A question for the 'Old School' GFYers...
 

What made GFY so great back then? Has it really changed so much in a few years?

questions actually got answered back then
didnt have 19 "See sig" replies in every thread

Jesus Dialer !

There's suddenly a great deal of people with thousands of posts whose name I've never seen, have no idea what they do or who they are.
That sucks. Also I miss boneprones gazillion aliases and pimpdogs daily bannings and returns.. ahh, so many fond memories.

Word.

There are a handful of people with over 20k posts that nobody seems to know.

..also, Juicy has taken over. I'm not sure it's a good thing.
Excess is excess.

Indeed.http://sexy-celebs.net/hotlink/dot.gif

less surfers, more insightful or entertaining people around (labret, gary tough he ended up as a scammer was funny, boneprone!, thefly, teengodfather, toodamnfly, spacedog was pure entertaiment, amp had his good days, etc.etc.etc) 5 page drama threads were real drama and not fake, but nostalgia will do that to you even if the good old days were objetively worse.

Don't forget Nasty Jack :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

How could you ever forget that shit lol..

I haven't forgotten, I've tried though. That's the ONLY person ever to get me angry on a messageboard, goddamn he was stupid. I mean really dumb. lol. :)

yes, i started when the dialer issues were coming up, one of the first threads i read was snow talking about dialer $$$...that got me hooked

or how about boneprone in mexico, snow and dialers, absoluteseries with stolen content and stuff

the 1 millon posts contest was insane :upsidedow

Ohh, the drama involved in the GFY designer contest, that was great.

What made GFY great back then was simply this.

It was the first threaded board that webmasters opened their arms too and truly accepted.

Before GFY, Netpond had the boards everyone sent too. Prior to that, it was Ynot. All flat boards. I know back when GFY came out, I was very hesitant to move all of Netpond's boards to threaded, just didn't see it taking off. I was wrong.

GFY is a good board, no doubt, but doesn't hold a candle to Ynot when it comes to pure money making ideas. The difference of 5 years in this business is what seperates the multi millionaire program owners, and the gallery makers.

webmasters actually helped each other out, no fake drama, very little surfers, less satuation of programs (better conversions) cuz not everyone had their own programs lol ALOT less drive-by spamming, pretty much less of everything (in a good way.)

ahhh those were the days :)

spacedog? who the hell is spacedog?

http://coldcandle.com/sd

less surfers - more pornographers back then

I think a lot of that can be attributed to regulations as well. The rules today are so much different from even 3 years ago its almost like a different world.

How many of those old school multi-millionaire program owners could have had the same success in today's climate? And how many of them made their money without completely fucking over their customers?

There weren't a lot less BS threads back then. More business oriented. And hardly the usual lameO "would you hit it" theads and "see sig" posts.

Boneprone and Party Goat did it for me. The infamous popcorn bucket movie theatre story!

The story that boneprone told about bringing a box of Almond Roca to his teacher was great

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=43640

HAHA I forgot about the cat shit.

it all depends on the group that is posting at that time, i find GFY moves in alot of trends, when a certain group of people are posting i post less because i find them to be bigtime wannabes. but when there is a good core of oringal sounding posters GFY can be and is as great as ever.

i find there to be less and less original people out there in general.

back when there was one contest a month or two, and it was a pick the caption style.

now a contest a day.

But it still here and it will stay longer. I am glad I am part of this thriving webmaster hub.

more business less like a big yahoo group

Signatures changed a lot of things. I'd say it changed at least 25-30% of the experience.

Dumbasses like Vitasoy didn't exist back then.

You asking for people to give your broke ass a free domain.

Beautiful.

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DarkJedi
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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yep, thats true
if I make like 300$ a month - thats good for me

Drama threads where real. You new most of guys on here and even had them in your ICQ list. If you needed to know something or find out some info you even got real answers.
The old style funny threads will never come back the banter has gone.

Who are all of these new people?

You forget porncity and AWI too

I still love GFY the way it is now . provides my daily dose of entraintement.

Let's just say threads are more diluted right now ... there are still a lot of business threads

It constantly changes,drama comes and goes,still one of the best for new webmasters coming into it and bullshitting

In turn fucking us all over.... A little bit of creative billing is one thing, but what some of those guys pulled was crazy. We are paying for it now.

Unfortunatly the SMS/Mobile market is pulling the same scams now - fucking us all over for the long term once again.

totally a good mix of everything