I am just not going to bother anymore telling people why they didnt get listed. It is clear they DONT READ THE RULES!!!!
and when you spell out the rules they come back and have some excuse or imply you need to change your rules to fit their sites.
I know how hard it is to build a free site .. takes me at least 1 full day - I dont use any programs, templates or auto submitters and my html sucks - and everyone thinks their freesite is the best, perfect, prettiest, most clever site.. I know I think that about mine ... but that wont do me any good if I didnt read the rules to the Link Lists I am submitting to and end up breaking a rule or 2 - Sometimes you can get away with a few infractions... or bend a rule or 2 - and it will also depend on each link list's reviewers perception of what a clean free site should be - what I might consider a blind link might be passable for another reviewer and vice versa.
Either conform to the Link List rules or find somewhere else to get your site listed for traffic.