I personaly don't think Console Hell is the way to go...but neither is 100% surfer friendly free porn. There has got to be a middle ground.
As a web newbie, I surfed around looking for free porn. I quickly learned not to click on banners because of the never ending popups. I eventuallly discovered which sites offered content, and which were payprograms. I found free porn...but never enough to rock my world. The lack of quality and content led me to an AVS membership.
All was good untill I discovered the TGP's Hundreds of galleries of new daily free porn! I can truthfully say that I never used my AVS key again.
Now dont get me wrong, Im not trying to say that all surfers act in the same manner as I.
I just feel there needs to be middle ground based on the two extremes. Console Hell may catch a few people...but shun many away from ever clicking on a banner again. I no longer use banners on my sites, or on my galleries...they just don't convert very well.
I also agree that there is way too much free porn out there. I dont necessarily think it's the fault of the TGP's, but of the webmasters submiting the galleries. 99% of the galleries out there leave nothing to the imagination. They show everything the surfer wants. If the surfer can get off for free, he's not going to pay for more.
I agree with Susan about the free hosts...the free hosts take care of badwidth problem, so the quality of material availble for free is amazing.
I run a movie post site. Most movie sites are extremely clean...and IMO make it way to easy to get free movies (they are all hosted on Yahoo, so badwith is not an issue either). Im constantly debating with other webmasters about the meaning of "Quality Traffic" Is quality traffic the surfer sent to you who wants noting more than to download your free content? Or is "Quality Traffic" a surfer sent to you who buys into a sponsor?
How can you distinguish between the two? I really dont think you can. So that's why there has got to be a middle ground between "Fuck the Surfer" and "Give the Surfer Everything For Free" A little less consoles, and a little less free porn. Would do us all good.
Maybee "Give the surfer everything for free...then Fuck'em!" HaHaHa
