Identikit Directory

the best all rolled into one

[NFFC]

The recent comments comparing DMOZ to Zeal got me thinking, both directories do some things better than the other.

If you could roll all the positive aspects of individual directories into one identikit picture what would it look like?

I'll go first;

I'd add the design of DMOZ to the.....

[rfgdxm1]

I am both a Zeal and ODP editor. Zeal has the advantage that the editors don't have to worry about spam so much. The commercial cats the Zeal editors can't even touch, and in the mixed commercial/non-commercial cats if a Zeal editor spots a commercial submission the rules are to just whack it. However, as the ODP also allows commercial submissions, they get a lot. And, the editors can't just whack them, except in blatant obvious cases. ODP editors have to move the spam on along to other cats, where some editor over there has to worry about it, and whack it.

To me an ideal directory would have separate commercial and non-commercial branches. Thus, a volunteer editor who was interested in just non-commercial cats wouldn't have to worry about dealing with commercial submissions, except to whack any that float in. Putting non-commercial and commercial cats in the same branches tends to makes it impossible to be anything more than the lowest level editor without dealing with spammy, commercial cats down the tree.