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Originally Posted by Tamashi
Hey.
I had submitted my website to DMOZ a couple of months ago. That they were slow I knew, but what happened today was really.... interesting to call it.
Someone who claimed to be an editor of DMOZ contacted me and asked me for money to get listed into the directory, which I found very odd. He said he would charge $250 to list me immediately. He also had to point out, that if I'm not willing to pay, my website won't get listed for a while, if ever. While $250 might sound "reasonable", I refused to pay for it, as DMOZ is a free open directory and this is pure corruption from the editor's side.
Declining a website I can understand for various reasons but corruption? Seriously, by all means - do they get away with it? Is there a way we can report this to DMOZ themself?
After looking around on Google for a bit, there were quite many subjects about DMOZ Editor corruption, what about you? Did you ever run into a case where you were being charged a sum of money by an editor to get listed?
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Lol, yep, that's DMOZ alright. You can't report it either because you'd just be reporting it to other corrupt DMOZ editors. All DMOZ editors are corrupt in one form or another, whether it's by taking bribes, denying their competition, listing their own sites, or listing friends. Best thing you can do is either try and become an editor so that you can list your own sites or just avoid DMOZ altogether. DMOZ is essentially one big cluster fuck of shit.