for years, i've submitted very plain, text advertising galleries. they work fine. but last week, i had a designer make me a new avs site that was more graphical then the rest, so i had him make me some galleries, too.

i've had several tgp webmasters turn down that gallery based on the "fact" that i used a sponsor gallery template. one even said he had seen it many times before!!!!! even though it's totally custom and less than six days old - he saw the professional look and assumed it couldn't be mine.

it was only a few gay tgps that turned the gallery down - no str8 tgps turned it down. and the funny thing is everyone who turned it down knows me from boards - so it really frustrated me to be considered either an idiot or a cheater :-(