RandomDot - 1:59 pm on Oct 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

Again - if you want to bury your competitor some way and submit their sites to the directory a thousand times under different names, descriptions and so on - please go ahead - it will be reviewed and edited and crosschecked on the directory like anything else. But perhaps Dmoz should do the wiki trick and log all ip adresses on submissions. Could be fun ;)

A few things which is usually done with a listing: Is the link already listed in the directory? - if yes - where? - furthermore - is the submission received relevant to the category i'm editing or does it perhaps belong in a more general category or a sub category? Should I contact the other editors of the other categories and discuss it with them if that is the case and suggest the website in question to be moved to a more general category and the other links removed - again... the bliss of bureaucracy.. there's alot of options.

Please remember, DMOZ is not a competitive environment - it's a cooperative and its about providing some good resources to the visitors of DMOZ and users of it (yes, there's users, you know) - and if a site is worth having in the directory - it'll be added. What are you going to do with the submissions again? Add a good resource? Please do :) Perhaps the B2B site won't be listed in the general category, perhaps another category which fits the purpose of it more .. or a sub category - again - it's harder to get a website listed in the top level categories because the criterias for listing them there are more.. general... but that's for the editors to decide, not you or your competitor. Think it's a try at the "Neutral point of view" - like a judge in a football game, right? :)