DMOZ Listing, if you spam can it be taken away?

[deanril]

I know a couple sites that are heavily spaming, lots of proof, would a DMOZ editor for a section say, lets get him off of our Directory? Or would they say this is none of our business?

Reason being, the weight carried by the listing helps the offending site, also they are ranking and not showing the content they are ranking for, thus spaming, but below their serp is the google listing, which is actually the dmoz listing...... bah, I think you get what I mean. : )!

[kctipton]

Sounds like something for the internal ODP forums.

Define "spam." Define "taken away."

FYI, ODP officially could care less about "rankings."

[deanril]

Taken away: meaning do not list the site.

Spam, I sent you a sticky, hope you dont mind, with the info, and what I thought was Spam.

[John_Caius]

If a site has user-readable, unique, useful content that is appropriate for the category where it is submitted then dmoz will list it. A dmoz editor should not reject a site on the basis of poor design, hidden text or any other form of Google spamming technique, unless this impacts in some way on the user's experience. So if there is only one sentence of visible text on the page, the decision as to whether or not to list is based on this one sentence, regardless of the ten sentences in white text on a white background. Equally the editor may choose not to list a site that is so poorly designed that it is very difficult for a user to use, for example none of the images load, plenty of broken links, incomprehensible spelling and grammar.

dmoz editorial decisions should be entirely independent of Google ranking issues.

If a site's content has changed to something that is no longer appropriate for the category where it is listed, e.g. a domain redirect to a shopping directory, then there is a specific thread at Resource Zone (see this forum's charter) to report these cases. It's in the Abuse Reporting forum.

Hope this makes things clearer. :)

[kctipton]

Sounds to me like Google's being abused. Isn't there a link to send them spam reports?

[heini]

>Isn't there a link to send them spam reports

Yes, there is. And contrary to popular belief this link does not start with www.webmasterworld.com :)

Seriously, please take your reports to the appropriate addresses, which are at the engines.