I’ve seen this before, with Looksmart. A few hiccups and folk start jumping ship. And then the management act like they don’t care, and wish they could jump too. And then we all notice folk leaving, and we leave as well, or at least just stop participating.

Apparantly editors have been unable to do their unpaid job* for the last month or more. And the job is getting worse, as cunning webmasters try to trick editors into listing them. But basically it is hard, tedious, boring unpaid work. Who has time for that?

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