The most recent 20 comments posted to Electrolite by Linne9a Anglemark:

What bothers me mostly about iblist is that they are so focused on rating books. I liked Alexlit (which might still be out there, I haven't visited it for years) and its ratings system that let you rate books you'd read and get recommendations based on the ratings of other people; however, I think it's a bad idea to have a database that purports to be a ratings db and a bibliographic db all at once.

And as a librarian, I am decidedly not impressed by the "Submit" form. But it's very early days yet and they will hopefully improve upon it.

> Our claim was that ODP's open nature left it
> wide open to abuses such as people
> associated with commercial Web sites
> editing their competitors out of the director,
> or people with political or ideological
> agendas marginalizing their opponents
> through creative listings and categorizations.

Being a grassroot ODP editor myself I don't know much about any power struggles that may or may not exist, but the ontology is being constantly and (I think) freely discussed; being married to an ODP meta editor I have an inkling of the effort that goes into stopping the kind of abuse you mention above. Of course it still happens, but I don't think it's quite fair to say that the directory is wide open to it.

Besides, large parts of the directory have nothing to do with commercial or ideological sites anyway. Oh, and good, unbiased editors are always needed :-)

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