Would these sites be accepted?

[gaydemon]

I was just about to try and start submitting some of my sites to the larger link lists but will probably not even try.

Most of the link lists asks you to choose a specific reciprocal link button based on what type of content, while I can see why they want that, its totally impractical and not possible to do if you try and create a larger amount of good free sites.

not only that, half of the reciplinks (HTML) are so old and bad HTML that it would break my xhtml designs.

It just seems to me, that the whole link list and submitter relationship is so one sided, making it very difficult for the submitters.

The rules also are strict but fail to address the issue with design and looks, Ive seem some pretty horrible looking sites which I would never want to list. They do comply to the rules though..

Sorry, thats my moan..

So what I wonder is it really worth it? Is the traffic so great that it makes up for all the extra work it takes?

How much traffic can you expect to a single listing, and for how long?