Originally Posted by raymor

When I started, the industry DID regulate it self. Just in the last 24 hours there has been one great example of what used to be the norm. Evidence was presented that a company was banging cards. Gfy pulled their ads. This is the same gfy which was once skinned by a thieving tube site, so it's quite an improvement.

Many affiliates pulled their links. It used to be that practically every affiliate would pull the links. Self regulation at work.

You may recall that when gfy associated itself with the tube site, many webmasters caused them out and leading webmasters created a replacement forum at hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Gfy got the message and switched and got rid of the tube ads. Self regulation at work. Self regulation DOES work. We just need more of it.

Specifically, we need more webmasters to take the step they did with gfy. When hfy accepted tube ads, people didn't just boycott the tube sites. They boycotted gfy for associating with the tube sites. When the card banging thing just happened, gfy knew they didn't want to be associated with the offender. By making it "against the rules" to do business with an offender, the offenders are isolated and self regulation works.

That self regulation didn't eliminate all scum back in the day, of course, but it did isolate them, separating the scum industry from the porn industry. The scum could only host with scummy hosts who ripped off their scummy clients. The scum only got traffic from the scummy affiliates, who sent take traffic with stolen cards. By forcing the scum to do business only with other scum, all the scum were ducking each other over and keeping the scum in check.

To make that happen again, just do two simple things:
Don't do business with people who lie, cheat, or steal.
Don't do business with people who assist liars, cheats, and thieves.