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Maxie, not a challenge, just something that comes from years of experience in the stories marketplace. The mention of "your erotic stories friends" is based on who you are linked to, including annejet, groups which are major supporters in traffic and content for ASSTR.
I will say that your site is one of the first I have ever seen in the "vanity" category that actually follows linkback rules, contains legal content, and has stable hosting. I have had alot of submissions from other pair.com sites that don't want to link me anywhere except on a friends page, contain stories that feature children (canadian law defines this as kiddy porn), etc.
As for ASSTR, just two things: it sucks when someone is giving away for free what you are attempting to sell, and it sucks when someone builds their business on stolen computer services (ASSTR was for years "hosted" on a university network without their knowledge, a PC in a dorm room) - at a time when people like me are paying major dollars for bandwidth and such. Single handedly they have talked many authors out of selling their stories for web use, instead encouraging them to post them to free to the newsgroups so they can be indexed into asstr's archive.
"Ray del sexo" was really pissed off when I pointed out the connectivity issue to the university... I think he had the server taken down, lost his computer access, and I think he might have even been removed from the school.
Your site in and off itself is quite good, and I wouldn't decline it... I just find it interesting considering that you have no commercial aspirations with the site.
Alex
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