If you had come and said something like: "No need to link to your site from our site, I'll help you out and put a link for you for a few weeks", my respect for

If you had come and said something like: "No need to link to your site from our site, I'll help you out and put a link for you for a few weeks", my respect for you would have been massive. And out of gratitude, the guy would probably have linked to you for the rest of the lifetime of his site. Instead you land like a splash of cold water in the face. You have already forgotten the feeling of being little.