[plateman]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

That's what I've been doing. A lot of people are allowing old domains to expire, or re-purposing the domains, so I just delete whatever links are crap and leave it at that. Hell, I have allowed a shitty domain with old free sites to expire. Like Bill said, some things aren't worth the hassle of keeping around.

The free site/link list business has changed so much in the last few years. I think many of us have softened up a lot in our approaches to issues like these. There was a time that I'd ban a submitter and delete every link he/she ever submitted if I found a single free site 404ing. Now, I'll check to see it's domain-wide or a submitter-wide issue, then delete only what's bad. With AndyS, who I loved as a submitter, I saw that a few of his domains had gone nuts up, and knew the rest would too eventually, so I had to delete all of his links. If he came back to the business tomorrow, I'd gladly allow him to submit again.

Submitters are no longer a dime a dozen. Maybe they never were, but we certainly used to act that way, didn't we? We have to admit, Bill - even Tommy - warned us that our prick-ish policies made it not worth being a free site submitter. Now that conversions have turned to shit, the submitters have no good reason stick around.

yeah I've been doing that, atleast they should post that the sites will go offline