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.
================= Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 1/24/07, Andrew Cates andrew@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).
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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