My goodness, Bill, that's a lot to digest.
1. Getting people to create sites which would be unique to my list would be the single most difficult suggestion to set into motion. If there was a large amount of established traffic, I could see people being motivated to that.
2. I like this, but a guy like me finds it difficult to find a bunch of trusted submitters. (I've been told that I tend to rub people the wrong way.) I do love my partner submitters at
Whoring though.
2a. I like the idea of filtered cat pages. (I like lots of pages.) Being that PS accepts a wider array of links, Ponygirl had long ago suggested that I create separate category pages as a way of filtering the content for those who may only want to see free sites, or galleries, etc. I did code the script to do that - and those pages are there in the background, but I never placed navigation to them due to the lack of content. My point being, filtering between trusted submitters and normal submitters wouldn't be a problem.
3. Chaotic linking is definitely what I want. I think I would just assume trust those special submitters with placing links to me on their word as tracking could be a pain in the ass. If I decided it was necessary, I could add a place on the script where the submitter could add the URLs where my links are present into the database and the bot could periodically check to see that they were still present.
4. The tags are a break away from standard categories, but there are so, so many of them. It could be difficult creating a sensible navigation system to lead surfers through the site. I'll have to give this much more thought.
4a. Oddly enough, a very light blog was a recent addition to the admin, but I haven't included my first post to the main page yet because I'm not happy with my miniature blog script. I'd like the tag clouds to pull from both the links and my blog posts, but I haven't gotten that far yet with the coding. My introductory post, by the way, is entitled "I'll be your Huckleberry."
4b. I may be one of the only, if not the only, list owner who shows that kind of trust towards partner submitters. You may recall a long while ago that I added a little feature to Whoring that gives my submitters their own page on the site. It allows them to add links to their sites, their affiliate coded links to paysites, a small blog, as well as automatically listing their last #many accepted links. Examples:
Mine and
Amateur Kink It hadn't occured to me to allow a submitter to create content for the main pages of a site though. That's a very interesting idea, Bill, and it's not one I'd fear implementing.
5. There was a time that I considered linking to the free sites from within their description, rather than the title, but I wasn't sure how submitters would feel about it. I feared they may think I was trying to hide their links, even though the intention was to link to their sites via a keyword phrase within a block of text. Submitters can be angry people too.
6. My ass isn't THAT hairy.
7. Oh, I can do messy. It's sometimes painful, but I can be messy.
8. Linkbait - That's what I wanted to do with the blog. Just be me and hope that surfers, webmasters, who ever - decide to link to my general idiocy. But I've never bothered doing a blog of my own because it always felt like such a waste of time. But then it dawned on me , who the hell am I kidding? I've been wasting my time on this shit for years. Why stop now?
Thanks for the suggestions, Bill. I see if I can implement some of those while trying to wrangle up a few trusted people who are willing to create content for the site.