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Old 04-25-2004, 10:59 PM  
Matt 26z
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Does the amount of free content on TGP's really matter anymore?

A surfer can only look at so much. A TGP that posts 15 galleries a day is really no different than one who posts 150 a day. It's not like the surfer is going to sit there and view all 150. In fact, they probably won't even reach 15 at any one TGP.

There's also only so much time someone can spend looking around. Let's say 30 minutes. As long as there was enough TGP's and galleries to fill that 30 minutes, the number of TGP's and galleries beyond that is irrelevant.

And we are at the point now where new TGP's don't mean new surfers. So you could double the number of TGP's and galleries and it wouldn't matter.

So TGP's are not a *growing* problem. If it's a problem at all, it maxed out years ago..... Yet overall ratios have continued to get worse. Thus proving it's not the TGP's at this point.

Clearly, the problems are with the paysites themselves.... or at least in how they are marketed (usually in a dishonest manner).

In what other industry can someone without the funds to deliver a good product make themselves appear to potential customers that they are just as good as the best on the level that you can do this online?

We're talking the equivalent of someone building a theme park with a front on the outside that is better than Disney, but once inside all they have is a broken down merry-go-round. That's not very likely to happen in the real world, but it's both possible and very common with adult sites.

You can emulate any high quality site from the outside, and then do whatever you want beyond that stage. It's a very bad thing for surfers.

If there is any problem with TGP's, it's the fact that TGP owners and gallery submitters tend to be reckless in who they choose to promote. Many times it's the sites as described above, and that in the end hurts everyone. Including the eventual quality of the traffic.
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