Woz - 10:50 pm on Oct 3, 2007 (gmt 0)

For the record, I am simply acting as Devils Advocate here.

A
>>>Resubmitting ~ tagged as a recent submission
>>competitors to keep submitting ~ end of the submission list?

The reason I ask this is that the implication has always been that resubmitting to DMOZ would move your site to the end of the list again which would therefor affect the review time-line. Are you saying that this would definitely not be the case? You say that "editors don't EVER _have_ to look at suggestions in any order." But then, perhaps some editors could be in the habit of always looking at submissions in order which would mean then that there is the possibility that competitors could bury a competing site in the queue by continually resubmitting.

So I guess the real questions here are:
1) Does resubmitting a site reset the submission date or once a site has been submitted are all subsequent resubmissions ignored?

B
>>unlistable, ~ resubmitting it ~ reputation
>competitors ~ bury a suite of sites owned by the same person

Again, acting as Devils Advocate here, the implication is that once a site has been deemed unlistable then continual resubmission of that site could flag the site owner as a spammer and could then affect the possible listings of other sites owned by that entity. If so, this could lead the door open to unscrupulous resubmission by a competitor in an attempt to taint the value of all sties owned by the original entity. Let's face it, it is a Dog Eat Dog world online and competitors sometimes take drastic actions to achieve their own goals at the expense of others.

You say "I don't know why you'd want to stuff your OWN reputation as a site submitter ~ I'm not going to set up a protocol to stop you."

But then any competitor wanting to do so would (could) probably take actions to guard their own identity such as alternate IP addresses, engaging others to submit from other IPs/Countries, and so on. IE., if a competitor was serious about this it would not be too hard to try and taint reputations within the submission list whilst protecting their own reputation.

So, I guess the real questions are:
1) Is it possible to taint one's own reputation by continually resubmitting a site that has been deemed unlistable?
2) Would that affect other sites owned by that entity?
3) Is it possible for a competitor to taint another's reputation for the purposes of affecting that entities sites?
4) If so, what protocols would/could be put in place to prevent this.

Again, I must state that these are not actions I would take myself not condone, I am simply suggesting their possibility and wondering what can be done to prevent them.

Onya
Woz