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EDIT: I started writing this post even before GG made his last two posts. Yes, I am that slow. I linger longer.

Originally Posted by Silver Knight

I like the discussion. But I don't like the fact that you ignore the opinions of other people if these opinions are opposit to your one.

SK - I agree with a couple of the points you've made in this thread (free site structure, the extremeness GG's recip table example, etc), but I think this thread was intended to be a discussion of the recip in question, not a "see if you can change my mind" thread. Therefore I don't feel that we can say that he's ignoring other peoples' opinions. Let's face it, he didn't have to bring it up for public debate. As far as the numbers in the poll are concerned - I'd bet if we could see who voted for what, neither of us would recognize most of the names who voted 'No' and it's fairly obvious that most of them didn't bother to post their full opinion on the matter.

My vote remains a No, but that's because I feel the same way about the subject as GG. In other words, somebody would have to make one hell of an argument for me to change my mind. Simply stating that one feels contrary doesn't make for much a debate.

The following is to clarify my stance and not an attempt at convincing others one way or the other. I know that I'm in the minority.

For me, there are few text links that I consider blind. A true blind link to me is one that appears to intentionally attempt to conceal or lie about the link's destination. Nearly the only time I reject something as blind, it's due to an image linked directly to a paysite or a thumb-like banner. If the average surfer would click on the image and expect to see its full-size counterpart (without reading the text around the image), I consider it blind. Text is different. And as long as a surfer can mouseover the text to see the destination, I usually won't take issue.

What do I think about the value and productivity of text links which most would consider blind? I'm betting that they're absolute shit if linked to a paysite. I wouldn't expect to see sales created by a stand-alone text link which read "Moms Fucking". As far as blind recips, I honestly wouldn't know if there'd be a difference in productivity between Porn and PenisBot Porn.

Now, a long time ago I temporarily changed my recips for WhoringWives.com so that instead of reading Whoring Wives, they read Free Porno. I didn't do it for SE reasons like Kit. I'm simply not that learned in the SE arena. I did it because I felt more surfers would click on Free Porno than on Whoring Wives. Let's face it, it's not a great name for a general categorized link list. Plus, I didn't see how it was much different than the using Cunt Masters on the recips for youngsmut.com. Did my recip get clicked more often? I don't know. But I did start getting Google search hits for the phrase free porno. I changed them back months ago because I felt I would be better served by branding it with the site's true name: Maroon Man's Links o' Drama. I think some people still use my old Free Porno recips because when I update them on my end, I don't demand that the submitters use the new ones in their recip tables.