buckworks - 2:12 am on Jul 22, 2007 (gmt 0)

Justice, of course, demands that abusive submitters be punished.

Hutcheson, no one in this thread challenges the fact that there are abusers, but your apparent assumption that everyone who would like to be listed in DMOZ is an abuser is both arrogant and uninformed.

The people complaining in this thread are not talking about abuse. At least some of us are talking about ordinary, ethical, reputable companies with attractive, useful, LISTABLE sites (have I described that well enough so you can't twist it?) who have made well-constructed, one-time-only, by-the-rulebook submissions that are ignored for years.

No one expects perfection, but it's not unreasonable for the public to expect an organization to strive for honesty in the claims it makes about itself.

It's IS unreasonable for people like you to imply that people are abusers for simply asking the organization to either live up to its own claims, or else to make more modest claims.

75,151 editors? Posting that number on the home page without any qualification is seriously misleading.

The Definitive Catalog of the Web? That's an even more inflated claim. Either start living up to it or change it.

Someone who only visits this and other "professional webmaster" forums is really going to be out of touch.

Hutcheson, you should know that ad hominem attacks are one of the primary logical fallacies.

You learn that if you think it's important enough to do, you shut up and do it

Yep. But it certainly can't be done through DMOZ, it seems.

Because if you try, you'll be labelled an abuser.