My other comments were edited since I sort of feel bad about jumping all over it... Theres normally so much sleaze associated with credit card marketing in general that it is hard not to jump on it sometimes... For starters, your plesk login page is indexed by Google. Probably not the best idea for site security.
After that if the site is to work you need to make sure you keep it really pure and unbiased. Don't allow users to submit affiliate links, put strict controls on user ratings and don't allow small groups to drastically affect the site. Inherently the site sets itself up to be abused by marketers but if you can put strict enough controls in place to keep it relatively unbiased you have the potential to create a decent resource.
thanks for the input. currently, i'm allowing users to use affiliate link only as an incentive for them to add more cards. i want to make sure all the details that they add are objective and no spamming occurs. in order to rate cards, you have to be registered, and can only rate once per card. i'll add a captcha to the registration to make sure no fake accounts are made.
do you think it's really important to not allow affiliate links?
Yes I would say its really important. If a person has the potential to earn money from a card submission they also have the incentive to start gaming the system (groups of people even) by rating their card highly even though it may not be the best card.
Also you really need to limit the voting by ip address, what prevents me from adding an affiliate link and then creating accounts with my 50 different email addresses and boosting that card to the top all for my personal gain...
yeah, i guess a lot of the work in trying to keep it unbiased can be saved if no affiliate links are allowed. i have updated the new card submission page to reflect that. thanks for your feedback.
Its not spammy but the lack of disclosure that it is basically an affiliate site sort of gets to me. There are too many sites like this on the internet designed for google and thrown together to make a quick buck. The kid seems like he has at least some ability to code, why not put that towards something with a little more value-added.
to me if there's no misleading information or favored affiliates due to better affiliate terms (without making it public/obvious ala 'sponsored results') and not based on community feedback - I still fail to see what's wrong
