hutcheson - 6:44 pm on Sep 29, 2007 (gmt 0)

>how is that user friendly for the avg (or even the intermediate) webmaster who is just looking to promote their website.

For the avg, or the intermediate (or "middle-of-the-herd" or "run-of-the-mill" or "mediocre" or "median" or ... check out a Thesaurus if you need more synonyms for "ordinary") webmaster?

To them it's, um, flat not friendly at all. At best, ideally, it is indifferent to insignificant contacts. But it actively, positively leans over backward to resist and even counterbalance anything that gives the appearance of any form of pressure.

The extreme example is to threaten a lawsuit, physically stalk an editor, or repeated use of an automatic shotgun submittal program. And after that, we almost don't care if the site is the sole source for the Online Encyclopedia Galactica and the complete libraries of Alexandria, Gordium, Tikal, Anghor Wat, Lhasa, Berlin, Nineveh, and antediluvian Erech. It's a matter of personal protection of the editors that no further contact of any kind be _permitted_.

For less extreme examples, an editor may just "vacuum" the suggestion pools to clean up the mess -- future prejudice to that SEO and all his works, but not necessarily to the website itself. For mild examples, the editor might just spend a few minutes playing whack-a-mole, then go about some useful business.

And ... suppose a webmaster is so strictly assiduous about the guidelines, that he seems like a normal, honest, polite surfer? Then ... he'll be treated like a normal, polite, honest surfer: that is, his suggestions will be routed to the volunteers who are most likely to value them, then considered for all they're worth--including the possibility of multiple listings, deeplinks, keystones for new categories, etc., etc.