The point I was trying to make is, that it
isn't clear to an editor, spending maybe 5 or 10 minutes maximum on your site, that you may actually have sufficient original content --in fact, when I look at the page you submitted, I get the impression that it's
all third-party (i.e., non-original) content... (I suspect that's also what pvgool means by "well hidden").
Of course the presence of links to other sites isn't a reason to reject your suggestion --but the links are not seen as "original content" themselves, and they make it harder to see which content, if any,
is original. (That's what I meant by "where it would have jumped at us".)
I guess you don't like me for a reason I don't understand
No, that's really not the case; my earlier message may have been a bit verbose, but I certainly wasn't trying to be sarcastic or unfriendly; I apologize if it came across that way.
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Now, take another look at the page you suggested:
http://www.pepere.org/flash-spelletjes_10/
from the perspective of an editor. What does he or she see:
1) the statement that Annuaire pépère is a "site filled with online games
selected by Pépère" [my emphasis]; hmm, that doesn't sound like
original content;
2) the statement that Pépère "
also creates Flash games of its own"; hmm, let's take a closer look then;
3) links to five games that all reside on
other servers... I'm beginning to doubt that this is a good candidate for inclusion, but let's take
one more look, at the "Strategie" page with 56 games...
4) ...that are
all on 3rd-party servers!
I wasn't the editor who originally rejected your suggestion; but I can tell you that I would have made the
same decision!
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Now, just for fun, imagine that you would have divided the home page in two sections: one labeled "Original games", one labeled "Third-party games".
The editor would have skipped the second section altogether, checked the first, verified that it does, indeed, contain nine or ten original games; and then
perhaps he or she would have decided that these were sufficient to qualify for listing.
Perhaps they would
still be viewed as "not enough original content", but your chances would have been
much better: if all an editor sees at first and second glance is 3rd-party stuff, chances are he or she will assume that that's all there is...
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I hope I've managed to explain
why it did not surprise me that your suggestion was rejected; and please believe me when I say that I'm actually trying to be
helpful, not rude or cynical...
If I were you I would 1) add lots of
original games; 2) make it clear what's "yours" and what isn't; 3) resubmit
after you've taken care of 1 and 2; i.e.,
not tonight, in anticipation of "some editor looking at it some time in the future" --for that future may well be tomorrow, or next week; you simply never know!
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