Do Directory Script Harm Websites?

[ankur0412]

I cam across an article and was pretty surprised reading it. Here it goes:

The Internet has changed. Directory scripts used to be an effective way to build your site link-popularity and increase your rankings in search engines. Not anymore! As of now, directory software can bring a load of problems to your site, often irreversible. It was hard for us to understand and admit that, nowadays, links directory scripts should be avoided at all costs. Why? First, you would be losing your time - building links-popularity through directory-script reciprocation does not work anymore. Second, it is now official that directories are very likely to cause long-term or even permanent exclusion from major search engines, like Google. Third, directories are now nearly useless for end visitors and bring little value to your site.
Our recent observations (including panelizing of our sites by Google) prompt us to recommend that you not deploy link directories on your sites anymore and consider removing your current link directories (unless you're absolutely confident about their value)

Any comments?

[viraj_zaveri]

it's true,i had also got the mail telling this kind of thing.

No search engines are clearing doubts regarding this,so no option to believe it fact.

[sherryparker]

I don't agree with these views. I don't think so. Only some spam directories can be harmful otherwise directory service is good.

[Iago Naoise]

In computing, a directory, catalog, folder or drawer is an entity in a file system, which contains a group of files and or other directories. A typical file system may contain thousands of directories. Files are kept organized by storing related files in the same directory.