zoltan - 12:58 pm on Jul 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

I can only talk from my own experience. Yes, we do have ODP, although it is highly customized with some of our links. But I repeat: ODP is only about 10% of our entire website, it is just an addon.
The rest of the site is user submitted and we do not even post links to members' sites (except a few site sections).
"I have a strong hunch that we're going to be taking a closer look at sites that are just scraper sites, or throwing up a copy of the ODP with no value added."

If what we have done is considered "no value added" then I am lost. We still rank high on yahoo and msn only google dropped us completely.

And one more thing. I have another similar website from 2001 which is totally abandoned by us since we did launch the new site in 2002. Hence, this website ranks #1 for a very competitive term in the last 3 years! No matter what happened, it was not affected by search engine fluctuations at all! And, just to mention, I ftp to this site about once in 4-5 months just to do minor changes... (15 minutes work).