This place is dying
 

A slow death.

too many race or other attacks :2 cents: people are tired of it. death? nah will be bull shtters left and little biz

adapt or die? or, evolving? :2 cents:

i lik poo?

Hello PiffStenis it appears that you have not posted on our forums in several weeks, why not take a few moments to ask a question, help provide a solution or just engage in a conversation with another member in any one of our forums?

It is rather quiet around here today.

I think with no World Cup games on today people are actually doing some work :1orglaugh

Dying?

This place is dead. Stick a fork in it.

This place used to move so fast you couldn't keep up with it.
Now... maybe 6 or 7 posts a day.

yes not much contests nowadays, it died when the rule changed to three contests on main page max, then forum died ... :Oh crap

yeah :( paper street is the most active sponsor here now.

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Perhaps you should start your own program and show us how its done. All I see from your sorry ass is news articles and "das racist" whining. You are one useless sig whore and big part of the reason this forum is dead.

my stalker is back one reason this place is dead. nothing but racist shit he post

So Negativity.
Much Hate.

So desperately want to be wanted? Still looking for an address to send your Fathers day greeting card to, DeMarcus?

Says the stormfront rep.

If there was less lurking from old and new posters like yourself and more posting then it would still move at a decent pace. Instead, i see threads pop up every so often from people saying the place is dead.

Doesn't make sense to me...

Well hello there. You is back?Got any ICQs for sale baller?

Just like everything in this mortal world :)

Haha...show me where I sell ICQ's, I can show you plenty of racist posts from you though. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

this place rocks!!!

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh proof or ban

I don't remember you selling anything kid :1orglaugh
So my best bet was ICQ numbers. Remind me what you do in adult?

this is what is a forum without paul markham, harmon and the beaner guy

As Mark Twain may have said once, "Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggarated" or sum such thing :pimp

Remind me of what you do besides suck cock for $20. :1orglaugh

Bring Mr. Markham back :thumbsup

Why do people care if "this place is dying"?

Do any of you get any biz done on here?

It's just a message board...originally for people in the adult industry biz to fuck around and have fun...and occasionally make some business connections.
It's not supposed to be full of thousands of people making non-relevant posts.

At least it wasn't supposed to be.

Take a look at my sig kiddo. I am the ubber affiliate.
How long does it take to make $20 flipping burgers for you? Four hours or more?
Let me guess, Monday is your day off.

All of the racist {AND bullshit "guess the..."} fucking threads are worse than annoying!
Bumping up ancient threads, to bring up some bullshit about the person who originally started said thread, who may or may not even be ON GFY anymore...that's just plain stupid.

Used to all the time.

Also, there used to be a lot of smart people (now all banned), players who would make interesting and insightful posts. You could learn a lot of stuff here even without conducting business.

Now all the interesting people are gone and the board is full of broke losers, bored kids mentally challenged "poo" posters.

Did your buds at Stormfront help you with that photoshopped image? Thats fucking impressive for a racist cock sucker.

Name a few. Not sure why would they ban smart people (unless + scammers).

We're not lurking. Well, at least I wasn't. (I won't speak for anyone else). I was all the way gone, for years. I checked out the front page maybe once a year for 5 minutes, and that was it. Really not sure why I started posting again, maybe boredom, but it's quite depressing to see the forum in such a state. There does seem to be a significant amount of cognitive dissonance here concerning a wide variety of things, and maybe that is what led to the downfall, others have moved on to more engaging conversations. Or, maybe it was industry politics, too rigid or too slack forum rules, I don't know, I wasn't here. Could be the people (characters) themselves. They have gone stale for the most part. You got guys like "theking" still replying to posts with "pigshit". The canned meme responses are played out. Few have evolved genuinely. It's also a very "closed" community. Newcomers are not welcomed without significant hazing and proof of their "value" to the industry.

As for me, like I said, I really don't know why I started posting here again. I have no reason or explanation. But one thing is for sure, I am not the same as I was when I was a regular. Pretty much the exact opposite. I have purposefully changed myself for the better. I don't drink, I don't use drugs, I think those that choose to do those things should be left alone, I'm not on any "medications", I'm not unstable, I don't see doctors, I'm not "bipolar" and never was, I wasn't in jail, I don't give a shit about money other than what I need to get me through the day, I defend the Constitution and our god-given natural rights, I support logic & reason, I'm not looking to impress anyone or make a "name for myself", or promote anything, or any of that shit. I am a messenger of truth, with a little humor thrown in here & there because, if you can't laugh at shit sometimes, you're already dead. That's all. In a nutshell, I have shed all that I presented myself to be in the past, and now present myself as I am. I have no secret (or public) alliances to anyone, and no PC filter.

Not sure how long I will post here this time, because there's just not enough life here. At least not that I have seen over the past week. Who knows, maybe everyone is just on vacation. Either way, it doesn't really matter to me.

Tons of people.

Banned for bullshit rules, who never came back.

Board admins don't realize that they are free content. Without content this site is nothing.

Would've been even more impressive if bottom-dwelling leech like you had them. Again, remind me what you do here besides spending you lunch break times?

It's a lot of paid threads of news stories from reddit. It's so weird seeing them with link to full article...

when i saw a program owner use a racial slur towards an employee of another program that was pretty damn low. he was not banned for it.

Not a big fan of free speech huh?

You had you chance to meet Duke in person at Phoenix gathering. What did you do tough guy?

He is not big fan of anyone with IQ above his room temperature.

Well look who's back, for now.....:) Nice post/explanation but I would be interested in how, specifically, you have 'changed'? Or am I to infer from the above post that, in the past, you were a drug-using alcoholic who did all kinds of nasty/cool things? LOL

As for evolving, I can only speak of myself here. When you left I think I had perhaps 16 paysites, now I have 84. Three Networks and three Affiliate Programs. A tube site is next, but a tube with a twist. Before I worked alone, now I have 9 employees. (I also dated a pornstar while you were away.)

As for GFY I still do business here but mostly post when I have a spare minute or two. I never spend a lot of time ON GFY at any one moment, I'm simply too busy these days, and getting busier. I actually think I will be posting less and less (to many a GFY-er's delight I am sure). Why? Being busier is one reason but also I am in my sixth year of being in this insane business. I have fine tuned my operation down to an almost science, and have made many, many contacts. Plus I now know HOW to reach people, or where to look, when I need something so GFY is not useful to me in that regard. Perhaps this is true for others but I still see industry vets posting now and then so I assume many are lurkers.

GFY is a great forum that could do with more contests and promotions. It's also a wonderful place for news, controversy and fun. Welcome back Amp, for however long you are here, and thanks for all the great advice and posts you've contributed over the years.

Now go fuck yourself. :)

You're one of the few people here who seem to actually be doing something..

How did you start in adult? as an affiliate, or did you move in and buy a program?

I love reading success stories

Specifically speaking, yes... everything I did, I did to excess. Drinking, smoking, partying, working, arguing, fucking around... I was obsessed with money and status, did a lot of stupid things I'm not proud of, acted like an ass, made bad investments in property, business, and people, was very conflicted on important issues & topics, and had a lot of "growing up" to do. I wasted my 30s and a good part of my 40s being confused, pretentious, petty and stupid. All that is behind me. I am no longer confused about anything, and I have put the childish "toys" away. Today, I am beholden to no one. I dug my own hole, and I crawled out of it myself. Such is life. It's a learning process and meant to be experienced, right? The good and the not so good. It's how we become who we are.

But this is just a forum. I suppose I'm back here out of some nostalgia for days gone by. There was a time when I considered being banned from here equivalent to cutting off one of my arms. Now I know better. The world is a big place. There are certainly far more engaging forums (non-porn related) out there. I'm on them from time to time in various incarnations.

I used to do a lot of business here. Even up until maybe a year ago. I still do here and there.

The saying "this place is dying" has been around for the last 10 years. Maybe it is right now, I don't know. What I do know is there are a handful of guys that are going way overboard with the race baiting and "calling out" for ridiculously petty bull shit. There are another handful of guys that make threads unreadable with absurd and disgusting pictures.

It was enjoyable to read at one time. Now any time you open a thread you wonder if you are going to get bombarded with "he's racist" comments or 80-year-old men with their dicks in their asses.

Don't ask me why I still read. I have no fucking clue.

It used to be the support forum for Amateur Pages.
Then it evolved into the support forum for Adult.com and all of their various programs.
Then it became an asylum for lunatics and kind of stood on its own for a while until it transformed into childish cliques and various groups fighting amongst each other like they were on 'Survivor' or something.
Then the rules began clamping down.
Then it was sold.
Then it was sold again.
Now I don't know what it's supposed to be.
It's like, the retirement home for old porn biz people and hangers-on.

Just to be clear, my intention is not to bad-mouth GFY, I'm just looking at it purely from a business asset viability perspective. In that regard, the forum is almost like it's been frozen in time.

Ah but what was "the change"? How did it happen? Did you read a book, take a class, go to rehab, get the shit beat out of you by a gang of thugs in the park at 4 am while trying to score, was it a WOMAN, what? I am glad you found clarity, and BTW I would also say being lost and confused in your '30's/'40's is somewhat standard for many people. :)

When I started in Jan.2009 I was living at home with my mother (yes, in the basement) and had ZERO money. I had to borrow the $750 CCBill registration fee from a friend in exchange for 10% of the business. I had no 'content' and knew nothing about computers other than using Microsoft Word (I was a journalist back in 80's-'90's).

So I shot my own POV amateur content (yes, in my mom's basement) trading pay for content exchanges and building websites - which I did not know how to do. LOL So I bought 'HTML For Dummies' and created my first paysites using Notepad (because Dreamweaver or any other WYSIWYG editor was too complicated for me). I went after the 'amateur' market for obvious reasons. I was adding a new website to my growing Network about once every 3 weeks.

My 14th website, Fellucia Blow, blew up nine months after being in business and I went from 3 sales a day (my peak) to 30+. Since then I've gotten a few more 'whales' and have become a much better designer. LOL But as I grew I realized I was spending nearly 90% of my time doing repetitive tasks so that's when I started hiring outsourced help. Earlier this year I acquired Ruff Davidson's Aggressive Network (44 websites) and his Aggressive Dollars Affiliate Program. I am still 'integrating' his stuff into my operation, a process I imagine will take 6+ months to finish.

The next step is my tube site (with a twist) along with other traffic sources I am creating (blogs, TGPs, etc). I am done with creating/acquiring paysites for awhile and am now focusing on traffic generation full time. We will see where this all leads...

I am also interested in finding a mainstream project to get excited about but that search continues. :)

I am running a contest, just launched it today - but it isn't for the board - but for my people. lol

AMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope you doing well my man good to see you here