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leandroaliaj · #**460** (**permalink**) 02-27-2005, 04:04 PM

OK! OK! First of all, im a DMOZ editor. Second, yea, it HAS like a thousand flaws and yea, there exist corrupted editors, and yea, some of the editors are really rude and they suck, BUT!

There is really no alternative to DMOZ at the moment. I don't even wanna hear about JoeAnt or Zeal, i applied for both and frankly they are so idiotic that i couldn't add a single site. Unless im a complete idiot myself. They dont even come close to DMOZ. And if Google was using one of them, the number of people disgruntled would be at least double in my opinion.

There is this problem with DMOZ editors... THEY DONT GET PAID. Now many of you will say "great, why dont pay them say, 2 cents per edit". But then some of them may abuse it and that would be another problem.

As for the editor application thing, i've applied a month ago for another additional category and still no answer. =P

Also, i reported a meta once for abuse. You can all guess what happened to him (nothing =P). But of course maybe i should had contacted the admins directly, i guess it was my fault.

Oh well... DMOZ isn't perfect, but it's the best there is. I mean recently i listed my site in the MSN small business directory, and they even had me change the description because "it had too many keywords". Imagine, you pay for it and you cant even get the description you want... bah.

Oh and when you submit your web site, PLEASE make our lives easier and write a good description. I mean, you know that if it's not proper it will be changed. Why bother us? This could be an extra reason to get rejected you know... You don't want to piss off the editor. =P