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jayeff · 10-15-2004, 01:05 PM

I know what you are saying, but I haven't seen a popular porn webmaster board yet which didn't have a high BS quotient. As a source of ideas and fairly objective information, Andy Dunn's early newsletters were pretty good. But by '99 even they had turned into a spamfest.

Is it realistic to expect anything else? Of all the thousands of sites operated by more or less well-known sponsors, maybe 30 are really focused on repeat business. The same goes for content providers, designers, hosting companies and the rest: the vast majority are in this business for the quick buck, and if it weren't so easy, most would vanish even faster than they do. If that's true of people who have at least invested some money and thought into the business, what can you expect from the average webmaster with just his PC and internet connection?

We all know it. Sponsors offer cars as inducements to sign up with them, but don't answer emails if you want to take a look inside their sites. Flakey hosting companies rely on rock bottom prices and lack of technical savvy to pull in their customers. And on and on: all before you even start talking about the crap we dish up to surfers. Almost the whole industry operates on the same principles as those get-rich-quick schemes you see advertised on TV in the middle of the night.

Most people don't want to learn. If the money doesn't come as easily as they expected, they simply quit. A couple of days ago I cleaned out my bookmarks for the first time this year and close to half the designers I had listed were gone.

And a lot of the more obvious BS is deliberate. We have industry heroes who made it to the top in the early days, but have nothing new to offer and now only talk about their cars or however else they are spending their money. Pure BS, yet they go on catching webmasters who think they can do the same. Others are less obvious: they bring out version 5 of their programs with good-looking tours and a few beta testers to hype them. They won't sell better in the long run or retain any longer than versions 1 thru 4, but hey, pull in the sheep for a few months, version 6 will be along shortly. Others know that a loud, aggressive online personality will attract more business than quiet professionalism, because most of their audience has an attention span a gnat would sneer at.

Take all that away and maybe there isn't a whole lot left?

10-15-2004, 01:05 PM
jayeff Confirmed User Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 2,944	I know what you are saying, but I haven't seen a popular porn webmaster board yet which didn't have a high BS quotient. As a source of ideas and fairly objective information, Andy Dunn's early newsletters were pretty good. But by '99 even they had turned into a spamfest. Is it realistic to expect anything else? Of all the thousands of sites operated by more or less well-known sponsors, maybe 30 are really focused on repeat business. The same goes for content providers, designers, hosting companies and the rest: the vast majority are in this business for the quick buck, and if it weren't so easy, most would vanish even faster than they do. If that's true of people who have at least invested some money and thought into the business, what can you expect from the average webmaster with just his PC and internet connection? We all know it. Sponsors offer cars as inducements to sign up with them, but don't answer emails if you want to take a look inside their sites. Flakey hosting companies rely on rock bottom prices and lack of technical savvy to pull in their customers. And on and on: all before you even start talking about the crap we dish up to surfers. Almost the whole industry operates on the same principles as those get-rich-quick schemes you see advertised on TV in the middle of the night. Most people don't want to learn. If the money doesn't come as easily as they expected, they simply quit. A couple of days ago I cleaned out my bookmarks for the first time this year and close to half the designers I had listed were gone. And a lot of the more obvious BS is deliberate. We have industry heroes who made it to the top in the early days, but have nothing new to offer and now only talk about their cars or however else they are spending their money. Pure BS, yet they go on catching webmasters who think they can do the same. Others are less obvious: they bring out version 5 of their programs with good-looking tours and a few beta testers to hype them. They won't sell better in the long run or retain any longer than versions 1 thru 4, but hey, pull in the sheep for a few months, version 6 will be along shortly. Others know that a loud, aggressive online personality will attract more business than quiet professionalism, because most of their audience has an attention span a gnat would sneer at. Take all that away and maybe there isn't a whole lot left?