Another outrageous editor dismissal

[TheFog]

hxxp://dmoz.org/profiles/compostannie.html has had her editorship removed after slaving for DMOZ for 6 years.

hxxp://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=352189

Care to comment? Thank you.

[Joe]

Well, DMOZ IS falling apart from from its own heavy weight and egotistic editors. If this editor was one of the active and good editors, this this is further prove that this is a lost cause.

A new project will be rolled out soon at NoMoz.org which will address all those issues as they attempts to fix and offer a better alternative to this aging monster. Stay tuned.

[TheFog]

She was very active, and very good.

Another editor, gboisseau, also left, in solidarity.

robjones also left at that time for unspecified reasons. Euroka also left.

The internal forum is pretty dead.

The only people left are a few lone metas. Even they aren't working too hard.

I am not sure how nomoz.org or any other directory can avoid falling into this trap.

[Joe]

I am not sure how nomoz.org or any other directory can avoid falling into this trap.

That is too bad that they treat their good volunteers like this. Many people have said long ago that this concept of a closed project (though they claim it is open) with the majority of volunteers mainly sign up to add their websites, without any real incentive to do a good job, while at the same time the few good ones are being abused by metas and other editors. This was heading for failure long time ago, and I am surprised that it lasted this long.

The NoMoz.org concept as it was explained to me seems very promising, though it is not volunteer based, it promises to fix the most important issue in my opinion, which is to give the power back to webmasters and let them control how their website is listed. The issue of waiting time has also been addressed, among many other issues. The data will also be made available for free though not as a whole but in parts (categories) to avoid whole directory duplications. They will also be offering a great new twist to stand out from the crowd.

They will hopefully go live in beta within the next few weeks. I hope you'll keep an eye on it and let us know what you think here, so we can decide whether to promote it here as an alternative to Dmoz or not. We'll only promote it strongly if webmasters like you and I give it good reviews.

Cheers!

[TheFog]

You might find this article interesting:

hxxp://www.traffick.com/story/06-2000-xodp.asp

[Joe]

Yes, I am familiar with that article, and I actually posted it a while back here at the forums as well:
Trafik: Life After the Open Directory Project