For a topic that seems to be posted weekly, it seems to be a heated one.
I have to say that if your hard headed hate change, and think that nothing will ever change. Your wrong, this is a business world, and things change in business every minute. It seems that Rocky has a great intelligence, as well as a great way of explaining the wheel turning inside that head.
I agree I would love it if 90% of new webmasters fail, most do... Why do you think that is?? Maybe they are groomed by some of the sites they use to visit, did their homework on some of the Tgp's out there today that have been around a while, or perhaps not. Sadly a newbie can't compete even with the strictess of rules..
Think about that statement, why can't them compete... Why do they have such a hard time surviving?? Maybe because they are mirroring what they see.. Sadly what they see is only as large as it is (free tgp's) because TGP webmasters have been bending over (and making the gallery designers bend over as well), and take it right in the crack from the free loading palm fucker that does nothing but run around to free sites everyday so he can wack it while his credit card sits nice and tightly into his wallet on the kitchen counter.
You see the existing sites set the standard for all the new sites (as far as tgp's, Im hardly talking anything about sponsors at this point). Now with that being the case, no matter how many webmasters there are, it's irrelevant, the huge tgp's will always be huge, simple as that. Now the fact is people are affraid to change, why change what feels good now, it feels good so fuck it. Ultimatley if the tgp's and gallery designers decided to change you would see a new kind of "newbie" one that creates the same kind of free sites that are out there now, and with the same rules. If in fact those rules were a bit easier and aimed more towards making money than they are to making the surfer think about getting that wallet, you would see more revenue generated.
I think the mis-conception about my initial post is that Im a big fan of TGP2's, or I want console laiden porn pages, or that I want to give away no free porn. That couldnt be more wrong, my initiall thought is very basic. (Im a basic kinda guy), always have been in my personal life as well as in business.
I don't like TGP2 sites, I simply never have and never will and wont get into explaining why. However thumbs up to the for giving some new shit a shot. Have some balls and consider change, business is an evering changing world.
POerhaps instead of rules looking like this:
1) 20 Series Pics Minimum
2) 8 Movie clip minimum (15 second each)/or 1 Movie 1 Minute minimum
3) No larger pictures on HTML pages
You tweaked those basic rules to look like this:
1) 10 Picture Maximum Series Only
2) 4 Movies maximum (10 seconds each max)/1 Movie no longer than 35 Seconds
3) Larger pictures may be on html pages (maybe maybe not, but wouldnt hurt as long as your script can monitor those pages)
4) Limited penetrations in photos
Is that, that much of a massive change? Not really, will it kill a Tgp's bookmarkers? Not at all. Will gallery makers hate the idea, fuck no. And maybe, just maybe, if done somwhat accross the board it might raise the amount of MONEY generated by everyone. 1/2 the content and limiting what kind of content gets listed could very well cause fat ass that has been rubbing his nub onto his keyboard to get the fuck up and yank his CC out of his wallet.
Maybe I've had too many hits of crack today, last week and the day before. The bottom line is, if you cant see whats going on around you, your fucking eyes are'nt open, you don't belong in the biz, or we can look forward to your departure over the next few years.
Thats my opinion and im sticking to it, and by the looks of things other have a very similar opinion, perhaps just a different way of thinking of how they would approach it.
Xtc