Like I promised, the links page has been updated, and within a week from submissions being closed as well, so I think this new policy should work. Now for the stats of what was submitted to me, if anyone is curious. A total of ten links were e-mailed to me during that week and a half or so time frame. Of those ten, four were added. One as a great site, one as a good site, and two as non-SM sites. While I plan to e-mail all the people who sent a link, I'd like to metion on here some of my findings of the sites not accepted. A couple seem to try to make some sort of effort, but look like they're just thrown together with random stuff. A distro site had no links to any of it's sections. One site was really good, except I couldn't read a thing without highlighting words. My general consensus is that people, too many, just want to make a site about something they like, and just throw some stuff that they know of it and make some sort of a site that they expect to be a really good site. While I didn't see anything as bad as metioned in Tiff's editorial on bad SM sites, what I've seen for the most part is that people just want to say they have a site, and just throw some stuff without having knowledge and understanding of what it means to have a site. I really can't give these people any good advice to makie their sites better, because they're not really about anything. I'd pretty much be making whole sites. Basically, what I'm trying to say is if you want to make a site, that's great. But if you want to make a site just to say you have one, don't. It's really not worth it as most of the time, nothing will come out of it. Now being done with all that, head on over to see the new links! You'll notice there are a lot more added then I metioned, well, there were sites I've been wanting to add, but didn't get to, and I decided to add them on today since I was doing the submissions today.
July 18th, 2001
Dan - Links section updated
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