Completely agree and it is something I have to live with on a daily basis on my travel directory. Needless to say such links never see the light of the day and just end up wasting not only submitters, but also my time.
Hi I don't Believe Auto Submitting for directories it may harm your site ranking in Google for a long time.
I tried auto submit but it's not worth and not good as doing manually because of SE's spam consideration