Templates - People Get a Clue!

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This is my rant, there are many like it but this one is mine...

NOTE: This is not directed at anyone here at GG&J, merely a chance to voice my general frustrations.

I am the MrMaryLou of Mishi's xxxgoodstuff.com - I do all the submission reviews.

I am soooo fucking sick of people using the same friggin template over and over and over again. I've gotten so cranky about it I've begun banning people. Yes, I'm a bad man.

It is so simple. I know this has been covered over the past 4 years at least 200 times, but I guess it bears mentioning again...

People! Build Thirty (30) templates. Use One per day and rotate them over the course of the month. I don't mind, and I don't think most reviewers will either, if you do this. But submitting the same cookie-cutter bullshit layout every single stinking day drives me fucking nuts. I try to be fair. I try to cut people some slack. But holy hannah it's getting out of hand.

Templates are good, they free the WM up to optimize their work. However, using the same template over and over and over every day isn't how it works.
Surfers will see the trend and ignore your ads. You make Zero bling.
LL owners see the trend first and get sick of it and ban you, so your efforts to add their recip is wasted and if you change your recip table you'll get delisted and/or banned by the sites that originally listed you. Again Zero profit.

If you allow comments on reviews (and why wouldn't you on LL submissions?) I will tell you exactly why you got denied and if you follow up I'll give you a personal response.

OK, I just had to vent that out or else Mishi was going to have to smack me upside the head with a cast iron skillet.
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Happy New Year! And may be your guiding light.