theBear - 3:16 am on Jul 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

"One category- main shopping- is shrinking, despite the fact that this is a large and important category."

Yes that category is shrinking, is that in and of itself important or is that category even important?

Well that is debatable.

Let's see you take the old list and remove all of the sites that have gone belly up, add in the stricter rules about what gets listed and is it really a surprise that one of the more abused (from whatever direction) categories shrinks.

BTW, I don't give a hoot one way or the other about this topic.

I just think you need to look at it from more than the viewpoint of I have a site and .... therefor ....

If the category shrinkage is important but DMOZ isn't what is one to think, that DMOZ isn't important but why would a site owner want a listing if it isn't important (just don't attempt explaining that to a marketing type).