(YOU NEED TO READ THIS.) Anarchy and Woodworking; popups and banners.
‘Web resources’ is going to get modified, and most things in it will be recategorised.
It will gain the new label, “programming resources.”
We are getting to add a LOT of categories, including a woodworking category and a building&construction category.
In the meantime. here are a few things that will get your link rejected or deleted.
Excessive popups. We are focused on sites that offer, not sites that take. If your site does not have genuinely useful DIY info, doesn’t offer services that are useful to the DIY community, and/or doesn’t serve a purpose that empowers people to create something, we’re not going to surf past three pages of popups to get to it. We try not to editorialise or censor, but we do really try to offer sites that care about the user experience. This is our reason for being; we’re here to let you learn stuff and support each other, not to steer people to your ads or sell your stuff.
The real exception for content is hate speech and porn. We can deal with anarchy (we even created a section for anarchy blogs; while we may not be anarchists, we will respect your right to representation online. We do, however, get a real chuckle out of the ‘down with capitalism’ ethic blogs that are covered in capitalist ad banners) but we will not support links that are explicit in nature. (I don’t mean mild swearing. Gods, i’d be out of a fucking job.) All it takes is one banner ad with explicit graphics, so watch who you take money from on that. Know who’s sharing your web space. It’s important. Other than that, we don’t care what banner ads you run.
Sales sites. We don’t care about teaching people how to make a million dollars online. If you want to learn how, just google it; there are plenty of people trying to make their million by teaching you to post ads.
we also won’t help you sell your self-help videos, push your newsletter lists, or anything like that. (side note: I’m tempted to make a ‘newsletter’ category, to be honest. There are some interesting ones out there. I’ll have to police it pretty closely if we do. if having such a category seems useful to you, email me. If i don’t hear a convincing chorus asking for it, newsletter-only sites will continue to get weeded out.)
WE REALLY BELIEVE IN PROVIDING WORTHWHILE CONTENT.
WE REALLY BELIEVE IN THE DIY ETHIC AND COMMUNITY.
WE REALLY BELIEVE THAT PICKING UP A HAMMER, OR A GUITAR, OR A GLUE STICK, CAN HELP BUILD A BETTER WORLD.
To do this, we want to give you things that help, and let you have a great big wall to put your work on.
Keep doing it.