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Originally Posted by Paul&John
Tommy was very good back them, but lately (a few years ago) he switched to per year membership and also the traffic quality went down (for me).
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Everybody switched to paid accounts. Tommy was one of the late adopters, and his price was okay.
Everybody's traffic quality went down.
The switch to paid accounts started a new phase - it "solved" one set of problems, but it was the beginning of the end of the business model.
It's hard to say what it would have been like if there was a better, less destructive anti-cheater "technology" (it makes me groan to have to describe paid accounts as a technology) that we all adopted earlier.
Not that paid accounts were anti-cheater really - the tgp-owners started experiencing the beginning of the sales drought - and tried to make up their losses by charging submitters.
The beginning of the end.