Inclusion/exclusion criteria for linking

Well, there's alot of bloggers that want to be linked. There's alot of bloggers I want to link too. But there's only so many links I can put. Surely I can't just dump a whole list there and not do some QC, for I'd want the readers of my blog to be guaranteed a blog of decent standard when they click on a link.

So there, I have to delete some links, add in new ones. No offense to anyone, but those I remove, they don't fufill my criteria I use to determine what makes a blog that's suitable for linking.

Inclusion criteria:
1. Blogs that I love to read
2. Blogs that mention me (yeah, I'm a sucker for attention)

Exclusion criteria:
1. Blogs that are hardly updated
2. Blogs with background music (I really do not want my own music interrupted by low-quality clips of songs I don't fancy)
3. Blogs with horrible templates. You know, those with fancy schmamy frames where you gotta click on some inconspicuous corner to access the different parts.
4. Blogs that don't use readable English. '2dAe I wEn oRcHaRd lolx~~~ cRowd siA!'
5. Blogs that give me a bad taste in my mouth after reading them. Those hate/angst/bitching blogs usually.

(Note that even good friends of mine don't get linked if their blog don't meet the criteria. That includes you, CH, you don't update often enough!)

Well, even if you're not on the list, rest assured I have all your blogs bookmarked and syndicated (via Atom feed) so yep, I do read them regularly.