Interesting views all...I didn't realize that I would cause such a stir in the past 2 hours.
Well, to answer some of these questions:
Yes, I do still make good money from advertising on the site.
I decided to do this MAINLY to weed out the cheaters on the site. No it's not as easy as some of you think.
I get almost 1500 submissions a day even AFTER I have blacklisted over 4000 domains, and 1000's of I.P. addresses.
I pay employees to go through the galleries as well as monitor them throughout the day for cheaters. Out of the 1500 we get, I only post about 400 and by the end of every single day, that number is down to about 300.
The cheaters just use different URL's and I.P. addresses every day.
I have spent the last 5 years NOT blindlink or circle jerking my surfers around and have built up a reputation on that. The traffic to the galleries I post as well as the sites I trade with is great.
Anyone who has posted knows this.
Sure, I expect to make some good money doing this, but it is a service and since I spent the last 5 years working like a dog to get where I am, why shouldn't I get compensated for it?
It's too bad that all the asshole cheaters out there have to spoil shit for all the honest webmasters. But obviously they think they are much smarter and are in it for the quick buck.
They are the reason that people don't trust sites anymore. (As well as all the CJ TGP's out there with their crap traffic.)
Well, the 6 million surfers a month that visit my site can't be wrong. And judging by the overwhelming response I got from webmasters about what I am doing, within an hour of sending out the emails, I think this is going to work out good for:
my site
my surfers
and
my partners.
If anyone is interested email me at
[email protected]