Okay, okay. As a DMOZ editor I take it on the chin, particularly the
technical side there has serious issues.
But in fact that's a red herring. The point is in principle it is
relatively easy to maintain a long list via an bot+algo or a harvest or
whatever and implement using interwiki and a redirect site. And a nice
visible list that wiki-spammers can diff every morning is a compact
solution to the zillions of needles in a huge haystack approach. As I
said, the community can solve the list maintenance when the technology
to do one is sorted. A list has to be better than link by link.
So far on every other way that you've suggested, Greg, there have been a
series of fairly tough to fix problems. I don't think "the answer may
well fall out of a tree" is really going to find a way to implement
something which has been discussed for at least a year.
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Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 1/24/07, Andrew Cates
<andrew(a)catesfamily.org.uk> wrote:
[snip]
There are plenty of ways of
maintaining an adequate list for example DMOZ is a wikipedia partner
project and we could take all the links from non-commercial pages of
DMOZ as a 95% solution (then they can handle all the arguments).
[snip]
Anyone else find it deeply ironic that DMOZ would somehow be mentioned
as a solution to our spamming problems?
For more background on the current state of DMOZ:
http://www.skrenta.com/2006/12/dmoz_had_9_lives_used_up_yet.html