Are autosubmitters true evil?

Allfetish · 2006-01-14, 10:27 PM

I can only speak for myself as a very minor player in the game but I do not have much of a problem with autosubmitters themselves. The only thing I expect is that every once in a while someone will bother to go back and check the rules AND that people read the rejection messages they get and fix future submits. Unfortunately, this appears to be too much to ask sometimes.

I know this is very much against the grain but I think autosubmitters are nearly a complete win-win situation for everyone, especially the submitter. LL owners get more submits (assuming they need them!) and submitters of course can do more in less time. The only major downside from the LL owner perspective that I can see for when people act reasonably is that it means less eyes looking at the webmaster pages (where you can promote sponsors, etc). That cuts into $$$$.

I would like to see some sort of standard worked out with autosubmitting. For example, have the autosubmitters check for a certain string which indicates when the rules were last changed. Compare this to a local record and if it is newer, pop up a display informing the submitter so that they can make sure the rule change does not effect them.. Or better yet, some sort of standard machine readable format (that we can all use) for the rules which is integrated with the submitter itself and updated regularly. Something like this would address much of the problems with autosubmiters.

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2006-01-14, 10:27 PM	#4
Allfetish If you really need money, you can sell your kidney or even your car Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 373	I can only speak for myself as a very minor player in the game but I do not have much of a problem with autosubmitters themselves. The only thing I expect is that every once in a while someone will bother to go back and check the rules AND that people read the rejection messages they get and fix future submits. Unfortunately, this appears to be too much to ask sometimes. I know this is very much against the grain but I think autosubmitters are nearly a complete win-win situation for everyone, especially the submitter. LL owners get more submits (assuming they need them!) and submitters of course can do more in less time. The only major downside from the LL owner perspective that I can see for when people act reasonably is that it means less eyes looking at the webmaster pages (where you can promote sponsors, etc). That cuts into $$$$. I would like to see some sort of standard worked out with autosubmitting. For example, have the autosubmitters check for a certain string which indicates when the rules were last changed. Compare this to a local record and if it is newer, pop up a display informing the submitter so that they can make sure the rule change does not effect them.. Or better yet, some sort of standard machine readable format (that we can all use) for the rules which is integrated with the submitter itself and updated regularly. Something like this would address much of the problems with autosubmiters.