Originally Posted by $5 submissions

Ever heard of OPEN SOURCE? Whatever IDEA anyone has, the moment you put it on the net, it is open to analysis and improvement. This goes for mainstream and adult sites. Unless they steal your copyright or your stuff is patented, people can and do look at your implementation and come up with better solutions to either the same problem or other problems.

If we follow your logic, then ANY idea re generating traffic is immediately off limits to anyone else. Regardless of the fact that they arrive at it independently. If this was truly the case, then YOU'd be disadvantaged because NO ONE has a monopoly on innovative ideas. Ideas are arrived at indpendently ALL the time. It's the implementation that varies.

Based on this thought, there would only be ONE linklist or TGP on the Internet cuz...hey.. ideas cannot be transffered amongst individuals...