Let's put this to bed: Are There Too Many Surfers On This Board ?

[luv$]

It's a big topic lately. Everyone is tired of it, I know I am.

If you're just "starting out" please know there are a TON of boards out there with much more helpful and friendlier people who WANT to show others how to make money in adult.

I'm sure a paid membership isn't a solution, as it could mess with the advertising numbers.

We've seen GFY try to *slow it down* by limiting link and image posts until people reach 30 posts. We thank you for this!

But more needs to be done.

We have more mods now than we have in a while, and surprise! They're not going on psychopathic rampages

What more can GFY (and it's community do) to stop the nonsense?

A suggestion would be to make it a new GFY rule that you can't participate in contests unless you've been registered for X amount.

As far as what YOU can do; take the link off your damn websites. You're not helping anything if you have a link to GFY (or any other webmaster board for that matter) on the pages frequented by surfers. *ahem*



Thoughts pleeeeeeeease?

[gooddomains]

Too many surfers? Can't be. There are still some serious threads posted every day and it's all about fun, ain't it ?`

[jimmy-3-way]

"luv$
// ~ Sapphic Cash ~ \\

Join Date: Dec 2004"

Whatever, surfer.

[polish_aristocrat]

it's all about fun, ain't it ?`

who said it?

[luv$]

"luv$
// ~ Sapphic Cash ~ \\

Join Date: Dec 2004"

Whatever, surfer.

It's too bad the search function doesn't work past a year. I had a nick back in '02, 'entrpnr' that was banned during a psychotic breakdown of Amp. Was just gonna link it but it looks like I can't.

I've been around for a while bud.

And you were so nice in San Diego.


And as an FYI there are a few people on here with regdates far beyond 04 who are doing nothing but trying to win shit in contests and fwap it to content.

[fallenmuffin]

Yes, way to many.

[Pron Don]

how do we know if someone is a surfer or not?

ugh, i wish they could just make the account sign up process harder, like make you give proof that you run a site or something

[BobG]

surfer here :-)

[luv$]

surfer here :-)

You gonna be in Vegas !?

[Why]

considering what they bring in in advertising dollars you think they could afford someone to check all the applications properly or something.

in the end it wont happen, gfy is always a battle. get used to it.

[tranza]

The surfers are voting no.....

[marketsmart]

where do i sign up for all these contests i hear about?

i am here only for the fabulous gifts and prizes....

"surfs up dude"

[pr0phet]

one day someone real smart will buy a banner for a paysite....... they will soon retire. I bet that person wont vote against the surfers.

[nestle]

Well, they just added a few more mods to their team so I'm hoping they did that for a reason and not just for shits and giggles.

I have been a volunteer moderator at a pretty large mainstream forum (not as many posts as GFY but no contests either ), the forum is the largest one in its industry. One of the thing about a growing community is how the rules have to evolve to accomodate its growth. There's a certain point in a community's growth where "anything goes" type of rule can become more of a burden then not and inhibit proper growth. This is probably the reason why luv$ has to bring up such threads and rightfully so.

My personal suggestions for GFY:

I think there should be a separate contest forum and is only visible to people who have XX posts and/or have been registered for XX weeks.

Newly registered members can only post in the 'Webmaster Q & Fuckin' A' forum for X weeks and/or have XX VALID posts (not bullshit one-liner posts)... frankly because spammers and people who would register just for contests aren't that patient.

(The above two suggestions can be done with vb features and/or simple mods.)

People selling shit should post in the 'Sell and Buy Forum' and not in the 'Fucking Around & Program Discussion' - I see this happening all the time. Either merge the two forums together or give it a reason why there is a separate forum to post shit you have for sale. I know the reason why they post it in the right forum, because this forum is more popular.
(this one will involve moderators actually moderating.)

If you're just "starting out" please know there are a TON of boards out there with much more helpful and friendlier people who WANT to show others how to make money in adult.

I don't think GFY is a bad resource for adult webmasters starting out. Being a webmaster is nothing new to me. However, I admit (hope I'm not lynched or stoned for saying this) that I'm a newbie adult webmaster; I've started out a few months back and I have learned a shitload of things from reading and searching and talking to people on ICQ from GFY that wasn't relevant at all to being a mainstream webmaster.

On the otherhand, I do consider GFY a bad resource for complete newbies that come in here to ask things like "what is ftp?" because I can only estimate 1 out of every 200 long-term GFY member will give the poor guy the answer he needs.

</rant> (not really finished with my thoughts but I ran out of time and gotta go... I'll be back.)

FYI, I remove my sig for all of my serious posts

[MetaMan]

i am just here for the free porn.