The problem that I have is similar to what you eluded to Steve, is after having a couple interesting reviews, it pisses you off.
I have had a couple, one from Adult Check who could not spell or grammatically construct an English sentence telling me I had too many banners (2 per page) and that the ?contents?(sic) ?wassing hard to finding?, so I submitted it to Cyberage instead, the next week another site (2 banners per page) was submitted this time to Cyberage first (because I was pissed at AC) this time the review was that Cyberage did not allow 2 banners per page. I emailed back asking them to show me where it said that in the rules, they sent me to a url which of course did not have any rules common with the reason the site was rejected. So I submitted it to Adult Check, unchanged and it was accepted.
This inconsistency really irks me, and likely the problem is that they have some volunteers or people working for minimum wage who have never made any money before in their life, let alone being fluent in English (how the heck can they find the content links if they can?t read)
The way I am looking at it right now, is that I have my own paysites, if I want to have a place without banners, I can do it there.
I don?t have enough time in the day to fart around with guessing if a site is going to be accepted or not, so I?d rather have a couple of good smaller AVSs who most surfers do not have memberships for, and sell them instead.
Ah well my rant for the day, I am putting all of my free content pretty much behind AVSs, and I?d rather work with a company who is consistent and actually understands that this is about making money. If I am going to pay for bandwidth, take the time to design the site etc etc, then I am entitled to place a banner or two.
