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Originally Posted by PR_Tom
Maybe Mr Yum knows more about it than I do, it's certainly possible I guess as he spoke with Dave directly. All I know is that I was told it was no longer a submittable site and that the database was gone.
I also had a hard link trade with the index page as I said, and had to remove it as well. I get the feeling that whoever was running it flaked out.
Dave would not knowingly link up sites then just erase the link list. Thats just not in the realm of possibility. He didnt run the site, he probably has 5000 domains with projects going on all of the time under hired hands control.
The bottom line is that it sucks for you, it sucks for me, it sucks for everyone who was linked there. I took it on myself as the person who posted it on this board to offer free link trades and free site listings with no recipricols as a gesture of apology. My sites are on autopilot, I dont take submissions. I only have 2 outlinks that are not sponsor links. One to my girlfriends private link list, and one to Robbo's top list thats been on there for years now.
To my knowledge, the ONLY people that submitted there were people from this board, since it's the ONLY place I posted about it because I KNOW there are good submitters here. I'm sorry I didnt reply sooner, I forgot about it amidst my everyday duties, but I am also getting the feeling it wouldnt have mattered.  |
Very decent gesture of you Tom...especially for something that really isn't/wasn't your responsibility.
All I know about the situation is what Dave told me, which has already been posted. Originally sexpc was his baby...he later handed it off to an affiliate (he did not say why)...at some point the affiliate killed the db and it went to hell from there. And that PR no longer has anything to do with sexpc.
However, I do have to agree with Sy. Given that PR started the ball rolling with the site and it was widely known that this was in fact a site being backed by a large sponsor, PR should have made more effort to control the site. And certainly should have made some sort of public notifications when everything went to hell. As you mentioned, most of your submitters were from these forums. A post here when the db was lost would have gone a long way toward stemming the tide ill will. And if PR didn't know the db was lost, they should have...whether an affiliate was running it or not isn't relevant, as everyone else still thought it was a PR backed site.
Again, decent of you to step up Tom...you're an honorable guy so that doesn't surprise me
But at this point, you're doing damage control for damage you didn't cause.