Minor spat with a dmoz editor

I mentioned on the dmoz editor forums in this thread that Chainki existed as a merge of wiki and dmoz data. Very quickly I had this rather terse message slapped on the front page of the wiki:

This site is in violation of the Open Directory License [1] - although it links to the Open Directory Project - since it fails to have the correct links to categories on each page.

They're dead touchy about people not giving the attribution to their site correctly. And with good reason; they grant people the right to use the content in any way they wish and all they ask is that sites put an attribution at the bottom of each page. Fair enough.

And in fact I had put the attribution but a small error in putting the code in production meant that the attribution looked right at a glance, but an eagle-eyed dmoz editor spotted in an instance that it wasn't quite right.

From the full story, Violation of the ODP licence?, you can see that it took me about 6 minutes to fix it. Not bad responsiveness eh?

And at least someone visited the site and bothered to comment. As a webmaster there's nothing worse than having your site ignored.