Webwork - 3:14 pm on Jul 9, 2007 (gmt 0)

Hello chandubhai and welcome to the Directory Forum.

You likely have noticed that I have significantly changed the title of your post. I hope you don't mind. I prefer to have a dialogue about DMOZ/ODP that is cast, in most circumstances, in positive proactive terms: "What to do?" not "Why is it so bad?"

In your case I think you raised an interesting issue for discussion but cast it in terms that were likely to bring out more flamming posts than anything else.

It is a very interesting question though.

IF DMOZ is "so bad" then why is it that no other attempt to supplant it has ever taken hold in the past ~5+ years that it has been the de facto Google approved "directory of authority".

If it's so bad then why hasn't there been a ground swell movement to build a better mouse trap, so to speak?

Is it in the nature of whiners, whingers or complainers to go no further than to criticize? If it's so easy to "do it better" then why aren't they organizing themselves to do it better?

If so many folks are so displeased what's stopping them from doing DMOZ better than DMOZ?

Why isn't there a better version of DMOZ if it's so bad the way it is?