BIZ-GIANT Posted September 8, 2006 Posted September 8, 2006 Hello.... I had a question for you guys..... I have recently seen a spike in copy cat sites that are trying to be identical to DMOZ either by looks or catagory stucture. Was wondering what editors think about this & why do you think its happening. Thank you malcolm
Meta hutcheson Posted September 8, 2006 Meta Posted September 8, 2006 Editors are editors because they're interested in the unique. Copycats may be stupid, greedy, unethical, or malicious -- all that doesn't matter. What matters is not that they are boors, it is that they are BORING: with all the gormless twits wandering free, who cares why any of them do what they do -- just so they do it in someone else's yard? There are many marketroid forums, where style is everything (and substance is boring), where manipulating motives is a focus (and unmanipulated information is puzzlingly irrelevant). They might be keenly interested in this kind of question.
BIZ-GIANT Posted September 8, 2006 Author Posted September 8, 2006 Hello... Sorry to bore you hutch with irrelevent subjects, the main reason of the question was to bring some life into this forum from the editers as well as to satisfy my curiosity, forgive me for my ignorance. It does tend to feel like a morgue when the only questions answered or asked are "Am I In" and/or "Why did i get rejected" wouldnt you agree? But i will try my best to ask more relevent questions. Learn to enjoy life, Its not all about work all the time. thanks malcolm
Meta hutcheson Posted September 8, 2006 Meta Posted September 8, 2006 It's not the QUESTION that's irrelevant. The answer is "what do you think about X" -- and the ANSWER is "I think X is supremely irrelevant -- because of Y." An awful lot of what happens on the internet is irrelevant to me. And it is possible that there are people in the world to whom the significance of my internet contributions may not be readily apparent. That doesn't matter: I can find some community that will share almost any interest. And, you know, there's a whole world of people whose sole purpose in life is to develop counterfeit versions of all kinds of websites -- personal sites, business sites, public-interest sites -- for their own ulterior motives. And they swarm, like rabid lemmings. As soon as Joe Search-Engine-Spammer finds that counterfeiting technique "Q" doesn't work any more, what does he do? He goes to all the webmaster forums and talks that technique up "to teh moon". And next thing you know, all his gullible competitors are wasting time trying to imitate technique "Q". But from the ODP community standpoint, it doesn't matter what ulterior motive the counterfeiter has -- whatever it is, he can't have shared our interests, or he'd just link to content rather than aping it.
Skeletje Posted September 8, 2006 Posted September 8, 2006 Hello.... I had a question for you guys..... I have recently seen a spike in copy cat sites that are trying to be identical to DMOZ either by looks or catagory stucture. Was wondering what editors think about this & why do you think its happening. Thank you malcolm They are doing it to score in google, get high page rank etc.... Those attempts are kinda useless because google will punish them for copying content.
The Old Sarge Posted September 9, 2006 Posted September 9, 2006 Hello.... I had a question for you guys..... I have recently seen a spike in copy cat sites that are trying to be identical to DMOZ either by looks or catagory stucture. Was wondering what editors think about this & why do you think its happening. Thank you malcolm Ummmmm. Imitation is the highest form of flattery? The Old Sarge War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stewart Mill
BIZ-GIANT Posted September 10, 2006 Author Posted September 10, 2006 hello... Thank you for your imput hutchenson I understand your point better now thank you for sharing. Skeletje I have read the same thing that google does punish for cheap immitations and wanna be replicas. I guess they will see the results when google hands out its report cards...lol Sarge Your probably right my friend,though i think they may be trying to get high markings with google or trying to get Dmoz traffic coming thier way but in the end they will be punished and possibly those who joined. giz I can agree with that as that is what it is. Thanks guys malcolm
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