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.)
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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.
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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
