Great post cots :-)
We hired a guy to take care of FHG galleris AND posting on forums like this one. We plan to release at least 1 new gallery per week for our main sites... we strongly believe affiliates, good ones, are surely still there waiting for content.
For us is all different, because we actually started in 2008...so we basically didn't experience the golden era (sadly). In a way it's good...because it lets us constantly growing and be happy