CRich, you have done a greet job of telling the truth and if anything you have been too kind to DMOZ but telling the truth very seldom wins you a popularity contest.

The 2 thread on the board and all the posting from the real webmasters showed that the majority agrees with you while DMOZ had no defenders except their own editors.

This is a sensative subject for editors since it threatens to stop the gravy train, so do not be surprised if they start to call you spammer. Very popular world with DMOZ crowd when they can not discuss the issues.

This is a great forum and while most users would discuss the issues in a logical and civilized manners, some of the moderators will just use name calling instead of discussions and delete the posts of people with different views.

I do not know shoebox or his views (since it gets deleted so fast that I did not have a chance to read it), or if I agree or disagree with it but any time that some one tries to censur and delete the opposing views there is something seriously wrong.

Democracy and free speech must be the corner stone of any serious forum since the forums are for discussion and exchange of ideas. I hope you will open the thread "in defence of DMOZ" very soon and let shoebox discuss his/hers opinions for all to see and judge since I could not find any posting rules that states " You shall not critisize DMOZ".