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Webring headaches....

Published May 17, 2006

I don't know maybe it's nostalgia that keeps me liking the concept of webrings. Relevant sites linking to each other.... but it's been a headache recently. I've been suspended/in and out of several rings for "failure to have the code" on the main page. Which, of course, is not true, I HAVE had the code on the main page AND a link to a webrings page with the code as well. It turns out that the link was getting seen first many times by the automated checker and so sites that allowed a PASS_L were fine with this *(PASS_L means you have a link to a "webrings" page...) But for sites that required a PASS (No link...) this was apparently causing a problem.


So, I've never (since when October?) taken the code OFF this page or altered it and in the recent months I've been in and out of suspension of several rings - deleted from at least one... Yesterday I took out the Link to the webrings page and left the code at the bottom of the page and EVERYTHING is happy now. So, if you've had similar webring frustrations - that might lead in the right direction.

I've got to say, I found little in the way of useful advice in their site (which I find a mess to navigate...) So, welcome back webring visitors - maybe the automated crawler will continue to recognize the code down there...