jimbeetle - 5:31 pm on Dec 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

Dealing with those editors...

You don't have to deal with them, it's enitrely up to you. Personally, I don't pay too much attention to DMOZ at all. Submit it, forget it.

But, back on topic as to the future of DMOZ.

I can't really understand all the comments about any commercial SE taking it over and monetizing it to any extent. There would be problem conforming to its original charter and, I assume, with the social contract.

And I think that the SEs, especially Google, really want an arms length relationship with DMOZ. Google takes enough heat from webmasters as it is. Would it really want to assume the blasts that are continually hurled at DMOZ?

Folks already complain about Google's virtual monopoly in search. How much more loudly would they complain if Google administered the Directory and a submission was not approved?

I'd say leave well enough alone. The editors appear to think that things, for the most part, are working the way they should. Hopefully the AOL Ops folks will take away a couple of lessons learned from this last inicident to at least avoid any future embarrasment.