Are directory links against webmaster guidelines?

[HramayWasha]

What are the reasons for Google stating that directory, article submission, and bookmarking links are against the Webmaster Guidelines?

[HramayWasha]

You can't even recruit a link builder with experience in honey trapping for 'kompromat' without Twitter getting all upset when it's basically misogynistic to assume that all thechatrandom echat operatives are women.