Originally Posted by Tempest

The "funny" thing about a lot of the smaller $20-50/month to submit sites was that it was started in order to weed out the "cheaters". The logic went something like .... a cheater won't spend money to get a partner account... and to a cheater that doesn't have much money, that may be true. But some of the biggest "cheaters" around are using this industry to deliver their exploits etc. so they can then use the surfers computer to spam. They're making so much money that spending a few thousand on partner accounts a month is nothing to them.

I personally believe that a lot of sites will need to start taking free submissions again as the ROI for submitters decreases. Far superior submission and scanning software would make weeding out cheaters far easier than it is now. I've already noticed some sites that went all FHGs are stopping that practice and starting to take submissions again.