I will preface this as ‘just a rant’, maybe I am having a bad day but something is digging at me this morning and I must express it the best way I can. My apologies in advance if this goes poorly. 
Something I have seen A LOT of over the last couple of weeks that needs clarification and needs done as soon as possible is the Myth that dmoz.org (a.k.a The Open Directory Project) exists to serve webmasters and site owners. I see post after post on forums that read:
“DMOZ must remember who its clients are”
“Without webmasters submitting sites, DMOZ would be out of business”
“DMOZ has a responsibility to webmasters”
The Truth of the matter is that DMOZ editors do remember who their clients are, those clients are NOT webmasters, site owners, promoters, etc. , and we won’t ever forget who we truly serve which are the visitors to the websites we list. Webmasters are more like suppliers and fortunately there is an abundance of suppliers available pushing their own versions. The editors have a particular type of site they are looking for – Those are the sites that offer the most ‘unique’ content to their visitors.
Sites submitted from the public interface are very important to many categories, and editors welcome and appreciate all sites that come through the public interface that abide by the Submission Guidelines that everyone agrees to having read when they submit their site. However everyone submitting a site must be aware that those ’submissions’ are merely ’suggestions’ to an editor that help them in their mission to seek out and list quality sites. Public submissions are but one small resource that we use daily to add and maintain categories. In some categories they are essential for editors to find good sites, but in many more categories the suggestions consist mainly of spam submissions and unlistable site suggestions so editors focus on other resources for finding sites.
Not that anyone really reads this blog anyway 
, but I have now vented a little and feel better. Just one more point I would like to make, contrary to the garbage spewed out by disgruntled site owners who couldn’t circumvent the listing guidelines and get their spam sites listed at DMOZ, a good source of information is found at http:resource-zone.com and if anyone is reading this message and would like more information I urge you to go there, read the forum FAQ first, and see if you can’t find out what you are looking for. Who knows, I might even see you there.
Until next time, take care!
