Starting a post with [DATE - CITY] like its a canned press release is a dick move.

Emailing Dabitch/Hostmaster "Ad Blog X already posted about this awesome story" that you're pitching makes us cranky. We hate leftovers.

Constantly making front page posts that link to your own blog without ever once linking back to adland from your blog makes us create little voodoo dolls of you that we stick pins every time we reject your next posts. We're watching you.

Really, avoiding these things isn't hard and kinda obvious courtesy rules.