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Originally posted by -=HOAX=-
One of the bigger problems too is that newbie webmasters, bless their souls, just don't have the experience to convert well...they fill up a tgp full of fhg and pump traffic to it and it degrades the value of the fhg, the content within it, and the site its promoting.
In many ways I think the fhg was the sponsors answer to the huge thirst for unique gallery templates that we went through about a year ago...everyone wanted templates that converted.
So the sponsors felt in their infinite wisdom that if they built templates that converted and gave them out...they'd increase the value of all the free content they were doling out.
Instead, people saw it as filler, the rest of the sponsors had to play keep up with the jones' and it back fired...fhg flooded the web and supply drowned demand.
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In a lot of ways, FHGs hurt newbie gallery submitters. They have been a HUGE BLESSING to TGP owners who are sick of having to delete galleries for cheating or who waste too much time reviewing submissions by webmasters who haven't bothered to read the rules.
I have a very small TGP and it still gets 300+ submissions per day. If I get 10 galleries worth listing, that's a good day. I end up having to blacklist 5 times as many webmasters every day for not following the rules. Because it is so much easier to use FHGs, many TGP owners have stopped taking submissions because of them. The result? Fewer TGPs for the newbie webmaster to submit to.