What Pisses You Off With Link Lists & Free Sites?

[ponygirl]

Originally Posted by Lemmy

After thinking about it some, this thread is starting to scare me. Seems most of us are pissed at pretty much the same things and some of the solutions that have been mentioned are centralized submit sites where you can grab premade recip tables and submit to many sites with one click, more uniform rules etc etc.

I thought some of the beauty of the LL/freesite model was variety, but these suggestions would do the opposite and create more uniformity.

I have to agree with you here, I don't think it does any good to have everyone the same, and some of my gripes - longer titles, more flexibility with links out etc. are because I'd like to be able to add more variety to my own sites. With a more flexible freesite model, it would be easier to change templates around, make things look different and try new things in terms of visuals and marketing.

Originally Posted by Lemmy

And how much trouble is it to grab the correct micro-micro-niche recip? Most of us probably submit to 4-5 categories at most on a regular basis. Grab the recip once and your done.

As for the 24-hour rule that many have, that's easy too. If you submit every day just push your schedule ahead by one minute the next day and you're good to go. You can submit daily for a long time without having to take a day off.

If it's too much trouble to find the correct recip on the 50 or so LLs that are worth submitting to (I inflated that number so my sites might be included) and managing your time, well, they're always hiring at Wal-Mart and McDonalds. It pays about the same as a mid-level adult webmaster and the hours are much better.

and here too. Really, the recip thing kind of bugs me. I'm sure my system isn't that different from most others - I have a master list of recips, both buttons & text, that I just plug on the page & arrange the way I want it. Then with each submit page open in my browser I cut & paste into the form fields. Most LLs will have some notice if they've changed anything, and if it's a recip I just go in, grab it & change it on my site on the fly, adding it to the master table as well. Takes maybe 5 minutes from grabbing to re-uploading, not even. Generally, LLs aren't changing or adding recips every day, so chances are you won't have to do that all the time. And it's only the one time, once you change your master table. I did it this way even when I was subbing mirrors, and it never really bugged me that much. Maybe that's because as an LL owner as well, I realize a lot of work goes into those recips.

Having said that, I've been making some changes too, and I may be moving to non-catogorized recips anyway. But just thought I'd throw that out there, because I really don't see it as a big problem personally, and as a submitter, I really don't expect everything handed to me on a silver platter.

I hope the Linklist model will be around for a long time, I always liked surfing them better. I think it attracts a different type of surfer, one that likes the buildup and anticipation more, likes the 'story' and natural progression of the freesite. If LLs were all the same, they'd be tgps

I'll shut up now, this has all been just my opinion and my big mouth