Where do deletes GO?
http://dmoz.org/forum/threaddisplay.cgi?t=Forum31/HTML/000732.html
Editors ponder what happens to deleted sites in the New Editors forum. 

You know you're addicted to ODP when...
http://dmoz.org/forum/threaddisplay.cgi?t=Forum3/HTML/000159.html
This popular thread, in ODP Culture, reached 500 posts on March 10, 2000 when editor tnt posted the following: "YKYATODPW...   .oO{ You get 500 } Let the dance of the smileys begin..." *followed by all of the new smilies*. 

New Smilies
http://dmoz.org/forum/threaddisplay.cgi?t=Forum21/HTML/001185.html
http://dmoz.org/forum/threaddisplay.cgi?t=Forum21/HTML/001243.html- Part II
Have you wondered how to make all the smilies that are cropping up in the fora? At the beginning of February, newwave announced we had more smilies in the Bugs and Features forum, and it took off from there.

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Spam Filters and Blocking Submissions Discussion
http://dmoz.org/forum/threaddisplay.cgi?t=Forum24/HTML/000401.html
http://dmoz.org/forum/threaddisplay.cgi?t=Forum24/HTML/000403.html- Part II
With the number of unreviewed climbing, Mitch starts discussion in the Meta forum about dealing with spam submitted to categories. 

Extensive animation-related proposals
http://dmoz.org/forum/threaddisplay.cgi?t=Forum2/HTML/000690.html
In Ontology, Voiceroy proposes a web animation category to centralize categories scattered throughout the directory. 

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