years ago i was the lottery editor for the lottery area. I did a good/fair job, my site was in there, but i also enter most of my competitors, based on the quality of our sites. Then some “gentlemen” from Quebec became an editor, destroyed the directory by clearly getting paid off for putting sites into the top section that belonged in various sub categories or outside of lottery entirely. I wrote him a few times, he never responded. I wrote the meta-editors and was told “work it out by yourselves”. So, i quit.
within a few months, they must have tossed him out, since there was no longer an editor. I then volunteered to do the section and was told, that i should start with a smaller section and work my way up (after explaining i had done the section for a year or so before). Good Luck, if I was about to prove myself to these morons. dozens of sites in queue for review, but they want me to work my way up. Well i could find better things to do, like laundry or clipping my toenails, rather than waste my efforts on that crap.
My conclusion, the vast majority of editors at dmoze are either:
a) corrupt, as many of my friends who paid their way into sections told me
or
b) zealots who hate any commercial site that is “good”, attractive, useful or effective.
Lou – How dare you insult goats like that. I’m sure there are no goats willing to stoop soooo low as to allow a dmoz editor to blow him! 