August 31, 2007
DMOZ — yet another flame war
My latest thoughts about DMOZ and the ODP may be found in this blog comment thread.
The gist is:
- DMOZ has many problems, such as categories that are at least five years out of date.
- Newly, corruptly listed sites are NOT high on the list of problems.
- In fact, the attention paid to avoiding such corruption is a terrible drain on ODP resources.
- There are a lot of liars and/or idiots bashing DMOZ in the website owner community.
- robjones is a sarcastic jerk, but he’s our sarcastic jerk.
Or something like that. As I said, it’s a flame war …
Anyhow, I’m flying off on a two-week snorkeling trip Saturday, and should be much mellower soon.
Categories: Categorization and filtering, Directories, ODP and DMOZ, Social software and online media
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>>robjones is a sarcastic jerk, but he’s our sarcastic jerk.
How can I break this gentlyto you Curt? When you started posting at dmoz a lot of people thought I’d slipped in under a second login. lol. Have a good trip.
Rob
Oh no! The horrors!
The good news is that I’m sitting here on a lovely beach watching the pounding surf.
The bad news is that the main reason we bought a timeshare on this particular beach is the calm, clear waters that make for wonderful walk-in snorkeling. Hurricane Felix is screwing that up a bit this time …
Speaking of which, the thunderbolts have gotten close again, and I think I shall go indoors for a while …
CAM
The whole thing has become a soap opera.
Bottom line is DMOZ has to improve their system. There is a huge communication problem because there is no communication.
DMOZ will fall.
DMOZ is outdated I think. Contains broken links or not existing web links.
Oh my God !
Thank you for the info & discussions. I guess I was totally wrong because i’d frequently used DMOZ for my research. I should refer to other resources next time then.
LOL, Paul.
CAM