It just goes to prove that he is not going to reply to the emails, and is showing TOTAL disrespect for the FREE service you are providing.

exactly my thoughs, that is why I hit the reject button.

I have been working my way through the backlog for deeply linked today. I have not done anything for 4 weeks, and I had 3000 submissions to get through. There is a maximum of five pages allowed. I scan down and count them, if there is more than 5, then they ALL get rejected!

If people can't be bothered to read my submission guidelines, then I can't be bothered to edit their submissions

I have a pretty busy free web directory too, don't bother spending much time on correcting error, just hot delete button, its the quicket way. I only allow one url and not deep linking but its unbelivable how many people submit every page of their website

I think that I am sillier than that, well, I don't really think you are silly though Temi.

I reject submissions from sites that are selling products or services. I figure if they were truly concerned about their success, they can cough up the $2.00 it costs for a premium listing. That want to charge me for their products, but yet don't want to pay me for my time. I know, it's a bit childish. I don't do it to all of the sites that charge for something, just ones that look irritating to me. I also look at the IP addresses, if it is a directory submission service then I will reject all of their listings. In other words, if I see the same IP address using 10 or 15 different email addresses, they will be rejected. That's on my free directories. I am actually going to set out hard fast rules for linkslinky, that even I am not above following.

Thanks for that contribution Jump, after your explanation of how you made editorial judgments and OWG's rational, I fell I am not that silly any more. One think I will learn from you however Jump is that even I should not be above the rules, at the moment I bend the editorial rules for myself or my clients, I must stop that to preserve the integrity of the directory.

Haha yeah I have seen all types of listings. Luckily I have created and installed scripts that help lessen the spam.

You have to take quite a hard line, its too time consuming otherwise, you start off all soft and turn into a mean hulk after youve owned your first dir. for a while!