Originally Posted by Robbie

What ad revs? You mean companies paying to put banners here right?

Well...aren't those banners supposed to be targeted towards WEBMASTERS and AFFILIATES? Not the pirates who are destroying the companies who pay for the ads.

Those traffic stats are useless if they are 99% surfers. And us program owners KNOW that. And not only that...but as I understand it, Eric has already closed it down to non-registered members and he does require some proof of being in adult for new members right?

So it would be easy enough to put in a field in a user cp that is viewable only by the user and admin that would be a place to prove you are in this business and who you REALLY are.

That would eliminate all of the fake nic/pirate/trolls.

I read over and over and over from people on here that all of us guys who started in the beginning were nothing but "lucky" and don't understand how to run a proper business, and blah-blah-blah

And that is usually written by some anonymous person with a high schoolish sounding "nick name"

Well, if GFY became industry only....there would no longer be ANY need for people to hide behind childish nicknames and claim to be millionaires from their trailer park. Everyone would know who they were dealing with and that they aren't giving out industy secrets to pirates and civilians. THAT is how a REAL business forum should work. Especially in a closed business like ours.

No surfer needs to even KNOW that an affiliate program exists. Much less be clicking on the banners on GFY. When you let that happen, you end up with gideongallery running that "sumo summer" banner from PussyCash in his sig for the last 3 or 4 years...it's been a loooonnnnnggggg summer.