Do you still submit to dmoz?

[Bill]

Originally Posted by JD

Those were the days.
JD

Oh yeah, those were the days, it used to be you could base a whole business on dmoz alone.

Not so much now.

A while back they did this wierd housecleaning thing - thousands of sites removed with no rhyme or reason i could detect. I still have many sites there - but tons were removed. Old sites that were dmoz dirty with crappy old content were kept, while newer sites with big fresh content were dropped.

Some of their reviewers ripped thru there with chainsaws, but unevenly, as always happens with dmoz.

What that means is you can't trust the place, but if you keep track of your submissions (because you don't want to double submit a site, and you have to find the cats with active reviewers), it makes sense to try to sub there. (when and/or if you can ever sub again)

But, some reviewers, in some cats, didn't seem to like linklist freesites, the ones with recips.

[JD]

Originally Posted by Bill

Oh yeah, those were the days, it used to be you could base a whole business on dmoz alone.

Not so much now.

A while back they did this wierd housecleaning thing - thousands of sites removed with no rhyme or reason i could detect. I still have many sites there - but tons were removed. Old sites that were dmoz dirty with crappy old content were kept, while newer sites with big fresh content were dropped.

Some of their reviewers ripped thru there with chainsaws, but unevenly, as always happens with dmoz.

What that means is you can't trust the place, but if you keep track of your submissions (because you don't want to double submit a site, and you have to find the cats with active reviewers), it makes sense to try to sub there. (when and/or if you can ever sub again)

But, some reviewers, in some cats, didn't seem to like linklist freesites, the ones with recips.

Hmmm, sounds like not much chagned there over the years then. It was the most extreme case of 'vested interests' there, with the reviewers having a pile of their own sites in the category that they work for. It always seemed to me, the most basic and simple way to clean that sort of stuff up was to have the editors not being adult webmasters, meaning, if they were going to work there, then then couldnt have an adult site, as then its too easy to rip the system off themself. Or even make it that each reviewer is only allowed X amount of adult sites, they could do that with all webmasters to make it fair.
Oh well, that was back in the times when AOL search came straught from Dmoz, I dont think thats the case anymore.