Link O'Rama Rule Changes (yipee)

[Magix]

Originally Posted by Greenie

Hold on! Read the rule page 1st - the 1200 for images is the combined width & height (Good: 700 + 525 = 1225 Bad: 640 + 480 = 1120)

I guess I should have made that a bit clearer in my post

so you won't be accepting sites with images 640 +480 ?

[Kinky]

nice! 12+ pics... bigger pics... there are thousands and thousands of surfers that instantly click out when they see a tiny lil 10 pic gallery with crappy content, happy surfers are spending surfers, good content is king

[iMan]

Progress! Onward and upward

[MrYum]

Looks good Greenie

Glad to see 800 wide is still accepted...had me worried on that one for a minute there

[Greenguy]

I sort of assumed that everyone would know that 800 wide would still be accepted - it's not like I was declining sites that fit at 600 last week

[sue-fl]

I'm just glad I have to Monday!! I have some freesites ready to submit and they don't comply with the rules. Thanks for the extra time Greenie or I'd be crying right now.

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by Greenie

1200 pixels for the combined width & height of images

Math just never was my thing.

I'm just glad we aren't using pentacontagon shaped pics.

[JustRobert]

At first I had some problems with these changes, but before I started typing I took a moment and thought about the changes. After 10 minutes of my 2 brain cells fighting they came to the conclusion that this is just fine by us.

The 1200 total is a pain in the ass. Most of my images already comply with this so I do not care but why not make it 700 on the long side. Easier for those that hate math.

The 120 seconds of video I never agreed with. I believe the freeloading bastards should pay for quality/quantity videos. I do not do vids so it doesn't affect me. I prefer arousing pics.

Kind of like all the free hardcore thats out there. They should be paying for that as well. I have read that those that started in the early days blurred the hardcore parts and sales rolled in but somewhere along the way that changed and sales slowed down in the fight for traffic versus sales. Same reason the DOJ is up some peoples ass, too much free and twisted hardcore. Just my thoughts.

Can't wait to see what the next changes are

[MrYum]

Originally Posted by Greenie

I sort of assumed that everyone would know that 800 wide would still be accepted - it's not like I was declining sites that fit at 600 last week

Now Greenie...we all know what they say about 'assuming'

Seriously though, it's good to see some carefully thought out steps forward

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by JustRobert

...The 1200 total is a pain in the ass. Most of my images already comply with this so I do not care but why not make it 700 on the long side. Easier for those that hate math....

Normal 4:3 pics will work with the 700 rule, but those wide-screen 16:9 pics would have to be 800 on one side.

I could make it 800 on one side if that makes it easier for everyone

[Greenguy]

That last post was #18750 for me - if i was a comic book, it'd be a collector's edition

[JustRobert]

Originally Posted by Greenie

Normal 4:3 pics will work with the 700 rule, but those wide-screen 16:9 pics would have to be 800 on one side.

I could make it 800 on one side if that makes it easier for everyone

I did not think about the wide-screen stuff, makes more sense now.

I'm good with 800 as well, though that may make it harder for some people.

[frankthetank]

Originally Posted by Greenie

WarBot - so 2 more pics per page is going to cause surfers to not sign up to a paysite? Bigger pics will do this too?

You looked at a 500x375 pic lately? It's fucking tiny!

I'm here to make everyone happy - submitters, surfers & myself. To me, this is not that big of a deal.

People have bitched for the last year that 800 was too small, so I increase that as well as some other things based on that & it's a bad idea?

I don´t think two additional pics will have any influence to the signups. But on the other hand content requirements are growing steadily.

The only really bad thing coming with the 12/24 pics rule is that I can´t build freesites easily from my galleries. I´m using 20 pics for galleries and could split those pics on two freesites. Now I have to use 4 more pics, so I have to change my building process.

[sue-fl]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Math just never was my thing.

I'm just glad we aren't using pentacontagon shaped pics.

I suck at math for real Cleo! I still don't know what size picture is to small for the new rules! Just have a feeling my average 600by450 is not going to work anymore

[Bill]

I don't particularly like it, but what can you do.

[RedCherry]

Thanks! That helps me, I can do 600x600 pics for my one site that has square pics. I just did a site today at 650x650, and I think 1 pic ended up over 100k due to the quality. I'm not about to compress the shit out of them, lol.

And YIPPEE on the 1024! You can only fit so much stuff in 750, so that gives you more room for different layouts.

I'm going to change the rules on my link lists to allow up to 1024 wide. I use 1280x1024 resolution on my 2 monitors and 800 wide max sites look really small, lol.

Glad I like making 12 pic galleries for my free sites, that won't bother me at all.

[WarBot]

Originally Posted by MrYum

Now Greenie...we all know what they say about 'assuming'

Seriously though, it's good to see some carefully thought out steps forward

I just dont understand how giving the free porn surfer more and higher quality is somehow a good thing?

I keep asking myself, I wonder if it was Joe Smith posting this, who owns a link list that gets 30 visitors a day, how many thumbs up do you think Joe would get if he said we should give the surfers more and higher quality free porn? I think it makes a HUGE difference that its greenguy saying it.

And yes, it scares the hell out of me to post in this thread. I would hate like hell to get on Greenguys bad side (or anyone really). But I just think this is such a bad idea. Hell, I dont even do picture galleries lol.

[Greenguy]

WarBot - you're not on my bad side

But my advice to you is to revive the old Linklist2 concept & see if you can get that ball rolling like TGP2 is

Seriously - this is NOT that big of a change & if you don't like it or any of the other rules, then don't submit.

[WarBot]

Originally Posted by sue-fl

I suck at math for real Cleo! I still don't know what size picture is to small for the new rules! Just have a feeling my average 600by450 is not going to work anymore

If your picture is 600 x 450 thats 600 + 450 = 1050. Its just long side + short side is all. No complex formula's just addition (luckily for me too lol)

Cheers
WB

[WarBot]

Originally Posted by Greenie

WarBot - you're not on my bad side

But my advice to you is to revive the old Linklist2 concept & see if you can get that ball rolling like TGP2 is

Seriously - this is NOT that big of a change & if you don't like it or any of the other rules, then don't submit.

Now that you put it that way I like it more.

[Useless]

I was a cunt hair nervous when the original post made it sound like the pics had to be 1200px on the long side (phew), but otherwise - I'm not seeing a problem here. You shouldn't be pushing the lower size pics anyway. He or she with the better samples is going to sell more porn. Keep shoving those 500px wide pixelated pieces of shit in front of your surfers and wonder why they're not buying. Good samples will sell the site better than constantly repeating "I know my samples suck, but if you join you'll get nicer shots"

Have you people ever bought a used car? Two cars cost $3k. You take both for a test spin. All else equal, one looks like shit, one still has good paint and upholstery. The salesman tries the hard sell on the shitty one. "It'll look better after you buy it than it does now!" Yeah, sure it will.

At least the LOR has made it EASIER for you less than genius free site builders who couldn't squeeze your templates down below 750 to avoid horizontal scroll for the last 5 years.

[CelticTiger]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I was a cunt hair nervous when the original post made it sound like the pics had to be 1200px on the long side

You were nervous? I'm the dumbass that thought he meant both sides had to equal 1200px nothing bigger and nothing less |shocking|

[WarBot]

I dont want to argue but just for the record, I dont submit sites with tiny crappy conteont and I dont have any problems with sideways scrolling either. I build good sites with good content.

[Quotealex]

Originally Posted by Bill

I don't particularly like it, but what can you do.

Me neither. But what can we do!

[Useless]

Originally Posted by WarBot

But just for the record, I think that if every link list said the pics couldnt be OVER 500 px on the long side there would be alot more sales for everyone.

They'd just go to TGPs. Link lists and free sites suck anyway.

This discussion just goes to show that there are different theories on what sells porn. I think surfers buy because you've got them hooked on a good thing, you think they buy because free porn sucks.