Ok... I was the first to mention paying in this thread, I started it, and I said it twice: I was talking about a small fee, one time only.
Something that would prove you're over 18, at least have a credit card, and are serious about the board, not passing by. This would be one of the several factors necessary to pick the webmasters interested in doing real business here.

If anyone finds that paying that small fee is so wrong, that's probably the guys we dont want inside the biz area.

Do you think Lensman gives a damn if someone is serious about this board or just passing by? Get real, he salivates everytime a so-called newbie signs up.

"If anyone finds that paying that small fee is so wrong, that's probably the guys we dont want inside the biz area."

Who are "we"? A few disgruntled posters who fear they are losing their place in the heirarchy of this board. Maybe Lensman can give you all a lollipop to make you feel special again.

I do agree paying works as a great filter.

A filter is the last thing Lensman wants.

What I find is ruining this board is the attack-dog board personalities. I would never post ANYTHING about my business because it's putting a big bullseye on myself. People on here are vicious. I would never give up any information about myself to anyone on this board. I don't want anyone fucking with my money, therefore I keep my shit on the down-low. People like myself can't conduct business here because of people like most of you.

i made both actually muahahah

I'm here to read advice on how to make money, not here to spend it, to be honest.

How about tap a few regulars on the shoulder to be mods to delete the nonsense and take care of troublemakers, maybe give them some banner space on top?

SORRY, your invitation got lost in the mail:1orglaugh

That was just stupid. You seem to know a lot, yet you know nothing. I have no special place in this board. I am not a top webmaster or an elaborate board character, I am not a noob either. I am amongst the dozens of webmasters that do business on GFY. The more money I make, the less time I can spend on the boards. GFY is a nice place to do biz if you refresh 1000 times a day, when you actually do some work it becomes impossible to find the interesting posts on GFY.

If you dont post any of your business info and dont care about Lensman's board, go fuck yourself, I dont care about you either.

I am a member of a mainstream site where people post their pictures. To keep the site as clean as possible they charge a one time small fee. I payed it without thinking twice. Actually, take a look at it, it's pretty cool: http://www.thousandimages.com/ You can see it, but members can post and vote for the pics that get on the site.

This from the 25c sigwhore who posted spoilers to the matrix in his thread titles like an immature child.
Man this is priceless.

I understand your point, and the idea of spending a little money to make a lot more. I'm just a nut for free speech, I guess, and the idea of paying for it doesn't sit well with me, I think there are better ways to initially deal with problems here.

For example, if I had access to the IP Deny function on this site, maybe I could have killed the bots pulling up old posts. Someone should be available to do it around the clock, that's the first step I think, and I think there are plenty of people here who could be available, trusted, and willing to do it.

If that utterly fails, then maybe talk about restrictions. But not until a proper staffing is tried, like other popular boards have.

Just my :2 cents:

Bump and goodbye GFY until this is solved and new rules are implemented :(

bump

In Lensman's interview he said more shit goes on in the background than we can imagine. He said the staff removes most of the trash before we even see it. So, I guess they are already trying to keep it clean.

Bot, hackers, etc... could kill the board very fast, but that's not what I was talking about. I was talking about regular users that do very little or no adult internet biz and post bullshit all the time, making interesting threads impossible to find for people that visit GFY a couple of times a day. I dont want mods to throw them out, free speach rules. Just give the rest of us a biz only forum and we're happy :winkwink:

Yeah...the "Fucking Around" in the forum title leaves a lot of room for, well, fucking around.

something like this could make things a lot better but it can also kill the board real fast so I don't think it will ever be done