DMOZ Editors Are Laughing at Your Submissions Behind Closed Doors
Today I present a curious example of abusive DMOZ Editor behavior. When you become a DMOZ editor you gain access to the editor forum. In that forum is an area called The Penguin Cafe. In the Penguin Cafe is an extra long thread of DMOZ Editors ridiculing your site submissions.
Some of the editors that are caught with their pants down ridiculing innocent webmasters are among the most vocal in web forums. I have chosen not to publish their names because this is not about specific individuals, but about a culture of abusiveness at DMOZ in general.
Yes, there is humor in some submissions, but frankly I was dismayed to see well known editors not only ridiculing submissions, but actually deriding webmasters for submitting their sites.
The following are screen shots from the DMOZ Editor Forum (click on the thumbnails for a larger version).
I can show you more extreme examples of ridicule by DMOZ Editors, but I don't want to spark the DMOZ equivalent of the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal.
Some of the editors that are caught with their pants down ridiculing innocent webmasters are among the most vocal in web forums. I have chosen not to publish their names because this is not about specific individuals, but about a culture of abusiveness at DMOZ in general.
Yes, there is humor in some submissions, but frankly I was dismayed to see well known editors not only ridiculing submissions, but actually deriding webmasters for submitting their sites.
The following are screen shots from the DMOZ Editor Forum (click on the thumbnails for a larger version).
I can show you more extreme examples of ridicule by DMOZ Editors, but I don't want to spark the DMOZ equivalent of the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal.
