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Originally Posted by martty
If people are selling a site and using its DMOZ listing as something to get a better price for the sale, why should they not delist it?
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Uh, because they listed it. Is DMOZ open for listing sites or not?
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Originally Posted by martty
(Besides, who is stupid enough to pay more for a site that has a DMOZ listing!)
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UH, stupid? Who said paying more?
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I also doubt it gets delisted. Most likely what is happening is the site is removed from public view for a further review at a later date to see if any hijack has taken place. If not, it will probably be back on public view at some stage.
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Yeah, uh huh, sure, we believe you. (Where are YOUR facts?)
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Originally Posted by martty
Some may see that as lame, I see it as a good quality control means to prevent the selling of domains based on the potential to hijack a domain listing just to get a DMOZ listing (and threads complain about that happening!). Given how many hijacks happen of sites that are listed in DMOZ (and the complaints about that), I would have thought such a pro-active stance by DMOZ would have been applauded!
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No, it is not appreciated. They have so much 'pro-activity' going on by a select club, that it is usless as much as it's service is needed. We are saddled with wanting to clean it up because it hurts us. All the people willing to put out the effort to help clean it up and support it is being ignored. That makes them stupid. Any reasonable web professional sees DMOZ as a putrid burden.
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Originally Posted by martty
The paradoxical thing is we have this thread complaining about it.
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Huh? paradoxical? complaining?
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Its just as likely to see a thread bashing DMOZ if a domain was sold and it kept a listing that was hijacked!
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How can DMOZ know if a listing was hijacked or not?
If they responded in a reasonable fashon to the owner of the domain,
maybe they could find out from him if it had been hijacked or not.
If DMOZ used decient algo's and methods, listings couldn't get hijacked.
You seem to have the hots for DMOZ. Most think everyone associated are a joke, are you?.
DMOZ is disgusting, and most of your assumptions are not only wrong, but you TOO show little or no facts.
He said "add to that the stories about volunteer editors requesting payment to list"
Uh, he said "the stories', he never claimed that the payments were facts.
You need to get off your jag with DMOZ and be a bit less defensive.