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DarkJedi · 08-25-2005, 11:00 AM

What made GFY so great back then? Has it really changed so much in a few years?

ace0r · 08-25-2005, 11:05 AM

questions actually got answered back then
didnt have 19 "See sig" replies in every thread

Dugmor · 08-25-2005, 11:07 AM

Jesus Dialer !

Jakke PNG · 08-25-2005, 11:07 AM

There's suddenly a great deal of people with thousands of posts whose name I've never seen, have no idea what they do or who they are.
That sucks. Also I miss boneprones gazillion aliases and pimpdogs daily bannings and returns.. ahh, so many fond memories.

Sly · 08-25-2005, 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TeenGodFather

There's suddenly a great deal of people with thousands of posts whose name I've never seen, have no idea what they do or who they are.
That sucks. Also I miss boneprones gazillion aliases and pimpdogs daily bannings and returns.. ahh, so many fond memories.

Word.

There are a handful of people with over 20k posts that nobody seems to know.

Jakke PNG · 08-25-2005, 11:10 AM

..also, Juicy has taken over. I'm not sure it's a good thing.
Excess is excess.

DarkJedi · 08-25-2005, 11:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TeenGodFather

There's suddenly a great deal of people with thousands of posts whose name I've never seen, have no idea what they do or who they are.
That sucks. Also I miss boneprones gazillion aliases and pimpdogs daily bannings and returns.. ahh, so many fond memories.

Indeed.

Nickless · 08-25-2005, 11:13 AM

less surfers, more insightful or entertaining people around (labret, gary tough he ended up as a scammer was funny, boneprone!, thefly, teengodfather, toodamnfly, spacedog was pure entertaiment, amp had his good days, etc.etc.etc) 5 page drama threads were real drama and not fake, but nostalgia will do that to you even if the good old days were objetively worse.

demented · 08-25-2005, 11:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TeenGodFather

There's suddenly a great deal of people with thousands of posts whose name I've never seen, have no idea what they do or who they are.
That sucks. Also I miss boneprones gazillion aliases and pimpdogs daily bannings and returns.. ahh, so many fond memories.

Don't forget Nasty Jack

How could you ever forget that shit lol..

Jakke PNG · 08-25-2005, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by demented

Don't forget Nasty Jack

How could you ever forget that shit lol..

I haven't forgotten, I've tried though. That's the ONLY person ever to get me angry on a messageboard, goddamn he was stupid. I mean really dumb. lol.

corvette · 08-25-2005, 11:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TeenGodFather

There's suddenly a great deal of people with thousands of posts whose name I've never seen, have no idea what they do or who they are.
That sucks. Also I miss boneprones gazillion aliases and pimpdogs daily bannings and returns.. ahh, so many fond memories.

yes, i started when the dialer issues were coming up, one of the first threads i read was snow talking about dialer $$$...that got me hooked

FuqALot · 08-25-2005, 11:15 AM

or how about boneprone in mexico, snow and dialers, absoluteseries with stolen content and stuff

Nickless · 08-25-2005, 11:19 AM

the 1 millon posts contest was insane

Jakke PNG · 08-25-2005, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Nickless

the 1 millon posts contest was insane

Ohh, the drama involved in the GFY designer contest, that was great.

Anthony · 08-25-2005, 11:23 AM

What made GFY great back then was simply this.

It was the first threaded board that webmasters opened their arms too and truly accepted.

Before GFY, Netpond had the boards everyone sent too. Prior to that, it was Ynot. All flat boards. I know back when GFY came out, I was very hesitant to move all of Netpond's boards to threaded, just didn't see it taking off. I was wrong.

GFY is a good board, no doubt, but doesn't hold a candle to Ynot when it comes to pure money making ideas. The difference of 5 years in this business is what seperates the multi millionaire program owners, and the gallery makers.

Babagirls · 08-25-2005, 11:24 AM

webmasters actually helped each other out, no fake drama, very little surfers, less satuation of programs (better conversions) cuz not everyone had their own programs lol ALOT less drive-by spamming, pretty much less of everything (in a good way.)

ahhh those were the days

Doc911 · 08-25-2005, 11:25 AM

spacedog? who the hell is spacedog?

corvette · 08-25-2005, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Doc911

spacedog? who the hell is spacedog?

SleazyDream · 08-25-2005, 11:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TeenGodFather

There's suddenly a great deal of people with thousands of posts whose name I've never seen, have no idea what they do or who they are.
That sucks. Also I miss boneprones gazillion aliases and pimpdogs daily bannings and returns.. ahh, so many fond memories.

less surfers - more pornographers back then

Sly · 08-25-2005, 11:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anthony

The difference of 5 years in this business is what seperates the multi millionaire program owners, and the gallery makers.

I think a lot of that can be attributed to regulations as well. The rules today are so much different from even 3 years ago its almost like a different world.

How many of those old school multi-millionaire program owners could have had the same success in today's climate? And how many of them made their money without completely fucking over their customers?

sherie · 08-25-2005, 11:41 AM

There weren't a lot less BS threads back then. More business oriented. And hardly the usual lameO "would you hit it" theads and "see sig" posts.

lagwagon · 08-25-2005, 12:39 PM

Boneprone and Party Goat did it for me. The infamous popcorn bucket movie theatre story!

baddog · 08-25-2005, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by lagwagon

Boneprone and Party Goat did it for me. The infamous popcorn bucket movie theatre story!

The story that boneprone told about bringing a box of Almond Roca to his teacher was great

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=43640

lagwagon · 08-25-2005, 01:06 PM

HAHA I forgot about the cat shit.

MetaMan · 08-25-2005, 01:16 PM

it all depends on the group that is posting at that time, i find GFY moves in alot of trends, when a certain group of people are posting i post less because i find them to be bigtime wannabes. but when there is a good core of oringal sounding posters GFY can be and is as great as ever.

i find there to be less and less original people out there in general.

Pipecrew · 08-25-2005, 01:20 PM

back when there was one contest a month or two, and it was a pick the caption style.

now a contest a day.

reynold · 08-25-2005, 08:12 PM

But it still here and it will stay longer. I am glad I am part of this thriving webmaster hub.

tony286 · 08-25-2005, 08:14 PM

more business less like a big yahoo group

NoCarrier · 08-25-2005, 08:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkJedi

What made GFY so great back then? Has it really changed so much in a few years?

Signatures changed a lot of things. I'd say it changed at least 25-30% of the experience.

Dumbasses like Vitasoy didn't exist back then.

chadglni · 08-25-2005, 08:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkJedi

What made GFY so great back then? Has it really changed so much in a few years?

You asking for people to give your broke ass a free domain.

chadglni · 08-25-2005, 08:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chadglni

You asking for people to give your broke ass a free domain.

http://www.gfyboard.com/showthread.p...ghlight=domain

Anthony · 08-25-2005, 08:33 PM

Beautiful.

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DarkJedi
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yep, thats true
if I make like 300$ a month - thats good for me

Bake · 08-25-2005, 08:58 PM

Drama threads where real. You new most of guys on here and even had them in your ICQ list. If you needed to know something or find out some info you even got real answers.
The old style funny threads will never come back the banter has gone.

Probono · 08-25-2005, 09:16 PM

Who are all of these new people?

Doctor Dre · 08-25-2005, 09:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anthony

What made GFY great back then was simply this.

It was the first threaded board that webmasters opened their arms too and truly accepted.

Before GFY, Netpond had the boards everyone sent too. Prior to that, it was Ynot. All flat boards. I know back when GFY came out, I was very hesitant to move all of Netpond's boards to threaded, just didn't see it taking off. I was wrong.

GFY is a good board, no doubt, but doesn't hold a candle to Ynot when it comes to pure money making ideas. The difference of 5 years in this business is what seperates the multi millionaire program owners, and the gallery makers.

You forget porncity and AWI too

Doctor Dre · 08-25-2005, 09:20 PM

I still love GFY the way it is now . provides my daily dose of entraintement.

Doctor Dre · 08-25-2005, 09:21 PM

Let's just say threads are more diluted right now ... there are still a lot of business threads

Spunky · 08-25-2005, 09:22 PM

It constantly changes,drama comes and goes,still one of the best for new webmasters coming into it and bullshitting

Damian_Maxcash · 08-25-2005, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Sly

.........And how many of them made their money without completely fucking over their customers?

In turn fucking us all over.... A little bit of creative billing is one thing, but what some of those guys pulled was crazy. We are paying for it now.

Unfortunatly the SMS/Mobile market is pulling the same scams now - fucking us all over for the long term once again.

RogerV · 08-25-2005, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Doctor Dre

Let's just say threads are more diluted right now ... there are still a lot of business threads

totally a good mix of everything

Bake · 08-26-2005, 01:31 AM

Porncity was the first real webmaster board for me. For sure I learnt more there than anywhere back in 98. People soon forget or just dont know.

AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE · 08-26-2005, 01:37 AM

Its just a changing industry on a daily basis.

Evolve or die.
Reminescing the past I am done with.
I been fucked in business more than most of you whinners and I am still here.
I care not about the yesterday anymore.

Fuck yesterday.

Bake · 08-26-2005, 01:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlienQ

Its just a changing industry on a daily basis.

Evolve or die.
Reminescing the past I am done with.
I been fucked in business more than most of you whinners and I am still here.
I care not about the yesterday anymore.

Fuck yesterday.

I have never been fuck over is this buisness why have you?

DarkJedi · 08-26-2005, 01:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chadglni

You asking for people to give your broke ass a free domain.

but the thing is, in 4 years i wen't from a broke ass, to being set for life.
what did you acomplish ? thats what i thought.

get a can of Easy Off and go clean the ovens.

chadglni · 08-26-2005, 01:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkJedi

but the thing is, in 4 years i wen't from a broke ass, to being set for life.
what did you acomplish ? thats what i thought.

get a can of Easy Off and go clean the ovens.

The bums around the corner would be set for life in your country.

kad · 08-26-2005, 01:49 AM

it used to be 1005 better 2 years ago

AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE · 08-26-2005, 01:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bake

I have never been fuck over is this buisness why have you?

Honestly?
Because I was stupid.
Maybe I am still stupid but business has improved considerably.

DarkJedi · 08-26-2005, 01:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chadglni

The bums around the corner would be set for life in your country.

Your jealous rage is duly noted.

back to your :mcjob:, sockfucker.

Bake · 08-26-2005, 01:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlienQ

Honestly?
Because I was stupid.
Maybe I am still stupid but business has improved considerably.

In 8 years Ive maybe been screwed for a few hundred $
and yes I do about 20k a year in design work along with my other stuff. I have never been stiffed on payment for disign work it's not a big part of my income but hey If I have the time why not make a extra 20k.

Bake · 08-26-2005, 02:04 AM

Sorry I did get cheated out of few thousand on the first pairs hilton deal but I new the deal was a scam when I signed up I made some good money but never got my last payment for about 2.5k but then again I knew the deal and expected to fucked over so dose this count?

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Anthony Keyboard Warrior Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: One of the outer rings of Hell Posts: 9,653	What made GFY great back then was simply this. It was the first threaded board that webmasters opened their arms too and truly accepted. Before GFY, Netpond had the boards everyone sent too. Prior to that, it was Ynot. All flat boards. I know back when GFY came out, I was very hesitant to move all of Netpond's boards to threaded, just didn't see it taking off. I was wrong. GFY is a good board, no doubt, but doesn't hold a candle to Ynot when it comes to pure money making ideas. The difference of 5 years in this business is what seperates the multi millionaire program owners, and the gallery makers. __________________

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MetaMan I AM WEB 2.0 Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 28,682	it all depends on the group that is posting at that time, i find GFY moves in alot of trends, when a certain group of people are posting i post less because i find them to be bigtime wannabes. but when there is a good core of oringal sounding posters GFY can be and is as great as ever. i find there to be less and less original people out there in general.

08-25-2005, 01:20 PM	#26
Pipecrew Master of Gfy.com Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 14,885	back when there was one contest a month or two, and it was a pick the caption style. now a contest a day.

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08-25-2005, 08:14 PM	#28
tony286 lurker Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: atlanta Posts: 57,021	more business less like a big yahoo group

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