I sent you an email (couldn't get to the board earlier but got a boardtracker notice
) I declined because of the extra outgoing links... at that point I didn't go further into the site. The design although loud, wouldn't have gotten you rejected.
The thumbs and images could have been a rejection reason, but as I mentioned I didn't get that far. Being a smaller list, overused content is less of a factor for me.. clarity and quality would have been looked at more then that.
Hope this helps, you're on the right track!