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Originally Posted by ermac
To be honest I'm afraid of the backlash if I do anything to significant to impact the user experience as far as ads or mining goes.
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That's a smart thing to be thinking about, but you're not making any money right now. You're worrying about long-term value of your site when you don't even have any current value. You can disrespect your users a little bit and still retain most of them, and make a lot more money. Fuck the users that stop visiting when you show them a few ads, they were never gonna make you any money anyway. They don't matter.
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Originally Posted by ermac
My privacy is very important to me. I don't want to have to face a lawsuit just because I ignored a dmca for too long or went on vacation and didn't respond to a takedown request in time. And that's my fear of using traditional advertisers: some copyright Bulldog hassles an Advertiser enough and they might just get my name and address. To me it's just not worth the risk even if significant money is involved.
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Observation: You seem to be intensely risk-averse and just not willing to do the things you need to do in order to make money.
I miss DMCA requests all the time. They go to spam, I'm on vacation, I'm on a bender. You know what happens? 99% of them give up (I'm small fries anyway, and so are you, we're not worth much time or effort to a content owner), 1% go to my hosting provider (who contacts me and you better believe I respond to THOSE. I've fucked up and missed one before and got HTTP access to my server disabled until I removed the content). Which people do you think are serious enough to pursue an expensive lawsuit? Yeah, the ones contacting your hosting provider. How many people would be dumb enough to waste money filing a lawsuit before at least TRYING to contact your hosting provider? Not many.
My recommendation? Ignore every DMCA request that comes to your email, like you're currently doing, but ask your hosting provider to forward any takedown requests that THEY receive to you. Respond to those. Remove the content. (it's a chan anyway, isn't the content automatically removed after a day or two?)
Then you can put ads on your site and feel more safe that someone won't try to get your info from an advertiser--if they're that serious, they'll be going to your hosting provider first. PornTrex has exoclick ads, infringing content, and 50x your traffic; have they been shut down? Nope.
If you just can't fathom the idea of doing something with a tiny amount of risk in order to make money, adult's not for you.
Good luck!