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To be fair, I appreciate the technical effort it takes to build and maintain a directory like this. It isn't lost on me that many people like it. Kudos to the author for creating this. I absolutely don't mean to be negative about it.

But that shouldn't stop me from sharing my experience as a user. That it feels frustrating when I spend time making a bunch of submissions and I never hear anything back. But yeah, it's their website and their rules. Yes, it's one person making the decision. Yes, it's personal. I understand all that.

I was more interested in finding something less personal and more community-ish. where the power to add or reject submissions does not lie with one individual. Wouldn't that be nice?

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>I was more interested in finding something less personal and more community-ish. where the power to add or reject submissions does not lie with one individual. Wouldn't that be nice?

So, Hacker News?

Otherwise, be the change you want to see. if you haven't hit critical mass, the "community" will likely be 1-2 people getting he community off the ground anyway. How and if you want to scale from there will vary based on the ones managing the site.

We aren’t users here though; we’re visitors.

Great point, but why call it a directory then rather than someone’s personal recommendations?

There's no TLD for the latter.

I’m sure there’s plenty you could find that would work. Or bobslist.com, don’t let your dreams be dreams.

>I was more interested in finding something less personal and more community-ish. where the power to add or reject submissions does not lie with one individual. Wouldn't that be nice?

This would be overwhelmed with AI slop within days.

> This would be overwhelmed with AI slop within days.

Why so? What's the logic? With ooh.directory, one person is curating it. With a community project, 10 people may curate it. What makes 10 people curating the list more susceptible to slop?

I think the challenge would be picking those 10 people, in a way that is satisfying to you and everyone. (Is there a good way to find 9 like-minded people on the internet who have spare time?)

And to prevent commercial and political interests from joining the community, and later overwhelming the original core team.

I think you're asking the author to organize a structure like Wikipedia, with talk pages and topic experts, which would be a significant undertaking.

This I understand very well. It wasn't my question though. No, I wasn't asking anybody to organize a structure like Wikipedia. I was challenging the parent's comment where they said:

>> This would be overwhelmed with AI slop within days.

So I asked:

> What makes 10 people curating the list more susceptible to slop?

I think a 10 person project would be less susceptible to slop than a 1 person project because more people can catch more slop or so I think. So I really wanted to understand why the grandparent thinks a 10 person project would be more susceptible to slop.

Have you looked at MetaFilter? I've been a lurker there for years, but have never contributed so I don't know what that process looks like. But their tagline is "Community Weblog". It might be worth checking out.

I've only submitted a few things, but never seemed to face a selection process. I think the low paywall is the only barrier.

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