k will let you knwo if i get any bites

those who are on here and not jhust surfers are here cause they are bored and wanna fill some time

i don't have anything to advertise really, and the things I do are all under this roof, i don't require much use of other people too much...so does that mean I can't bullshit on here

if you want a real board that conducts real business, there are PLENTY of others...

but if you have to bitch about this having enough business, you aren't looking in the right places or you might just be bored of all the bullshit, in which case...take a week off, grab yourself a nice cold case of beer...then come back with a breath of fresh air in your lungs

I'll finish reading this later...gimme a couple of days. :winkwink:

There is still good info on the boards, but I too am getting sick of having to sort through so much shit to find the pearls.

same, I'd buy a GFY membership if nescessary - this place is so entertaining

sad but true.

Bump for a great post.

Great idea Marty...

Some type of adult related board...



Hmmm....


I think i own adultrelated.com.... :)


Le me know if you need any help if you want to get this started...

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?

I say everyone pays, no free hand outs in life why should anyone get a free pass in this biz.

A paid board is not a bad idea at all, if you want to do business in a professional enviroment part of the cost of doing business could be a business board.

Airek get Marty some lunch he seems grumpy today, get you ass out of the coed sauna at the gym and help your man out.

Marty sign me up for an executive locker at your new board.

But, lets keep a board too for some fun, life is to short, this board is great for having a good time, and business is being done here just in a nice relaxed manner.

Marty can I post stuff like this on the new board?

http://www.miniclip.com/dancingbush.htm

50 Waiste Case Webmasters And Industry Whores...

Sig to Big

my penis is big

+ imagine how hard it would be to start a paid board, that's comming out of the ground. Stupid idea. Some of us enjoy the bullshit, a paid section would be more smart.

Marty,

I have stated numerous times on this board that I don't understand why people get so disturbed with "spam" threads. I believe the last thread I commented in was Lars and Ellies.

The other day, a group of people suggested a special forum for domain sales. Interesting, no one has suggested a special forum for the drama threads. I would rather see a list of available sub-standard domains than see people arguing and spilling personal info left and right.

I have no problem with the humerous, non-serious threads, but when people are conducting business, others should really lighten up.

IMO, it's really not complex.

The board I frequent divides it up. It has a board just for chatting and fucking around.

If you try that on the other forums, your thread is pulled.

If you continue to be too much of an asshat, you are banned.

Oh, and most important - it can't be a democracy. It has to be a benevolent dicatorship.

too many surfers on this board, thats why.