wow...this certainly took an ugly turn
Interesting point of contention too. I'm very close to opening FPP to TGP submissions, as well as a complete redesign. Several reasons for the decision, not the least of which is more submissions = more content. Actually I get quite a few submissions every day, just not that many listable sites. Rather than lowering my standards and accepting some of the absolute garbage that gets submitted by the 'teams', I'd rather open to galleries and continue maintaining my quality standards by only accepting quality galleries.
Yea, perhaps no longer a link list by the conventional wisdom, but is it really that much different? This is almost a tomato/tomato thing to me. It is still a site that lists links to content...whether that content be free sites/pay sites/tgp galleries...it's all content.
Anyway, sorry to see this thread get off track...was a lot of good information floating around in here.