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Old 10-17-2001, 12:07 PM  
harvey
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After TGP2 there will be AC1 (Adult Content 1) which will have only 1 rule: Everybody will pay!

Wouldn't it be nice?

(In AC2 even webmasters will need to pay to access their own servers)

btw, I don't live in USA, but wouldn't be cool if adult webmasters join efforts to make some kind of "moral coalition" and then ask congress people to stop porn by asking for AVS or credit cards? I think it will eventually come, so why don't you push things a little?

And for the TGP/TGP2 discussion: I'm the webmaster at TGP2.net but I still use TGP. The webmasters of TGP2 usually run TGP too. What does it means? We KNOW what's the actual state of things, and we know that it's very difficult to make a living off TGP2 exclusively. But at the same time, most of us are working with a vision of future and that's why we are using so much time in TGP2 related projects. Because there's room for new things and new concepts. But is there anything to be done in TGP? I doubt. When a TGP webmaster asks gallery makers for
* 15 pics minimum
* Paid host
* High Quality pics
* No more than 2 ads
that webmaster is thinking on one thing: "please give me content so I can have a running site and don't even bother on trying to make some money. I'll (I am) avoid(ing) it by any mean possible". And then, the webmaster who is so "interested" in his surfers, all of them just a "community of friends" hanging at the webmaster's site, this very same webmaster will make the surfer download a dialer which will charge the surfer up to 8 dollars PER MINUTE. I know there are exceptions to this, but they're the least.

Let's take The Hun or Worldsex: they don't have dialers, but they rely on the affluence of surfers coming to their sites, which is big due to the content they have, that way they sell ads to people interested to reach that shitload of surfers. Now, let's say I'm a webmaster AND a surfer. That makes me your best friend, then why don't you give me a very good position at your TGP for free? Don't you love surfers? I'm a surfer too!

I'd go on and on, but the main message is the following: There are no enemies, there are different strategies and all of them are leaded to make more money

Peace


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