[whitey]

What MML said.

I run six mid sized tgps and a variety of situations can happen.

For example, I share my bl with all of them. Four of the tgps are niche tgps. One of the problems with niche tgps is off topic posting. I send an automated e-mail about three times, but if someone continues to off topic submit, they are banned - otherwise one would spend their entire time wading through thousands of submissions to find the few that are on topic.

Well, sometimes a good submitter to another tgp will end up on the black list because of off topic submitting at a niche tgp. An e-mail will usually straighten it out.

And that is just one of about a hundred miscommunications that can happen in the process.

One of the biggest problems in running a tgp that takes submissions these days is the sheer number of submissions. One panty fetish tgp that I run was flooded with 4,000 submissions in one day; the result is that it is now closed to all but a few regular submitters

As far as scripts being bad, rules out of date, etc. it may be a problem that the wm is unaware of (Apache upgrades by a host, for example, have played havoc with some scripts, php upgrades as well) or it may simply be that the site is now being neglected.

As far as backlogs, one heavy submit day can set a smaller site back 45 days in their review process until they sort out the source and quality of heavy submitting. You may still get many of those galleries listed Doc.

Finally, getting listed is a relative process. Although I receive several thousand galleries per day that meet my "minimum" requirements yet only a few get listed.

Also, as a hint, I try to group sites with similar rules and "tastes" together. If I can use 4 outbound links, I want to use the gallery with 4 outbound links as often as possible as they convert better than those with 2 (and I prefer to design sites with 4 for my own tgps). Sometimes, 1,000 hits to a gallery that converts is better than 50,000 to one restricted by certain tgp rules.

Personally, I will list a gallery with nice, seductive pics and 5 sponsor links before I would list one with two links and average pics. Learning the tendencies of certain tgp owners is also valuable.

While I don't do many submissions these days, it is my opinion that the life of submitting will get harder in the comming months, but more profitable for those who pay attention like Docholly does.

Getting a good submit list down is alot of work, including following up with tgp webmasters.