Adopt Wikipedia model - or die

[ishtar]

I would feel that any Tom, Dick or Harry could come in and add their site and disappear...

This happens a lot at ODP too, and it's not a totally bad thing as long as the sites they add are listed according the guidelines.

[makrhod]

Of course it is disappointingly selfish that they care only about their own site and not about building the category with other sites, but if 100 people behave in this way, theoretically the directory has grown by 100 sites, so ishtar's point is correct. But the qualifier ("as long as the sites they add are listed according the guidelines") is the key, and in my experience it very rarely applies.

 

For a start, if a new editor adds only their own site, they usually do not even bother to read or apply the Guidelines, so someone else then has to rewrite the title and/or description. In many cases the site may not be listable anyway, or perhaps it is in the wrong category, so more time needs to be spent re-reviewing or moving it.

 

Overall it is short-sighted, self-interested, and an inefficient use of scarce editor resources for someone to join solely to list their site.

[iiifly]

so when can we expect DMOZ to be back up running? Or is the answer still "we don't know, stop asking!"

[makrhod]

The Announcement itself explains that it will be updated when there is more information.

[giz]

>> The most active and information rich sites are not listed, <<

 

You have suggested them to the category though?

 

You could at least do that much to help...

[pennymachines]

Yes, I did, but they fell on deaf ears.

 

Interesting to revisit this thread which I started back in August 2005. I assumed it had faded into oblivion by now.

 

I was curious to see if the http://www.dmoz.org/Recreation/Collecting/Slot_Machines/ category had been updated or edited in the meantime. Apart from a dead link I reported last year, it hadn't. The six slot machine links are even less use now - the Liberty Belle Saloon sold its historical collection last Summer.

[dogbows]

 

I was curious to see if the http://www.dmoz.org/Recreation/Collecting/Slot_Machines/ category had been updated or edited in the meantime. Apart from a dead link I reported last year, it hadn't. The six slot machine links are even less use now - the Liberty Belle Saloon sold its historical collection last Summer.

 

That alone would not make the website of less use. Actually if that is the only site that provides information about the collection, I would suspect that it is just as useful, and perhaps even more so than before.

[pennymachines]

You have a point there DogBows. It's a virtual tour of a slot museum that no longer exists but maybe they'll leave it up.

Incidentally, the collection is covered in much greater depth in a book they produced: Slot Machines, America's Favorite Gaming Device.