DMOZ and the effects of their corruption!
As you all know DMOZ is one of the biggest web directory on the internet. Why? Because it’s free, everyone can submit his website and wait(and wait, and wait) for one of the dudes (so called editors) to accept them. Nothing wrong you say, but this f**king organization is so corrupt, that some of the editors will accept your website only if you pay them big cash. A nice example is when Shoemoney, was asked to pay 5000$ if he doesn’t want his link to be deleted. Of course, he didn’t pay and so his link disappeared from the famous directory. Another example is an ex editor, Joost de Valk, whose account was banned because he only wanted to know why Shoemoney’s link was deleted (you can find more info about him here). Also at this link you will see a lot of people who pay money and editors that accept to list their links in 1,2-10day.
Now I don’t know, but from from ALEXA rankings, the only thing that I can see is that DMOZ is going down and this is a fact that people have realized that something is wrong. With this in mind, their traffic rank now is 471 and with approximation I can say that next month they will go down to rank 1000. Besides that I think that 40% of the traffic is made by editors, funny no?
In conclusion I think that dmoz is corrupt from the core and extends to the editors and if you pay them a lot of money in one or two days you will be listed. F**k them, yahoo here I come !
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*** A nice example is when Shoemoney, was asked to pay 5000$ if he doesn’t want his link to be deleted. Of course, he didn’t pay and so his link disappeared from the famous directory. ***
Hello.
I like the way you republish a story that was debunked as pure linkbait several weeks ago. Have you even checked any of the “facts”. There are plenty out there.
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I think you will find that after he offered the ODP a bribe back in 2005 to get his sites listed, his stuff was banned from the ODP for good.
There are many sites that record the offer of that bribe. He has been aware of the ODP listing ban for at least a year. Several editors still have copies of correspondence.
Any claim, now, about a “threat of removal” is completely bogus. He already knows his sites will never be listed.
If you inspect archive.org to see if anything at all was ever listed, you will only find a feed URL that was in the ODP for a couple of weeks at the beginning of 2007.
It seems like one editor had listed it in spite of a “do not list this site” note being attached, and then another de-listed it a few weeks later to comply with the editor consensus about that site. That was a long time ago.
To prove your version of the story, go to archive.org and using the old archives find the link that was supposedly removed *after* the alledged extortion. Can’t find one? That’s because there was nothing to remove.
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I am amazed that this just gets reported by you and hundreds of other sites as: “Shoemoney Gets Extorted by DMOZ Editor”, without anyone adding “allegedly” to the post, or even questioning:
1. whether any sort of communication ever actually existed (unlikely).
2. whether said commiunication actually came from an ODP editor, or just from some random scammer (moot).
3. whether there was anything ever listed in the ODP that could have been removed (there wasn’t).
Blogoscoped does a good job of pulling it apart:
http://blogoscoped.com/forum/106601.html
Other people question other things about that site:
http://www.vanhara.com/2007/01/21/is-jeremy-shoemaker-aka-shoemoney-scam/
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*** Another example is an ex-editor, Joost de Valk, whose account was banned because he only wanted to know why Shoemoney’s link was deleted. ***
No, he didn’t *only* “want to know”. He was caught trying to help his friends get their banned sites listed against editor consensus. You’ll also find that the language used was not appropriate for civil communication.
thx for the info mate
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