Man I agree with you on all your points except one
I am not angry in the least btw your site is right up there on my toolbar I know it is new and am perfectly fine with it.
Let me make this perfectly clear. Why I cleared out some of those sites is because on some the main page is permanent an the administrator is the only person on there or will ever be on there or any other page. On another they turned themselves into a spam fest tgp. On some others there was obvious manipulation.
I don't care if a single person doesn't vote it is the way those surfers are....I do care if they are sending trackbacks and nothing I send gets published ...in fact nothing anyone sends but theirs does. I provide them with a post specific link and they bury me bah!
So I am not pissed I am not after mad traffic and I submit faithfully to the new guys because they will grow and that makes me happy. I however won't waste my time on someone that has decided this is a good way to get free linkage without wasting traffic on them.
Oh yeah and some of those descriptions you guys get on posts make me want to cry.... TGP description 7 word descriptions BAH!