Dmoz was good in theory - but then again so was communism
The original plan was to have a huge directory edited & maintained by humans (as opposed to spiders) Sorta like the biggest link list you've ever seen
But, like all a lot of good intentions/ideas, IMHO it became corrupt. Senior editors suddenly had heads that 7-7/8th hats would not fit
I may be biased, since I was thrown out od Dmoz during their big shake up - mostly because I was a "big" name in there under a different alias (blamo, btw - but then again, think of the hell I would have went thru if I was in there as "greenguy") & when they sacked 100 or so editors, my name was the only one anyone ever heard about.
Why was I booted? Because I held the sites that were currently listed to the same standards as my link list - plus I was of course adding my own sites - hell, that was the only reason anyone became an editor (aside from the feeling of power or having a bigger cock) No one 2was paid, so we added our own links to our categories.
But I guess I added one to many of my sites and/or removed one to many sites of what they called "my compitition" & thus, I was booted
I'm rambling.....