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The Advice Asshole · 01-20-2006, 12:36 AM

Hello, everyone, let me introduce myself. I started off writing sarcastic advice columns on http://orsm.net, and soon felt the need to administrate my own site. It started off as geocities/ page, and progressed to a .com. Activity died down, so I shut the site off. A few months passed, and I couldn't take it any more... I missed my site. I went to start it up again, but yahoo got into a huge arguement over who owned my domain (never buy your site through geocities was the leason I learned), and I settled with .net. It has been up and running for a year and half, with a small niche community. It's safe to say that I'm one of the very small guys on the list.

It's also fairly safe to say that my site is one of 'those' (probably being described here, in this thread at least, as a 'celebrity' site), where people join to share posts of images. I have no sponsors, or host any sponsor content, or full content for that matter. If anything I just index links to content.

While I understand this may not fall under 'legal' practices, I do see it as a possibility of being a loophole, but also being a very logistical and common sense orriented individual, I have a strong feeling that it's not.

The main issue that I have with this is my site is a small community in the process of expansion, and the search results that are derived from the terms (found in the legal notice) and my url point to pages that have not been functional in over a year. The content was never hosted on my site, yet I face the consequences of not being able to expand.

This is a tough message to the little sites like mine, thinking that posting images to stir up traffic BEFORE getting affiliated, to see if there'd be a pay off from it before the expenditure of effort, to not even bother.

I have a feeling that being a webmaster at one of 'those' sites may force me to be shunned by webmasters of sites that provide the internet with spectacular content, and am willing to face that. I have always had a clause that if any copyright holder stepped forward and just asked for his/her content to be removed, it would be done so in a heartbeat.

This is the double-edged blade that I face right now. I'm honored that my site is on a list with other great ones, but damned if I'm proud to be removed from google. How many people do you know of that go to google search for the term "The Advice Asshole"? According to my logs over the last year, about 2 a month. Most likely me, too. It was a nice to see my name show up first by searching specifically for my alter ego, and now it pains me to see that my profiles on other forums show up at the top of the list.

If anything, this makes me wonder how newsgroups have remained so popular over the years, and have yet to fall victim to such actions.

I've consumed far more time out of your day that I have probably warranted, and if you've read all the way through, I salute you.

01-20-2006, 12:36 AM
The Advice Asshole Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2	Hello, everyone, let me introduce myself. I started off writing sarcastic advice columns on http://orsm.net, and soon felt the need to administrate my own site. It started off as geocities/ page, and progressed to a .com. Activity died down, so I shut the site off. A few months passed, and I couldn't take it any more... I missed my site. I went to start it up again, but yahoo got into a huge arguement over who owned my domain (never buy your site through geocities was the leason I learned), and I settled with .net. It has been up and running for a year and half, with a small niche community. It's safe to say that I'm one of the very small guys on the list. It's also fairly safe to say that my site is one of 'those' (probably being described here, in this thread at least, as a 'celebrity' site), where people join to share posts of images. I have no sponsors, or host any sponsor content, or full content for that matter. If anything I just index links to content. While I understand this may not fall under 'legal' practices, I do see it as a possibility of being a loophole, but also being a very logistical and common sense orriented individual, I have a strong feeling that it's not. The main issue that I have with this is my site is a small community in the process of expansion, and the search results that are derived from the terms (found in the legal notice) and my url point to pages that have not been functional in over a year. The content was never hosted on my site, yet I face the consequences of not being able to expand. This is a tough message to the little sites like mine, thinking that posting images to stir up traffic BEFORE getting affiliated, to see if there'd be a pay off from it before the expenditure of effort, to not even bother. I have a feeling that being a webmaster at one of 'those' sites may force me to be shunned by webmasters of sites that provide the internet with spectacular content, and am willing to face that. I have always had a clause that if any copyright holder stepped forward and just asked for his/her content to be removed, it would be done so in a heartbeat. This is the double-edged blade that I face right now. I'm honored that my site is on a list with other great ones, but damned if I'm proud to be removed from google. How many people do you know of that go to google search for the term "The Advice Asshole"? According to my logs over the last year, about 2 a month. Most likely me, too. It was a nice to see my name show up first by searching specifically for my alter ego, and now it pains me to see that my profiles on other forums show up at the top of the list. If anything, this makes me wonder how newsgroups have remained so popular over the years, and have yet to fall victim to such actions. I've consumed far more time out of your day that I have probably warranted, and if you've read all the way through, I salute you.