Greenguy's Board - View Single Post - Calling all honest linklist owners, I have something special for you.

MadMax · 2005-03-09, 12:54 PM

Well, I'm gonna jump back in here for a moment. I was doing a drive by yesterday when I posted and didn't read the entire thread until just now. I had no idea this sort of train wreck was brewing, so I'll take a moment to add my 2 cents.

First off, I send decline emails because my script does it automatically. I add reasons and comments because that function is integrated into my script, and for certain types of declines I offer second chance reviews. I have time to do this because I get a few dozen submits a day as opposed to several hundred or several thousand. I'll always send out emails but if I get to the point where I'm reviewing hundreds of sites a day I'll stop giving reasons because I simply won't have time. If my script didn't automatically generate accept/decline emails I wouldn't send them out because I wouldn't have time. Frankly, as a whole I think my submitters would rather have me focusing on driving traffic than writing emails anyway.

You've managed to come in here and piss off a lot of people that I respect as colleagues. These are people who have treated me as a member of their community since day 1 when I had no listings and shit for traffic, and what's more you're doing it by trying to tell them how they should run their own sites. This makes no sense to me. These people wouldn't be successful if they didn't know what they're doing, and competition for listings wouldn't be fierce if they didn't send good traffic. What is the point of intentionally pissing on people who would be happy to do business with a more civilized person? I just don't get it.

I review sites based on the sites, and blacklist for my own reasons as everyone does. I wouldn't decline a site just because of something I read on a board (and wouldn't have time to keep up with the unbelievable spreadsheets and databases that would be required to do so), but like everyone else here a submit that breaks the rules gets declined. With me, since I can and do put reasons in decline emails, when I decline someone four times in a row for the same reason I blacklist, because if they can't be bothered to read my explanations I can't be bothered to keep giving them, simple as that.

I'd still list any site that follows the rules, but neither of you has done anything in this thread but hurt your reputations; and if you don't think reputation matters ask Jay Servido.

Well, I guess that was at least 4 cents.

2005-03-09, 12:54 PM	#178
MadMax "Without evil there can be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometimes" ~ Satan Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Motor City, baby, where carjacking was invented! Now GIMME THOSE SHOES! Posts: 2,385	Well, I'm gonna jump back in here for a moment. I was doing a drive by yesterday when I posted and didn't read the entire thread until just now. I had no idea this sort of train wreck was brewing, so I'll take a moment to add my 2 cents. First off, I send decline emails because my script does it automatically. I add reasons and comments because that function is integrated into my script, and for certain types of declines I offer second chance reviews. I have time to do this because I get a few dozen submits a day as opposed to several hundred or several thousand. I'll always send out emails but if I get to the point where I'm reviewing hundreds of sites a day I'll stop giving reasons because I simply won't have time. If my script didn't automatically generate accept/decline emails I wouldn't send them out because I wouldn't have time. Frankly, as a whole I think my submitters would rather have me focusing on driving traffic than writing emails anyway. You've managed to come in here and piss off a lot of people that I respect as colleagues. These are people who have treated me as a member of their community since day 1 when I had no listings and shit for traffic, and what's more you're doing it by trying to tell them how they should run their own sites. This makes no sense to me. These people wouldn't be successful if they didn't know what they're doing, and competition for listings wouldn't be fierce if they didn't send good traffic. What is the point of intentionally pissing on people who would be happy to do business with a more civilized person? I just don't get it. I review sites based on the sites, and blacklist for my own reasons as everyone does. I wouldn't decline a site just because of something I read on a board (and wouldn't have time to keep up with the unbelievable spreadsheets and databases that would be required to do so), but like everyone else here a submit that breaks the rules gets declined. With me, since I can and do put reasons in decline emails, when I decline someone four times in a row for the same reason I blacklist, because if they can't be bothered to read my explanations I can't be bothered to keep giving them, simple as that. I'd still list any site that follows the rules, but neither of you has done anything in this thread but hurt your reputations; and if you don't think reputation matters ask Jay Servido. Well, I guess that was at least 4 cents.