Should DMOZ switch to nofollow?

[Sarah w]

It's my feeling that if the ODP wants to progress honestly and without fear of corruption or malfeasance, they should simply add "nofollow" tags to their outbound links. This would let the world know that DMOZ is not about boosting link popularity, but rather about providing a good, human-edited directory for human users.

If we go back to a time when DMOZ's only purpose was to refer traffic directly, the directory would be in a much better position, and we wouldn't need an Open Directory forum...

Thoughts, opinions?

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[Andy]

I think that the dmoz domain is built into the google algorithm and incorporating the nofollow tag is not something dmoz will do since it's not their problem that some search engines may rate their listings very highly. Only the search engine should adjust it's algo if their is a problem IMHO.

[mic_comte]

 By the way, even if DMOZ adds a nofollow tag, like Wikipedia has done, are we sure Google will take it into account?

[Andy]

If they have done that then there will be no incentive to get listed in DMOZ since natural traffic from them is non-existent.

[SensoVision]

Maybe Google already ignoring DMOZ? As generally Google trying to make it's algo impossible for prediction and listing in DMOZ was pretty long as obvious factor influencing on algo...