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Originally Posted by JK
Maybe you can. If there were more people submitting decent sites, I probably would. I can count on one hand the number of decent submitters GPL has.
I'm all for anything that increases the amount of quality submits.
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Well, that raises a related an equally important question, which is, do we need to create new models for what constitutes a quality submit these days?
Building freesites is a cost-benefit struggle. The more work you put in, the more variations you experiment with, the more experiments you try, the greater the risk of losing money on the freesite.
So there are market forces that pressure builders to create a certain "just average and not one second better" level of site.
And nowadays return on investment for freesites is so damn low that the market forces pushing for mediocrity seem even stronger.
BUT, we don't have a shared idea of how to make freesites better in a way that also allows them to make a profit.
And frankly builders have been intimidated by prick reviewers, so theres no emotional incentive to try to build anything new and prettier and juicier.
Another problem to solve - actually they are a perfect pair of problems, builders and listers need to evolve and experiment together.