Dynamoo - 9:35 am on Apr 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

Any voting system depends on getting enough traffic to make it meaningful.. and here is the problem with sites that require interactivity - they only attract visitors if they already *have* visitors. Slashdot and Webmasterworld are interesting because they're *busy*. The same is true of visitor-ranked lists, you have to have enough votes to make the system meaningful.

DMOZ data is a good starting point though. Both Google and Alexa take the data and do interesting things with it. If you're clever about processing the RDF dump and merging your own data, then you can add sites, change the ordering, remove sites or whatever at will.

Imagine, for instance, an ODP with all the Geocities and Angelfire sites (etc) removed. That would remove a big chunk of cruddy popup infested sites. Remove parts of the directory that aren't relevant and stick to various themes (e.g. Computers) and it gets easier. Allow visitors to add directly to your directory as well as the ODP, maybe for a small one-off fee and it gets interesting.