cabbagehead - 3:42 am on Sep 29, 2007 (gmt 0)

This thread is getting silly. It seems several people here seem to believe they absolutely know what is absolutely clear ... and yet I see several of thse sorts of posts directly contradicting each other. ;-)

Well bottom line - if there is this much confusion then to anyone willing to consider the issue - it suggests there's a problem with the model, no? I mean, when we start talking about menutia points in the find print of the disclaimer etc ... how is that user friendly for the avg (or even the intermediate) webmaster who is just looking to promote their website. Someone who doesn't understand how all this is working but has a lot of ground to cover will not read the terms (in most cases) ... they'll just submit in all categories they think it might possibly be accepted to. Then when its not accepted a month later, they will submit it again. How many people who have a website to promote are really going to sit around studying these fine points of the DMOZ world?

So bottom line message to DMOZ in my mind should be: SOS - you have a serious usability problem! The blog and press relations are an excellent step forward ... but please do not stop there! :)