New free site format (version 1.5)

[Greenguy]

Let me sum all this up, because I think this is taking up way to much of everyone's time.

I did not read what Kit posted as something that was up for discussion. I read it that he & the people over at Master-X were going to change how Free Sites are laid out. The discussion about this had already taken place on the other board, as Kit posted a link to 200+ posts on the topic.

Yes, my ego tells me that anything to do with Link Lists & Free Sites should be discussed on this board & involve myself as well as many others. Call me what you want, but I think that 11+ years doing this & only knowing of about 5 other people doing what I do for longer (months longer than me, not years) entitles me to be involved in a discussion like this from the beginning & not 9 thread pages into it.

Based on those 2 things, hopefully people can see what I was so fucking angry. If not, then so be it - call me an asshole

The 2nd part of this is Kit's Free Site v2.0, which is basically this v1.5 with galleries added to it. This is a hub. It's a fake TGP. It's a list of your own galleries where you trade links with other people. This is not something new. This is an existing marketing method that this board, especially MrMaryLou & On The Bench, have preached for the last 5 years.

Now, had Kit come in here & stated that he wanted to list the hubs of webmasters that fit into a list of rules, no one would have complained a bit. In fact, people would have jumped for joy, because everyone building Free Sites probably has pages like v2.0 sitting on their servers.

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Even though I think the presentation of v1.5 & v2.0 has sucked ass, I think everyone can admit that without it, this big open discussion would not have taken place (or at least pushed the discussion wide open)

I would ask that Useless get the ball rolling on Link Lists that will consider accepting Free Sites with a warning page that links to 2 or 3 gallery pages (no main page) Let's call them v1.75 Free Sites (or whatever the fuck you want to call them).

I'd also invite Kit to start a thread about trading links with hubs over in the Link & Traffic Trading forum.