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I lurked for the first few years here after the board was initially launched. In 2005 I decided to join as it really began to grow into a great place to conduct a lot of business around that time and sort of aggregated many of us who were members of other boards.
GFY has always had its share of tirekickers, lowballers, wannabes, and surfers, but by 2004/2005, the demographic of GFY was far and away more conducive to conducting business among your peers and with those serious about doing business. However, each year since, the demographic seems to continually be a shift more towards the surfers, non-industry people and the typical lowballers/tirekickers. Certainly there are a lot more hobbyists these days than in previous years.
I find a lot of the more serious players here do their business behind closed doors, emails, phone calls and messengers versus posting publicly. I know for myself, 95% of my business dealings directly related to GFY are done off the boards and out of public view.
I think that is mostly due to the shift in dynamic of the board itself these past few years. It'll be interesting how things change, if at all, now that Playboy/Adult.com no longer has anything to do with this place.
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