Ben - it's no coincidence that the nitpicking linklists send the best traffic. when adult counters are clicked, they take the surfers to counter sites with large amounts of popups and worse. the link lists that watch out for their surfers regarding stuff like this have tons of bookmarkers dating back years.

greenguy, richardsrealm and especially persiankitty send really good long term traffic and excellent short term traffic. it's worth following the rules because those rules are what made their traffic possible. otherwise they'd have average amounts of average traffic.

by the way, you are sending very little traffic to the link list owners. i was surprised how few hits those recips really send.