Originally Posted by interracialtoons

All the vets on this board please pardon me as I beat this dead horse.


The realization that I have lost(missed out on) about $150,000 over the last few years prompts me to say this.

History: A few years ago The Hun and other TGPs threaten to ban sponsors that used pop ups. Sponsors laughed and called them idiots. I had submitted 1000's of galleries for these sponsors and also asked them to stop the crazy popups. Well, the TGPs made good on their threats and deleted all my galleries. These TGPs were keeping archives of galleries that would still get sign ups years after they were originally submitted. So this is where I lost all this money and of course the sponsor lost the money too.
In particular one sponsor really loud mouthed the TGPs about their threat.
The sponsor was ARS. Well, if you thought "ARS?!? who the fuck is that?" then I need not comment anymore. ARS used to be one of, if not the biggest sponsor in the world!

Webmasters who didn't listen:

- Spammed with 10 submits a day which led to:
* partner accounts
* paid listings
* closed submit forms
* Hosted galleries only TGPs

- Never read the rules:
* Created a back log of shit galleries to review so it takes a month to get listed since the TGP has to pain-stakenly check each gallery to see if it is a
piece of shit.

- Traffic Cheats using "img src", "0 sized frames", hit bots...etc led to:
* closed traffic forms
* limited trade partners
* TGPs selling traffic instead of giving it for free


END RESULT:

Newbies have almost no chance of making a decent living in this game and
vets saw their income drop thru the floor.


So I'm waiting for the next time the TGPs start to bitch and I want to see which stupid fucks ignore them. Go ahead, you'll be sorry!