I just had a mainstream site experience that reminded me of this :
I remember back in the day when I wanted to build an Adult Check Gold site.
I bought around $800 of content and built a site to submit.
I thought the site looked decent, not really great, but for sure it would be accepted.
So I submitted and waited and received a rejection notice.
The reason for the rejection was "Did not use graphical buttons on links".
In other words I needed to open photoshop and create a jpg or gif for each link
on the website.
So I created all the buttons and resubmitted the site.
I was confident this time and waited for approval.
No dice! Rejected again!
This time the notice said "We have seen this content too many times already".
I responded, "why didn't you tell me this the first time you checked the site".
At that point I was like fuck!!!! I just spent $800 and a lot of work for nothing!
So I took the content and made a pay site with it and eventually made around $25k
before I shut the site down.
I shut down because I became afraid of charge backs because in those days it
was too hard to buy the content I needed(interracial) and the site was never
updated enough.
So thanks Adult Check Gold approval dude, without you I wouldn't have made shit.