declined, any ideas?

[MeatPounder]

abatis one point you may want to consider...if you are intending to contact a link list owner here on the boards with a thread, it is usually a good idea to mention that linklist in the title of the thread
Not everyone uses the link tracker or reads every thread on the board

[abatis]

Originally Posted by MeatPounder

abatis one point you may want to consider...if you are intending to contact a link list owner here on the boards with a thread, it is usually a good idea to mention that linklist in the title of the thread
Not everyone uses the link tracker or reads every thread on the board

i hear ya, i emailed and pm'd cucumber asking for a visit to the thread.

-abatis

[Useless]

Originally Posted by MeatPounder

...it is usually a good idea to mention that linklist in the title of the thread

Unless it was one of my lists - because I'd drop your submit account for that. (Don't worry, you don't submit to me.)

And no, I don't care what other link list owners think of that.

[SheepGuy]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Unless it was one of my lists - because I'd drop your submit account for that. (Don't worry, you don't submit to me.)

And no, I don't care what other link list owners think of that.

I agree with Useless. Threads on this board tend to make it fairly high in the SE's.

[abatis]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Unless it was one of my lists - because I'd drop your submit account for that. (Don't worry, you don't submit to me.)

And no, I don't care what other link list owners think of that.

i hope the way i went about it was acceptable to those involved.
maybe in the future ill try to just ask the question without naming names in the threads, that could have gotten across in email than they would know to come see the thread without their name/s being mentioned, thanks for the lessons today everyone.


-abatis

[MeatPounder]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Unless it was one of my lists - because I'd drop your submit account for that. (Don't worry, you don't submit to me.)

And no, I don't care what other link list owners think of that.

Really Useless and Sheepguy?

I mean there was no bitching to look bad in the search engines...I've seen ton's of threads through the years saying hi cleo or high tommy, or high insert linklist owner, my site was declined and I can't figure out why.

And I do not mean the ones that actually have rejection threads here on the board.

I did not know that was a problem with you guys, why?

Admitted the simple email to Cucumber would have been better then even asking on the boards, but I do not see the problem with asking and saying who you are asking...what am I missing?


Heck yrs ago I did that with Cleo, one of my mouseovers got me declined and I asked her why here...she was fine with it, showed me what I couldn't see...and actually gave me a few options as to how to fix the mousover code

[Useless]

Originally Posted by MeatPounder

I did not know that was a problem with you guys, why?

I've mentioned it in several threads, but I don't think I've ever authored a thread on the subject. I've also ranted about it on OTB. I no longer like seeing my link lists' names or domains in a thread title. For that matter, I don't like seeing them being unlinked in posts. I too have old rejection threads for a couple of my links lists, but I've since learned that those threads, as well as threads on other boards, often pop up way higher than I want them too during a search for the name or domain. (The larger, well-known link lists usually don't suffer this same fate.)

If you think about it, it's really basic SEO and should serve to emphasize the importance of the <title> tag. Also, we'd all be pissed if we saw some stranger's site printing our domains on their pages while not linking to us. So why is a message board any different?

I'm constantly around and I'm very easily found via ICQ, email, and PM - so no one really has any good reason to ask anything about my sites in a new thread.

Speaking of rejection threads, I used to think that they were great. If a person is honest and really wants to know the specifics of a rejection, they can come to the board and post the URL to the rejected site, receive an answer from the reviewer, and everyone else gets to learn from their published mistake. But look at LOR's rejection thread: a year later and stupid motherfuckers are still submitting blind recips to Greenie. (Not exactly rocket science.) These people don't have the ability to learn from other peoples' mistakes and probably not from their own either. It's amazing how many people will post in that thread with the same blind recip as the six posters before him/her and wonder what their blind link is. I mean, HOLY FUCK!

Factor in to this the fact that I don't need or want more submitters, and you can see why I, as not much more than a pissant and a little link list owner, can act all Napoleon and shit when it comes to such things. There's a certain high & mighty feeling to having way more submissions than one can possibly list with one's limited time and skills.