A rant about "approved" recips

[Cleo]

My personal pet peeve is requiring the use of a category recip. Sometimes it seems like I spending more time hunting down and changing out recips to the correct category than in building the promotional piece.

[LD]

Originally Posted by Cleo

My personal pet peeve is requiring the use of a category recip. Sometimes it seems like I spending more time hunting down and changing out recips to the correct category than in building the promotional piece.

Yeah...I've seriously considered only submitting to list that do not require cat receipts, with a few notable exceptions, of course. I wish there were a list somewhere (there might be) of list that do not require cat receipts. I would certainly give them priority over the others.

[ladydesigner]

Originally Posted by LusciousDelight

Yeah...I've seriously considered only submitting to list that do not require cat receipts, with a few notable exceptions, of course.

Same here! In fact, I'm building a site right now and am spending more time getting the correct category recips for those that require them than I spent building the whole site. Gets very boring and makes my eyes cross.

[Sven800]

Originally Posted by ladydesigner

Same here! In fact, I'm building a site right now and am spending more time getting the correct category recips for those that require them than I spent building the whole site. Gets very boring and makes my eyes cross.

Main reason why i have not been able to bring myself to build a site in a couple of months.

Everyone gets pissed when I submit sites to the same 2 or 3 categories... There is a reason for that - it means I don't have to go digging for category recips all the damn time.

[Pagan]

Doing Category recips is really not all that bad. It lets me see where I think my site will fit in best. Mine will often fit two or three categories, and if one is quite full, I can pick another. Or, the LL might not have that category. I don't ever object to category recips. I think it is a guide for the visitors to know where to look to find other sites of a similar flavor. I also do it out of fairness. A recip that is 1 line in a table of 2-3 lines looks odd or unfinished. I am actually proud to show where my sites are listed. Go figure.

Where I do have problems with it is when it is applied with the iron fist. A lot of my sites tell a story. On an anal site for example, I include some of the foreplay but still make sure that 50% of each gallery is specific to the niche. If it's a reality based site, you need some of the story line to enjoy the site as a whole. The paysites include it, and may well feature it highly in their tours. Yet, I have had sites declined because though I had one category recip, they felt it was really a different category. The sites were accepted at 90% of the other lists on that recip table. The decline wasn't for structure - it was over a category recip.

I know, too, that without some standard a few of the freesite builders will put your recip in 4 point dark grey text on a black background. But, how rigid do you LL owners feel you need to be on your recips? Do you really feel we need to take a step backwards after the LOR Trusted Submitter changes?

[Sven800]

Originally Posted by Pagan

I know, too, that without some standard a few of the freesite builders will put your recip in 4 point dark grey text on a black background. But, how rigid do you LL owners feel you need to be on your recips? Do you really feel we need to take a step backwards after the LOR Trusted Submitter changes?

If my recip is hard to read I will not list the site. If you have a black background make sure my text isn't black. If I can not read my recip I am assuming you don't want it listed on my site.

[plateman]

I've said on my of these type threads that I would take both recips

the category ones I have or just a link to my index

and if other LL's insist on there category recips with crazy rules for them, then I'd forget about those LL's