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Here is my take on rejection emails, and such:
Send a rejection notice, 50% of the time you get an email back saying "but my site is fine" or "other people listed it" or "your rules are too tough". I don't have enough time in a day to get into a huge debate with each submitter who's site I reject. Imagine that I reject 50 sites per day. that is 25 more emails, 25 more replies, 25 replies to that, etc. (and I won't mention the volumes of bounced mails I got when I did send decline notices)
What is most frustrating is, in the end, most of those guys (and gals) who debate like crazy in email WON'T CHANGE THEIR SITE TO MATCH THE RULES ANYWAY, so it is a 100% waste of time.
I am like Cleo. If I get too many in the same cat, or too many of the same site, or too much similar stuff, I start rejecting sites that pass the rules but just aren't what I am looking for.
I get more than enough submissions that I list right now, I don't have to do anything to IMPROVE that number, I would just be rejecting more people.
A TGP side note: I have seen a few people on other boards selling TGPs and such that they run. They are using standard TGP scripts, etc. Many of them, when you look at the stats, are getting anywhere from 3 to 100 times more traffic to their submit pages than to their front pages.
What a waste!
Alex
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