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splog at it's best is just a nonsense page packed full of links and unreadable text, generated mostly to trick bots into giving decent serps. 99% of them are automated bullshit pages built once and forgotten forever.
What most of use are building is what I would think of as a clog - commercial log. As I mentioned elsewhere, we are trying to gain readers and bookmarkers and therefore traffic to sponsors, and just like a link list or TGP, we provide access to content or galleries or whatever in return for people being so nice as to come and visit us. Our intentions are entirely commercial, and we attempt to make sales.
We do this by talking to people in a human voice of sorts (usually a fake character we have created) that is the one posting. We add a little humor, sometime some links that are not very relevant but are kinda hot, and we attempt to be somewhat entertaining and on point.
strippedgalleries.net is a little hard on the eyes, I agree with ronnie that black text on a dark greyish background doesn't encourage me to read, especially because the pictures and white surrounds are so bright. I personally would darken the background down just a little more and make the text lighter and more readable, which would likely encourage people to read it more. I might also be tempted to put the entire page into a 750 wide table to make it look a little tighter and more interesting, because on my big screen it just seems to run away from me.
As for spam, there are any number of "human test" tools out there that can help you keep out the worst of the spammers, comments are a useful thing to a point (until you become a spammer) but that is all good.
Alex
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