I want to buy this.. SPANKFINDER
 

http://www.spankfinder.com/
Okay, so, anyone got any idea of what it'd be worth?
I probably don't have enough.

I'd like to open it up let the users breathe a bit more. Post pictures of whatever they want. Get it on a decent server. SEO it out (which I can't do to save my life, but I could make someone do it for me)

Would I be better off starting one of my own?
I have spankoforum.com which would make a great sister site

Email the owner and ask if hes interested in selling it.

and I want to buy Google.

I want to by Microsoft and Apple

too much talk too little action

Probably makes less than a grand a month from the looks of it.

I'd guestimate it's worth around $4000. Offer the owner half :)

BTW, this is the last place you should mention potential acquisitions. There are so many industry people who eye the board, some of them might just snag that now it's on the radar a little.

Do you actually own it and this is a cunning stunt?

My girlfriend, whose site this is, says:

"Ha!"

She's running it as a non-commercial site for the spanking community. She doesn't make a dime and isn't interested in selling ... as she told this fool a couple of days ago. It's more of a service thing -- something she's doing to help all of the people in our community who are tired of getting jerked around by the fake profiles and endless dick pictures on the pay BDSM dating sites.

And by the way, it's the top google result for "spanking personals" -- just how much more SEO do you think it needs?

And if she did want to sell it, I sure as hell wouldn't let her sell it for cheap. You're right, you do not have enough.

Well that solves that!

I still want to buy Google!

how much will you offer to buy google.com i offer higher price. LOL

What a nice guy you are. :helpme

Don't know, but I might message Crimson Moon!

Nah, I was just curious about what people would think it was worth
I was 99.99% sure I couldn't buy it

I didn't receive a response, when I asked.. Why am I a fool for wanting to buy it and run it a little differently? Give the users some freedom, get it on a faster server? If you're so concerned with what spankos have to deal with on other sites, why shoot someone for asking questions or suggesting change?

Why so "standoffish"? I don't see where I've tried to compete with or attack you in any way..

I, for one, don't understand people who are so concerned and involved with a cause and then sabotage it by treating other people with the same interest like they don't matter.

I've cancelled my membership. I don't need your over policed slow loading website. It's a shame that you think that alienating people of the community, and not giving your members any freedom is the right way to run your Spankfinder site.

Best of luck to you, anyway, I don't carry grudges.
I think you're a real asshole.

You might want to check your filters, dude, because she most certainly sent you one. She showed it to me last night after this thread popped up. It told you she wasn't interested in selling. It was, ah, quite clear.

I called you a fool because you are criticizing something you fundamentally don't understand. You think you could do it better, but you don't have the first idea why what she's doing has worked so well -- mostly having to do with the hundreds and thousands of hobby hours she's invested into serving a subset of the spanking community you apparently don't even think exists, putting a great deal of personal effort into creating a community you want to shit on by eliminating the rules that make it unique and popular.

Because you're bitching about the flavor of the free beer. What part of "the site is 100% free" don't you understand? If people didn't like it, would she really have six thousand active members? Ask some of the guys here who actually know the online dating business, how hard it is to build a dating site with six thousand active members (much less, six thousand of them in the same fetish niche) up from nothing. It's a huge accomplishment.

Yeah, she likes to moderate the profiles pretty tightly, weeding out explicit pictures and people who want to roleplay spanking little kids. It's her freakin' hobby, those things don't make her happy, why shouldn't she set the rules the way she wants them? It's a free site and six thousand active members seem to enjoy the way she's got it set up. If you don't like it, there's always alt.com, or you could start your own site using the same free software she's using. Come back and post when you've got six thousand active members, all of 'em waving their dicks proudly in their profile pics and wondering why they can't find a woman to spank.

The world is full of people who look at something and say "I could do it better" ... but instead of doing it better, they sit on their asses and bitch. You're just the latest in a long line of people to come along and tell her she's doing it wrong. However, you are the first one I know of to speculate in public about buying the site, after being told in private it wasn't for sale. Yeah, that earns you a little bit of public derision, in the best traditions of the "Go Fuck Yourself" forum.

Cause? We're talking about helping people find bottoms to spank here ... it's fun and it's useful and it's appreciated by the spanko community, but it's not fucking Abolition.

My girl is still asleep this morning, but I'm sure this news will ruin her whole day when she wakes up. Or, more likely, not.

Not mine! I don't even own the domain.

Again, not my site. And I don't even know all the rules over there, so I don't know what "freedom" you think is so vital, that people don't get for their zero dollars when they sign up. The rules I hear about -- because my girl gets to ranting about people being too dumb to understand them or too arrogant to think they have to comply with them -- are the rules against explicit profile pics (which men mostly want, and most women on the site hate to see, guess which members are more vital to the long term success of the site?), the rules against advertising for age play (which is a purely editorial choice of the site's proprietor, she'd rather not be running a site where people advertise for "grown up little girls to spank" and can you blame her?), and the rules against showing pics of other people in your profile (which is just stupid, but people do it).

It doesn't really matter if that's "the right way" for her to run her site. It's her way, and it's working, and anybody else could do it another way with the same free software she's using, or by paying a ton of money for better faster software, if they happened to want to throw that money down a freesite rathole. Me personally, I think it's lame and sad and weird to criticize a service somebody provides for free.

Hey, guess what? We agree on something! :321GFY

Wow fork, get off the pedal stool dude! I don't see anything wrong in his post for you to bash and talk to the way you are talking! Emails get lost it happens but wow, are you one of the millions that get so jealous if another guy looks at your girl? Just wondering.

Naw, Fungus. If you're following along, I was bashing him a little bit before he said he didn't get the email. :winkwink:

By the "robust" standards of the debate around here, my response to MrMaxwell is actually pretty moderate.

My girl runs a dating site fer fuck sake, she gets mash notes all the time. We got trust, I got no issues there. But a guy comes along, tells her she's doing it all wrong and he could do it better when he's got no damn clue what's involved, then comes here (of all places) and says the same thing to the world? Hell yeah I'm going to point and laugh. The special magic of GFY is that it's possible here to be professional to them as deserves it and rude to them as don't.

pedal stool? lolz

Yea wanted to keep it zimple instead of saying Pedestal I spelled it out! :helpme

You don't have to write a book explaining how or why you run the site the way you do. I never really called all of that into question.

I'm telling YOU that I won't be a part of something run by people who think they're better than everyone else. If I'm going to catch hell for asking a couple of questions or making a suggestion, I won't be a part of it. Period. The only filter I have sends messages to a spam folder, which I've checked. If it didn't inbox, it'd be there.

A guy like me was an ASSET to your site. Maybe you'll learn to appreciate your members. I appreciated the site until you talked to me like I was a piece of shit. Do you have any idea how much better my profile was than those other guys on there?

As an aside, there's a female profile on there you really really better look into.. I won't go into detail, because I'm not out to hurt your cause (I'll help any way I can) but you need to get on that RIGHT NOW.

If you folks really care about what you're doing, drop the fucking attitude.
Appreciate questions and suggestions.
Otherwise it just becomes a place people go due to lack of there being another game in town. And then, there will be. And it may not be run by someone who even CARES about what they're doing.

And you're right, you have more genuine bottoms than any other site I've ever been to. I won't even try to say that I'm not hugely disappointed in having to ban you from me. But I go where I'm appreciated, and that has served me well, the past few months.

Yeah, you did. Re-read your original post. You make it real clear you think you could do it better. And you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about, because you haven't put in the time investment that's required.

That's a definite "pot calling the kettle black" situation. And I don't think we're better than everybody else, I just think "we" are better than you, at this particular task that "we" have been doing for years, and you have no experience at. Why do you think you're better than "us" at this? (The scare quotes are because I don't really have anything to do with it; it's all her.)

LOL, you're not catching hell. Are you always such a prima donna? This is GFY, man; by the standards of discourse around here, we're having a friendly discussion.

I've seen the outgoing mail, dude; I'm not making it up.

This has got me rolling on the floor laughing. First of all, for your utter lack of reading comprehension. How many times to I got to explain it to you? They aren't my members because it ain't my site. So you sure as hell aren't punishing me by depriving me of the all-caps "ASSET" that was your undoubtedly awesome and sexy profile. I'm sure you're too sexy for your shirt and all, but seriously? Get over yourself.

Being butt hurt because you wanted to break the rules of a dating site, then posting on a public forum that you want to buy the site so you can "open it up" to get around those rules, is not the same thing as asking questions and making suggestions. You weren't even talking to "us" when you made this thread -- you were telling the world how you'd like to run a site that's not yours. That's not how you make suggestions if you're actually trying to help.

It won't be better unless it's run by somebody who cares. And if it turns out to be better, that's a good thing, right?

I just received the response that I didn't get in the first place. It was very polite and detailed. I have to apologize to Ms. Bethie for assuming that she had the same attitude as this guy. She doesn't, and I was wrong for assuming that she did.

I won't be rude in this post because you're giving credit where due. I agree that my girl has created something special on Spankfinder. Seems to me you're shooting yourself in the foot if you stop using the site because the lady who runs it knows some guy who's an asshole on GFY. But, I guess that's your call.

She's a better person than me, and I don't deserve her, but she's still mine, all mine! :)

When in the hell did I post an all caps profile?
If I were your woman, I'd be violently upset with you for getting on here and speaking for her. I've actually apologized to her for assuming that she was as rude as you are. Her responses have been polite and reasonable.

I'm very displeased with you. Her, I would have gotten along with just fine.

It IS too bad that I let an idiot like you speak for her. It ended up ruining the experience for me. That's life. Shit happens. I don't back peddle. I would have stayed on if I would have known that it was "all hers" and that she was more reasonable.

I'll help upload fake profiles.


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Agreed.. She has a much much better attitude.
She hasn't exactly been "nice" today via e-mail, but she's reasonable
And I can't really blame her because you basically managed to bring me to wrath against her and she didn't have it coming. Now I feel stupid for reacting to you, and I probably am.

I think it's worth a lot.

YaY I'm in business
LoL over here
I'd never use fake profiles

These two keep assuming that I couldn't run it better, know nothing about anything.. I bet that I could give them a helluva run for their money if I took a mind to. Like I said in the first place, though, I've no interest in competing with them or hurting their cause.

I was quoting you, with quotation marks and everything. You said your profile was an "ASSET". (Note the caps -- not just an asset, but an ASSET.)

I think it will suffice to say that I'm very very glad you are not my woman. :1orglaugh

Ah, I see. Fair enough.

I wouldn't be quite so fast to throw that "idiot" word around if I were you. Why did you think I was speaking for anybody but myself, again? I quoted one word of hers in the first post, the rest is all me, as I've said repeatedly.

It just looked like, to me, that you had more of an interest in it than you do.
I read it as you speaking on her behalf, she's your bottom?
Just be nice to me .. you could always be replaced :winkwink:
I'm just kidding, in case you don't know that :1orglaugh

How do you say something like that to your bottom or where she can see it without shaking her faith in your leadership? I really do think that you're a "tool"
And I've never even used the word "tool" when not referring to something like a saw, or axe

That's foolishness.. I just don't understand you at all

LOL LOL LOL. Her ass may be mine, but her business is her own, and she's perfectly capable of speaking for herself.

We're straying far from the original topic of this thread now, but you and I obviously have very very different ideas about how the essence of a good BDSM relationship. Your comment seems creepy and controlling to me, but I'm aware there are a lot of BDSM people who do things that way quite happily. Not judging, just saying it's not how things are with us.

Well, maybe judging a little bit -- if I had a sister, I'd warn her not to date you. :2 cents:

Spankfinders.com available, add to cart.

Grabbed, thanks!

You're trying to say that you're into erotic spanking rather than having a domestic discipline lifestyle. Sigh. DD is Creepy, huh? CREEPY? What's wrong with you? It's a very very good thing for a woman who needs it.. and more do than you obviously are aware of.

Do her a favor and don't ever speak about her site again. And if you do, don't admit to being involved.

That's a lowlife move and it won't get you anywhere
Spankos aren't going to fall for any of your shit
They're alot smarter than the average surfer
Burn another ten somewhere, big fkn deal

I didn't grab it you idiot.

Find another related domain and set it up yourself. It looks like spankingfinder.com is run by some dutch mob who want to sell it, it redirects.

The hell if I will
If I started one I'd never copy someone elses name
I don't have the skills to build the member base they have
I'm STILL confident that I could run the site, that is why I would have had interest in buying it when I thought that it was a hobby site.

Now I know that the lady has her heart and soul in it and would never sell it so I should try to copy it?

I won't apologize for calling you a lowlife when you said you grabbed that domain.. if you did, you were.

That is using OS date which is a free script for which you can buy addon modules and templates very cheaply. You could make up a site based on a similar niche very easily

Don't put words in my mouth. I said your comment seemed creepy to me; I didn't say a bad word about DD. The creepy part is assuming that everybody who is into spanking must also have a domestic discipline lifestyle; or, to be even more specific, assuming that a particular woman you never met wants or needs anybody's "leadership".

You first, dude. Who started this thread again? Hint: not me.

you sound like a motivated buyer. price just went up.

You did give me an idea.. I found a pretty cool domain and "grabbed" it
SpankOH.com
I like it

I never assumed that every woman who wants or needs to be spanked is interested in DD, either. Every woman has different needs and wants.

You also reminded me to renew spankoforum.com .. almost forgot, hell
Maybe do something with that someday
Had it a couple years and forgot it was even in there

you guys are funny

mrmaxwell would fail if he took over that site, his amount of knowledge in that fetish niche is almost nill.