Category recips? wtf?

[security_man]

i agree whole heartedly darksoft. Far too many linklists are requireing more and more outlandish things for getting listed IMHO. And before everyone starts saying "well just dont submit there if you dont like it" lemme say that i would love it if linklist owners would try to take the approach of a win/win rather than a "my way or fuck off" attitude (and im not accusing anyone of being that way at all either )

for instance my linklist is fairly new, we dont requre recips at all (unless there are other recips on the site, i think thats fair) much less niche specific ones, however we do have them and if webmasters use them they get a better listing.

i find it very difficult to tell people how to build their sites, i dont like it when people do it to me so i try very hard not to do it to others. I would much rather see a system of rewards and penalties for various options rather than more and more ruthless enforcement of rules.

I prefer to let the webmaster decide if its worth it or not to do different things... if you want popups on your site, fine, go nuts, but you will get a notation on your listing that you have popups and that will cut into your traffic. if you give me a niche specific recip you go on the whats cool page automatically - two listings for the price of one. and on and on

i havent found any detrements to doing it this way yet. i hope that i wont ever have to adjust my rules to more tyranical versions, but only time will tell.

It almost seems like new linklist owners want to be in "the club" and think that if they make extreme rules or enforce them in extreme ways then they will more likely be accepted into it. I saw a new linklist once that had their rules page worded like they were joseph stalin... "submit a site with more than three ads and i will blacklist you and make sure every webmaster board i know of knows what kind of sorry fuck you are" kindof wording. I dont know if it was a joke or not quite frankly, but it did make me not ever submit to them and they arent around any more anyway so that kindof speeks for itself i think. The funny thing was that the categories only had one or two sites in each of them and he was screaming about shit like "DONT FUCKING SUBMIT A SITE WITH POPUPS - im tired of dealing with them and you are fuck for putting them on your site" as if he had been reviewing for years LOL

i also dont think many new linklist owners really understand the model or marketing concept behind linklists. They read boards like this and see the experianced linklist owners talk about rule brakers and rule enforcement so they think that the stricter you are the better you will do without understanding that those experianced owners are only showing the worst examples and have thousands of links in their database. So they go nuts with their rules and end up shooting themselves in the foot over the long hawl. Nine times out of ten a linklist with crazy rules will have very little traffic and only a couple of links in the database so odds are they dont understand the model anyway and will not be around any longer than it takes them to realize that owning a linklist doesnt instantly make you rich

Jeez sorry for the book - its just something i have been thinking alot about lately and once i got to typing i couldnt stop LOL