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Yep, I've noticed all kinds of cheating. Figuring out that something is wrong is step one. What to do about it? Some times that's harder.
Here's an easy one to execute. You have a TGP and someone submits a gallery with the ccBill code on top. It's easy to change the link to a different affilaite code on the fly.
As for the redirects. I've seen that happen to galleries submitted to my TGP, by me and others. Sometimes tricky to figure out, but learning along the way.
That's why we check our site manually as often as possible. Automated scans don't catch everything. If you just auto check to see if the gallery has changed and you have many free hosted galleries, you're likely to get a ton of red flags when there is nothing really wrong. Caused by banner roation etc. by the sponsor. Well that's my experience anyway.
In checking by hand, cheats tend to occour in groups. In other words, there is common thread to attack. We've ended up just deleting some galleries to a specific submitter or for a specific sponsor. Not fair, but what is?
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