After reading another thread about "Myspace" at a different board, I figured i'd just copy and paste some stuff for the resposible wannabe's out there.
I would have just posted a link to the forum but GFY has a strict policy on doing that. Wouldn't want to violate any policies now, would i.
That comment was just an interlude as to why any responsible adult webmaster would not even consider using Myspace as a means to get traffic. Just read the quotes below and read the freaking TOS at Myspace.
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A few myspace facts ripped form the News headlines:
MySpace has the highest underage user base of any site on the internet!
There are more 12 to 15 year olds posing as adults then there are real 18 to 21 year olds!
MySpace is the Number one Government and Law Enforcement Searched site on the internet.
MySpace clearly states in their Terms and Conditions
#8. Content/Activity Prohibited
MySpace.com reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in MySpace.com's sole discretion, violates this provision
#8/4. contains nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;
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"#8/4. contains nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;"
Pretty easy to get around that rule though.
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True, it's easy to get around any rule. If your willing to try.
Webmasters sit and bitch about haveing to list their personal info for 2257 COR, but will go and throw up adult content on myspace with big old Links right back to their websites.
Which in whois gives their full imfomation anyway..
Myself, I'ed rather stay away from places I know are being used by underage users and searched by the Law.
So, I just tell WM to stay the fu#k away.
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Bend or brake the rules Only if you are willing to pay the cost...
My wife as told me she has 4th and 5th graders talking about their myspace sites...
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With the present climate any promotion of adult content in an area of the net primarily used by under 18s is asking for trouble.
It's pretty much a disaster waiting to happen.
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Other then it is clearly prohibited as definded within My Space's TERMS.
http://www.myspace.com/Modules/Comm...Conditions.aspx
The frigging Goverrment and Law enfocement crawl thru there
It is owned by FOX and The ties with google.
Google is paying them 900 million dollars.
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/ir_20060807.html
The law suits that have already happened.
And the FACT it is mainly used by UNDERAGE CHILDREN...
Not one damn thing wrong with doing it, I GUESS...
But don't give the old "Everyone else Does it" so why shouldn't I...
Bottom line
It's your life
It's your choice
I quit being part of the Sheep Herd long ago. When I found out that the sheep herder just wanted to shave my ass then eat me.
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I'll put this in another way..
If it were just one of the stupid ass U.S. Laws trying to tie U.S. adult webmasters hands.
I would have shut up and never even jumped in this thread.
But it is a Web Site we are talking about. And a web site that was built for the whole Family. All age groups, 14 and up.
It is also a Web Site same as you all have and I have.
Many of my sites have open free programs too. Gallery submitting, link trading and blog hosting.
These sites have Rules Too.
I didn't create those Rules for some self centered webmaster to bend or brake them.
It piss's me off when they do.
It also helps me understand the resentments so many have against the adult industry.
Every time an Adult Webmaster uses a Web site that was intended for Family oriented content, it helps gain support for those that fight for stricter laws on the adult industry.
By using such sites you are confirming to the rest of the world. That those in the adult industry don't care about underage children, their Parents and the Rules that those Web Sites have in place to help protect them.
I would rather be poor and living on the street. Then have to resort to violating a Child's Rights and a Web Site's Rules in order to make a quick buck.
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It's simple. MySpace was not created for pornographers and they have a very clear TOS to keep adult content out.
If you want to use a site like MySpace to promote porn, use http://www.hahahahahaha.com and if you want an adult alternative to YouTube, use http://www.pornotube.com.
We need to stop trying to use every mainstream site that comes along to promote our porn sites when they clearly don't want us and have rules excluding us.
And then webmasters wonder why we have so many problems.
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This last argument has nothing to do with the first, but now you're saying that if other people do it, you should be able to do it too and even though it's clearly against their TOS, since other people are doing it you think you should be able to, too. So, you're looking for validation and other webmasters to tell you that they have MySpace pages with links to adult sites and have never had a problem and then you'll run out and do it too. Then, you'll be the unlucky one that someone complains to MySpace about and have your site yanked.
They clearly don't want adult content or links to adult content because so many young people use MySpace but as usual, as a rule, pornographers have no scruples or morals so they say fuck it, and do it anyway.
And then people in this business wonder why we get a bad rap.
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