What I hate most is the lack of a contact form, or any other way of contact the webmaster. What I, at least, expect when I am doing business, is to be able to communicate with the other party. I can't do business with a faceless mixture of images, links, and scripting code. Who can?
I don't think its the sites that call themselves that its google calling them this. What I do hate is these so called authority sites abusing this faux pas and ripping people off with over inflated submission fees.
I know why it happens its just annoying Its also specific to one directory script, so perhaps its a built in spam control... rest assured its not phpLD!
One of them i find is the common category dump seen in most of the directories! Seems like we are going to get listed into the copied content pages!
My pet peeve is directories that either (a) don't acknowledge that you've submitted to them or (b) list your submission without letting you know or, worse of all, (c)=(a)+(b) Here ends today's algebra lesson...