Re:Waterfalls of the Great Lakes Region and Beyond
by zozbot234 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @07:12AM
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> I know it would get gamed really, but what if there were an injected "related-sites" link list as an extension, that drew from a curated directory?
A federated curated directory, perhaps with an emergent shared vocabulary for tags/categories/etc. (similar to the Wikipedia-centered naming guidelines for wiki pages) might work. The DMOZ model wouldn't scale in the modern web, with its rampant contentiousness around politics etc., and even the original DMOZ broke down because of corruption, with websites having to pay category "editors" for listings.
A federated curated directory, perhaps with an emergent shared vocabulary for tags/categories/etc. (similar to the Wikipedia-centered naming guidelines for wiki pages) might work. The DMOZ model wouldn't scale in the modern web, with its rampant contentiousness around politics etc., and even the original DMOZ broke down because of corruption, with websites having to pay category "editors" for listings.