RandomDot - 11:03 am on Oct 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

There is no point for Dmoz to use the NoFollow tags - why in the world should it do that? - People in and behind Dmoz aren't building a website for search engines, but for the users of it - it's about making it into a directory of good resources on all the topics in the world you can think of...they're not a search engine listing every article in the world on any search - they're a directory of resources on various topics which is categorized accordingly.

For instance when I got into Dmoz and asked around in their forum about how things were done and so, I was told that the main job of an editor was not just to review submissions, but just as much to find noteworthy sites about the category in question and add them to the category - again - people are interested in the topics they edit - they like them - they usually find or know good sites here and there too.

There's alot of guidelines and bureaucracy about how to do things - merely to try to maintain as objective a resource as possible... not always possible with human beings - we all know the bad stories - but it's trying to do it - not a machine you know - and again editors aren't always that active and sites which are submitted the wrong place are sent to more fitting categories, which doesn't always have an editor.. it's not a 8-16 job you know and people aren't getting paid to do the job - they're not there for the money (unless it's one of those bad stories about editors who got kicked as fast as possible and won't ever get in again)

But again - it wouldn't change anything for Dmoz to add NoFollow tags - perhaps discourage most of the business world to submit their sites - but why would they do that - when they sometimes actually submit good and valuable sites for the directory? - Spam and bad submissions can be deleted and dealt with - and a note can be added about the domain name in question if they submit every week and so on.... so why in the world would they do it?