Hey, List Owners With Captcha, Give Webmasters A Break

[horney]

Seems there's some concensus so I'm now glad I posted. The mild annoyances, like getting the catcha under the submit button, I can live with. Most don't delete the info you've just put in.

But I'm not going to start using autosubmitters 'cos I don't want to get banned by all the list owners. Having gone to the trouble to add the link to the table, then fill in the form and go out of my way to get it right, covering all the foibles like a non-standard entry (i.e. only a small number of owners do it this way whilst all the others actually do not want what is being asked for) then finding I have to squint at disguised crap like that for minutes, only to get it wrong, do it again, wrong again, and again. The non-standards I mention are things like title length or style, description length, so you have to do one especially for that one, single list, and so forth. I really don't mind them.

Like the others who have posted, submission is the last thing in the sequence so it is usually when I am about to go to bed. Being kept up an extra hour on stuff like that, knowing damned well most of the most awkward ones are not going to generate any traffic anyway, is not a productive use of my time or temper.

Incidentally, Maj. Stress, I was accepted by you so you can't have one of those disguised character things I'm on about. Out of the ones I try usually, I get at least a couple right. I failed and gave up on every single one last night. I now have the task of going through the lists I have of places to submit to or I'll be leaving holes in my links tables.