If You Were Inventing the Link List Today...

[Cleo]

A lot of reading in this thread... I skimmed through it.

I always thought that having a LL where users could rate and comment about the links would be good. Users can over at my tube but never do so I guess not. Still it would be something that I would try if I had the time and the desire to spend hours getting a new script up and running.

Surfers want quick access to what they are looking for.

[Useless]

Originally Posted by Cleo

I always thought that having a LL where users could rate and comment about the links would be good.

I've had rating and commenting at Perv forever. Hardly anyone comments. Those who do, leave weird, sometimes sick comments. Not difficult to police though. The people who use the rating system (1-10 stars) almost always rate free sites really low.

I think the perfect thing to link to, for both surfers and SE's, is a hybrid gallery. You'd have a full text blog post on one side of the page and thumbnails on the other. Or any combination of heavy text and images. The SE's would get their text content and surfers would get their visual content without having to go through page after page to find it. The free site might be the biggest weakness in the link list game. We link to an index page with 3 ads, 12-20 recip links, and little to no page content. There's no balance between links out and content.