Re: Is there a Conflict for Webmaster to be an Edi
I would bet that the vast majority of DMOZ editors are webmasters - who else would want to spend their free time that way?
Lots of people. Even without my little informational website for my side business I'd still be an editor.
In fact, becoming an editor on DMOZ is nigh on impossible, even though there are so many categories sans editors.
There are over 50k people who have become editors. Hundreds of editors are added every month. How is that "nigh" impossible?
I am a webmaster, and have been rejected. I know five other webmasters who have also been rejected along with the standard rejection blurb sent out by these self righteous adjudicators of web content.
Why in the world would you want to join such a club, then? If you think that you were rejected because you're a webmaster, then how can the "vast majority" of ODP editors be webmasters?
Getting a site into DMOZ is just as difficult, because the editors who are there are all webmasters jealously guarding their own website's position (and usually their sites can be found in quite a few different categories. I know of one site - which is one of my competitors - which appears on DMOZ five times! Clearly their webmaster is a DMOZ editor, or one of his mates is...)
Bull. Such abuse of editor privilege is strictly prohibited and thoroughly investigated.
If you feel there has been such abuse, report it at
http://inelegant.org/report-abuse/ (See also:
this thread )
My site is listed twice in the directory: Once in its appropriate topical category, once in the regional category for my town. While I do edit my home town, I have never edited the listing for my site. I don't even edit in the area in the topical category where it's listed. I have never asked any of my fellow editors to expedite the listing of or otherwise favor my site. Some of my customer's sites are also listed. I've never edited those. Some are also sitting in unreviewed with others.
I contend that the "vast majority" of editors are more like me than your paranoid "sour grapes" view.
I am currently waiting for a few of my sites to be listed in different categories - have submitted three times over the course of five months. Not one has been indexed.
Have you read any of the information here? Such a wait is not uncommon, especially in "spammy" areas of the directory. Also, each submission overwrites your previous submission, so if someone is working with things in date order, you have only succeeded in moving your sites down the list.
<edit>Fixed typo.</edit>
But, sure there's a conflict. Can you manage it? Will you be too tempted to do the wrong thing? Only you know for sure, but be warned that webmasters are assumed to know _exactly_ what they're doing whenever they are listing, titling and describing sites. You'd be allowed very little opportunity to say, "I didn't know that was the wrong thing to do."