An apology would have earned a lot more respect than blatant spin-doctoring. Even an honest, "times are tough, we take what we can get", would have earned more respect.

So you put up the skin to create debate and took the money to fight thieves. Umm yeah, ok.

ahh - I forgot about that one. thanks.

What a load of crap.

This is some sort of big practical joke, like the Ibill thing right?

You are all sheep :2 cents:

Ice's new name should be HEAT :1orglaugh

tube sites should be like our http://www.iTeenVideo.com - only copyrighted content :)
or it should have only real home made content from all over the net. But it should not steal content and make everybody think like users posted it

You kidding me? LOL... come on man, you can do better than that. :1orglaugh

Actually if you really think about it was a great marketing for GFY. Look at how many boards was talking about GFY.

The bottom line is money and GFY has always been that way. Just take a look at past history with threads getting deleted that involved some big names in the industry that had their hands in the cookie jar. Still this companies are allowed to run their ads and contest threads.

Gary

What? Serious question, not a dig.

More great marketing - http://www.********.com/read.php?ID=37560

Anybody else noticed the "side effect" ?

All lurking (old) nicks starting posting again....

It's not about banning. it's about GFY ex skin and illegal tube advertising. Hypothetically you could sell spot to everyone, even to zoo sex providers? that's really bad. GFY team don't respect legal webmasters who working really hard to make some cash in this industry.

I don't get why people complain when others are trying to make money in a legit way (selling ads/skin)

I'm a part time affiliate, since 2004, who runs this network of sites: http://www.sharphead.net/trades.php

My sig is purchased until the end of this year...on this board and every board I post on. I choose NOT to run a program or open a solo site, just doesn't fit with my lifestyle and to be honest.. i'm getting too old to get into that bullshit anyways.

There you go... now I gotta run.. be back later tonight... my manager at McDonalds phoned me up and asked me if I could start early tonight, and since the tubes took all my sales away, I got to work some overtime this week to make up for it. :2 cents:

Nice.. when I build more teen sites maybe we can trade.

Yeah.. my manager at Wendys is a real bitch. She'll dock my pay if I'm late. I gotta go steal some cases of burgers from McDonalds before going to work. We're giving burgers away free, and selling some little toys and DVDs - we think it's a great business model.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gfy.com ya quite a boycott with the alexa shooting up.:1orglaugh

I can`t believe it !!!

Sure it built a bit of drama and some backlinks. Was that intentional? I doubt it.

They have to do something to make interest, because as the affiliate model dies so dies GFY.

Eric you got mail!!!!!

Tomorrow will be even a better day.

People talk shit of boards, its like they're behind a skirt..

Good stuff :D ...

I agree. It's more like, "uh oh we fucked up - time for damage control"

Surfers heard the word is out that gfy has more free porn.. Tube8 search on Google must have related that... :)

haha ya thats it. Would be a good time for a sponsor to step up and skin the board if they don't want the spot filled by a skin they don't desire. :2 cents::winkwink:

I just wanna say, I was at this momentous occasion, see Sticky's sig, I don't have one.

You guys caught a lot of heat from people who contribute to what they rally against albeit unknowingly at best. You can't please everyone 100% of the time, plus were they rushing to give you 25k to prove their point? AND free traffic? Doubt it.

Now that is the fucking truth!!

150 welcome back posts.. .

And what are you going to do?

Complete and utter bullshit gfy. I agree with HowlingWulf...when are we gonna see a torrent skin?

are you fucking kidding me? you guys fucked up and that should be your appology, not some bullshit excuse playing it off as some kind of noble and worthy cause.

would it be ok if i sold drugs as long as i donate part of the money to drug rehab programs?

or how about if i use hidden pre-checked cross sales as long as i donate a portion of the proceeds toward credit card fraud!

this is almost as bad as the board skin! this just shows us how stupid you think we are.

oh and by the way, this is not how you have a "healthy" debate over a topic. pick a topic like religion, politics, health care, ect....not fucking around with someone's hard work and income.

so so so stupid.... jesus, are you kidding?

Eric happy Yom Kippur!~!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy to see you have an oppenion on this :upsidedow

Like always :upsidedow

oh, and by the way...why the fuck would a tube site owner pay a shit load of money to advertise on a board that hates those fuckers in the first place!

this seems like a double slap in the face. they spent the money just to fuck with us and you guys helped them.

What a refreshingly honest response, kudos to you for not feeling the urge to write yourself up as a millionaire like everyone else :thumbsup

The guy doesn't care about anything and is about as intelligent as a rock so his opinion wouldn't matter either way.