? Redirecting 3 dmoz sites to the main site ?

This is probably more a question for staff, but anyway...

I notice there is:

http://www.dmoz.org and
http://dmoz.org and

http://www.dmoz.com and
http://dmoz.com

Which all have a pagerank of 9.

Any sane webmaster in a similar position would redirect at least the http://dmoz.org to http://www.dmoz.org and probably the .com's as well.

Who knows what the combined PageRank for these essentially 4 separate sites is, maybe you would get a 10?...

While some might say 9 - 10, makes no difference to the 'users of dmoz,' I think it would because the pages in dmoz which are pr0 or 1 or 2 might get a lift to 4 or 5.

So what? - well I don't see many editors in the very low PageRank pages, just calls for volunteers.

Ultimately we all want dmoz to go from success to success - this is just a suggestion.

The ODP doesn't care about Page Rank. And I really can't see us fussing with the URLs in order to help boost the PR of sites listed in us.

They all have the same pagerank because Google has already figured out they are the same site, not because each of them has that many powerful incoming links.

DMOZ has a different idea of what constitutes "strength." It is "good information, openly presented." It doesn't need to resort to alias-URL spamming, extorting customers, content management scams, or frivolous lawsuits.

There is great power in Truth. Just Truth. Not Truth artificially propped up by deception. Not Truth imposed by force. Not Truth bolstered by violence. Not Truth hoarded. Just Truth.