I know that most of this has been said before but I am going to repeat it because of some of the threads I have seen across the past few days.
Newbies.... GFY is not necessarilly a Newbie friendly board (neither are Oprano, Netpond, Ynot or any of the other big boards)
There are plenty of people here that will give you excellent advice when you ask a newbie question, there are equally as many that will delight in giving you bad info just for the fun of it or point you in a direction where you will be taken advantage of.
The adult internet is a business just like any other. In a business, you should not necessarilly count on your competition to provide you a map to success. There are times when a competitor will be friendly and give good advice, there are times when they will give you the map to failure.
Some suggestions:
Before trying to become famous on GFY, learn the business. Go to a newbie friendly board (there are several) and learn the ropes of both the business and how too survive on the boards (Voltar's place at http://www.vnwr.com is the place I reccomend but others will reccomend Toms and several others)
Before posting a slam on an established business or an established poster, make sure you are in the right. If you come out swinging and you are in the wrong, you will be squashed. You might not think that matters because, afterall it is just a message board but I guarantee you that if you fuck up on GFY, Oprano, Netpond, YNOT or any of the other big boards, your reputation will precede you to the other boards.
Be HUMBLE ! You are new to this biz. Act it ! Don't go running your mouth about shit you don't know. If you word your post correctly, you will usually get some pretty good feedback. If your post sounds like an attack, you will probably get attacked back.
BEWARE !! You are a lamb amongst wolves, a guppy amongst sharks, a new asshole just waiting to be fisted. Most folks on the boards are on them to make money. If we can make money by offering you good advice great. If we can make money by offering you bad advice, we will probably do that too.
If you are a gallery builder, free site builder, linklist owner, TGP owner, Many folks on the boards will rightly view you as competition. There is a finite amount of surfer traffic on the internet. Of the total amount of surfer traffic, a certain amount is looking for porn. We are all trying to get those porn surfers to click our link and join a site from our page. If we can give you advice to keep the surfers away from your site, we will probably give you that advice.
If you are a programmer, designer or other that are trying to get business from adult webmasters, again, many folks will rightly view you as competition. If we can steal your cusomers by giving you bad advice, WE WILL !!!
If you think this business is an easy, no work method at making bling, you are WRONG !! The days when you could just throw up a site and make lots of cash overnight are pretty much gone from the current model. It doesn't mean that they won't be back again, but right now, in the current environment, it will take work to build your empire. There are many amongst us who will think nothing about draining your wallet and leaving you crying in the threads about what bastards we are. There ae equally as many that will sit there and laugh their asses of at another newbie biting the dust.
Thats about all I have to offer in today's edition of "Pay it forward". Remember, if you decide that GFY is the best place to get your newbie info (or Oprano or any of the other big boards) You have been forewarned.
Nuff said.
(as always, this is all IMHO)
Newbies.... GFY is not necessarilly a Newbie friendly board (neither are Oprano, Netpond, Ynot or any of the other big boards)
There are plenty of people here that will give you excellent advice when you ask a newbie question, there are equally as many that will delight in giving you bad info just for the fun of it or point you in a direction where you will be taken advantage of.
The adult internet is a business just like any other. In a business, you should not necessarilly count on your competition to provide you a map to success. There are times when a competitor will be friendly and give good advice, there are times when they will give you the map to failure.
Some suggestions:
Before trying to become famous on GFY, learn the business. Go to a newbie friendly board (there are several) and learn the ropes of both the business and how too survive on the boards (Voltar's place at http://www.vnwr.com is the place I reccomend but others will reccomend Toms and several others)
Before posting a slam on an established business or an established poster, make sure you are in the right. If you come out swinging and you are in the wrong, you will be squashed. You might not think that matters because, afterall it is just a message board but I guarantee you that if you fuck up on GFY, Oprano, Netpond, YNOT or any of the other big boards, your reputation will precede you to the other boards.
Be HUMBLE ! You are new to this biz. Act it ! Don't go running your mouth about shit you don't know. If you word your post correctly, you will usually get some pretty good feedback. If your post sounds like an attack, you will probably get attacked back.
BEWARE !! You are a lamb amongst wolves, a guppy amongst sharks, a new asshole just waiting to be fisted. Most folks on the boards are on them to make money. If we can make money by offering you good advice great. If we can make money by offering you bad advice, we will probably do that too.
If you are a gallery builder, free site builder, linklist owner, TGP owner, Many folks on the boards will rightly view you as competition. There is a finite amount of surfer traffic on the internet. Of the total amount of surfer traffic, a certain amount is looking for porn. We are all trying to get those porn surfers to click our link and join a site from our page. If we can give you advice to keep the surfers away from your site, we will probably give you that advice.
If you are a programmer, designer or other that are trying to get business from adult webmasters, again, many folks will rightly view you as competition. If we can steal your cusomers by giving you bad advice, WE WILL !!!
If you think this business is an easy, no work method at making bling, you are WRONG !! The days when you could just throw up a site and make lots of cash overnight are pretty much gone from the current model. It doesn't mean that they won't be back again, but right now, in the current environment, it will take work to build your empire. There are many amongst us who will think nothing about draining your wallet and leaving you crying in the threads about what bastards we are. There ae equally as many that will sit there and laugh their asses of at another newbie biting the dust.
Thats about all I have to offer in today's edition of "Pay it forward". Remember, if you decide that GFY is the best place to get your newbie info (or Oprano or any of the other big boards) You have been forewarned.
Nuff said.
(as always, this is all IMHO)
and ynot, where we help webmasters build their sites and traffic on a daily basis. 
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