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ABR...nice. Checked out Alexa lately? Where should we send the steak knives? : )On a serious note, we totally get the whole bloggers making stuff up about you for linkbait. Believe me, we get it. Best of luck to you guys moving forward and thanks for stopping by.
user recommend box" until we approve or ban them."Got it. Why do that without posting the context you outlined above somewhere in the SERP. You described it fairly well above. Seems posting even that amount of context as a hover to the suggested links header would clear up a lot of consusion and cut down on the reocurring "Mahalo is easy to SPAM" claims. Maybe..."BEFORE YOU CLICK - you should know these results have not been reviewed by any of our editors. They might be dangerous and we have no idea what they are or where they go. Mahalo!" And thanks ( again ) for the invite. But I think you have gotten the 4-5 editors you’re going to get with Pay Per SERP / iPods / tShirt offers. You also left WikiHow.com off the clone / influence list above. Great site full of how-tos. Have you tried recruiting volunteers out of there?
Mahalo is a neat site. 1/40 the size of DMOZ and growing. You all should be very proud. Some day you too might have THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of editors and the global reach of ODP. Then again, you might not. But hey....while you’re here and since you brought up the topic of Mahalo, SPAM and SPAM-ing...did you all ever fix that "auto-insert-submitted-links-as-top-suggestions-into-next-available-category" problem? quote below: "...appear on the sidebar submitted links automatically? Is there no human generated filtering for submitted links going on? The link goes up before they check it? And if there is human generated filtering how did they mistake my t-shirts site with a make-up site? Does this make Mahalo “spammable”? "I love the Hawaiin SPAM can BTW. Cheers.
Story: Oh my God Dmoz is Gone!!!!
All is right with the world again.Full story here: http://blog.dmoz.org/2007/09/26/the-search-for-dmoz/
"we can read all their commentary on how they’re doing such a great job and going to fix DMOZ. yada yada yada"The commentary will not always be a pep rally. The best way to change the way people feel about you is to listen."Is it disinformation that they don’t approve honest editor applications in favor of abandoned categories?"I think what you’re saying is there was a vacant cat that needs an editor and you ( the honest applicant ) were not accepted. This unfortunately can happen. Please try resubmitting. More information here: http://www.dmoz.org/help/become.html#how"at DMOZ pigs do fly"Hmmm...http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=pigs+do+fly
Story: DMOZ Blog - A little late?
Appreciate the commentary and the post.It is important for our community to have a voice and shoot down the routine and usually unfounded drivel that surfaces about ODP. Keep an open mind and stop by to let us know what you think.Also, check out the commentary in g1smd’s post: http://sphinn.com/story/6873
Story: Oh my God Dmoz is Gone!!!!
Not sure why every single page *but* the home page is indexed. We’re looking into it.
Story: AOL Staff’s DMOZ/ODP Blog Now Live.