Wheee I think you hit on something with the number of buttons a site shuold have. I used to always fight Amateurs when they wantes a link on Amateur Index. I just required a button in return, but did not want to be one of 100 buttons. ( especially since I sent 200 times more traffic then anyone else) So I asked them to only have a max of three buttons. Of course they all grumbled then said ok - 2 weeks later stop by and they have tons of buttons.
So I would take them down, and there traffic would drop immediately and they would get pissed at me.
This is how the whole thing started between the amateurs as a group, and AI....
They would then set up a front page with like index2.html or something, with just the AI banner on it - and say look what I did - I guess they thought we were as stupid as they were.... since we knew it was jsut a gateway they built so they could follow the rules.
Amazing how many cockholsters there are/were in this business. The funny thing is, the few girls who did work with me, and were loyal made much more money....
Oh well... this is my rant... has nothing to do with anything....