hutcheson - 3:53 pm on Jul 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

gpmgroup, I've spent quite a bit of time (over the past few years) thinking about something like what you suggest. But ... we have to face the facts: it's a solution looking for a problem.

What do you call someone with a passion about a subject, who is capable of earning the trust of the ODP volunteers?

WE call them "editors." They may also do other things, but if they show that they can be trusted, and they're doing a significant amount of work, then we don't want them "suggesting sites more efficiently from the outside", we just want them "just adding the sites."

And there simply aren't enough people who can't (or won't) be editors, and yet still fit the profile of "people who can be trusted to give good information of the kind the ODP wants."

So, you might as well spend your time figuring out how Martians can use the Mars Rovers' communications systems to access dmoz.org. You may come up with a clever, brilliant, or even elegant solution. But you can't find a problem to go with it.