RJ... i thought everything you posted was pretty much bang on and really did need to be said (asked...), its just that everything they responded with was simply "the way it is" with Dmoz... and there really is little that any of us can do to change it... less we all sign up in mass as volunteers ourselves and stage a mutiny... lol.
There is corruption every where in the real world... from the streets to our institutions and beyond... so i expect there to be a certain level of corruption within dmoz.
Dmoz is edited by volunteers (plain and simple), and as such everything they say is true... in that certain categories will virtually never be kept up to date, there will always be a huge back log of submitted (suggested... lol) sites, and the true value of such a directory for actually locating any current and authoritative information on any particular given topic (when compared to using an "effective" relevant query performed on any quality search engine available today...) will be in question, if for no other reason that the internet is "sooooo" dynamic (what with sites coming and going literally every second)... if they had 14k editors instead of the claimed 7k they still could not keep all 600,000 (claimed) categories up to date...
Sorry man... just figured you were kinda beatin a dead horse by the end of the first page... lol.
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