Hey, folks, this is just capitalism at work. Some will figure out how to make money in this market, some will fall by the wayside. You're like Montgomery Ward when all the discount stores started popping up. Sears figured out how to stay in business, Montgomery Ward didn't. It's your job to figure out how to be a Sears instead of a Montgomery Ward.
The way many of you are talking is like you have a right to be in business simply because you're here. And I really don't understand anyone complaining about newbies. They should be the easiest ones of all to beat. Just give them really bad advice. Tell 'em to build a pay site on a free host with images pirated from Alsscan and Playboy.
I know several successful operators of pay sites, and what most of them have in common is that they are pay sites with exclusive photo and video content which is updated frequently. Many of them are also working niches: cheerleaders, panties, preggers, etc.
It can be done, but it isn't done by whining and bitching about something that's unlikely to change. And BTW, if you want to remove a major irritant, figure out some way to to get rid of the newsgroups. If you got rid of all the give-away sites, there would after all still be the newsgroups.
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