Dear Eric :::
 

What is up with all the drama threads lately? Every day I log in and see the same names attacking people. Sure, everybody needs to blow off some steam once in a while but every single day? The same people? WTF???

There was a day when this board was a great place to do business but sadly...that is hardly what this place is good for anymore. Drama queens and trolls have taken over GFY and one has to wade through all the dog shit to get to anything with substance.

Eric, I'm sure I speak for an overwhelming amount of webmasters when I ask you to "please grow a pair...and clean this place up!" Please bring back the good ol' GFY. This is not a place where the industry meets anymore. You've single-handedly downgraded this board from a great industry business board to a board full of crybaby drama queens. A place where it's ok for the same people to come here day after day and attack others.

If a serious webmaster wants to do business these days, they almost certainly will do better by visiting one of the other adult industry boards. Those that still believe that business should be priority #1. Aside from a bit of entertainment value, GFY is practically worthless when it comes to doing real business. Especially compared to how important this place was to the industry back in the day.

If people stopped giving them the attention,the threads would drop.just place them on ignore or use StuartD's add on for FF

Notice that the people in the middle of the shit were all banned and recently let back in.

I hear your pain, but every banned person was unbanned a couple weeks ago.. GFY was pretty quiet up until that point.

Well if that's the case - congratulations Eric - you've achieved your goal :thumbsup

I get often warnings from friends on ICQ to see GFY as a troll board, certainly not a place to meet contacts :) and they were right. For good deals and new sponsors, i go elsewhere. On those other boards moderators have more eye for leading a conversation then thinking about advertisement income from sponsors who get trollers as affiliates.

Because it is how Dean says it is, I pretty much see it as a sandbox and treat it as such. Most others who still post here do. If they even bother to at all.

Regardless of all the bullshit, my own personal included...business does still get done here. Just don't count on it or expect to make it your bread and butter.

Eric is smarter than most of us put together.

Man.... that might really suck if you stopped posting...

I won't survive without your Carli Banks pics when you post new ones

I dunno about boring. But I DO know you could actually get some business done around here before letting the psychos run the asylum.

Now, to do any business, you pretty much have to fend off an endless swarm of trolls that have nothing to lose, and can bash you, your business, and everything about you on a whim without much in regards to the repercussions.

Some of the unbanned have turned over a new leaf. Others are back to the same old shit before getting banned. Worse yet, they follow you from board to board with the same antics getting banned, new nick, same shit, banned again.

This is either a business board, or a ... I do not even know what to call it now. The asylum board? A place where crazy, psycho stalker trolls come to meet like crabs in a barrel.

Even AlienQ was welcoming all these guys back until the dogs turned on him. He's not the only one. While some of the guys are nice to have back, and some have decided to change so they can still do business. Others are doing the same exact shit they did before with their main, and all the fake nicks, were banned.

Myself personally, I do not find 5-20 drama filled threads on the front page daily entertaining.

It's all what you make of it,take it for what it's worth,there are plenty of others out there but I found them slow and kinda boring.it may be a playground but it's somewhat humorous at times

I disagree. There are plenty of business deals to be had. The drama brings more eyes... the more eyes, the more business. Sure, maybe some more "business oriented" people don't like to read the drama... but plenty do. And even the ones that don't still read the board.

Now it's back to the "old West" style that so many really enjoyed years ago. Plenty of business was done then, too.

These new kids lack creativity is all. :1orglaugh

i still do more business here than on all other boards combined. and banning all controversial people only led to a drop in traffic.

and i like the entertainment.

Yeah, we'll see if you find it as "entertaining" if Yappo, or yourself, ever fall victim to the riots.

That much is true.

Being smart and having common sense is two different completely different things :winkwink:

I hear what you are saying mang.

I come to any board to do business. Whether laying the ground work for something current or future, throwing a few bones of wisdom from success and failures to the noobs or filtering through the bullshit to do some good business with people like business minded.

If warranted, I do not mind the occasional real deal drama threads like Verotel, people not getting paid, deals falling through, sites going out of business, etc.. But when I see 5 threads about some Jon Clark meltdown, or some of the others with equal or more threads daily going back and forth with the personal attacks it gets old.

If you come to GFY, or any board for that matter, for personal attacks and bullshit drama. You lead a pretty pathetic life. You may wanna push back from the keyboard, and go out into the real world for a change.

No offense meant or implied to any of those in the thread. I am speaking in 'generalities'.

Ignore the drama and do business.

I won't stop posting....but I do find myself posting less here because of all the idiots that Eric allows to call this place home. I've done a lot of business here over the years...especially when it was considered "the place" to do business. That was when business was the first priority. When they didn't allow mentally challenged trolls to rule the board. Attacking and running amuck like I see them doing day after day. Is allowing that kind of behavior here really good for ICS business?

I have. Last year I had a five-page flame thread where someone thought I was a scammer.

I found the accusation funny then and I do now.

sly = scammer!

Full of personal attacks on the same caliber with what is a daily occurrence here now?

I doubt that.

Nobody has a reason to personally attack me. If they did... so what? Like I care what someone else says.

All of these drama threads... they take two parties and both always play into it. You can't fight with someone that doesn't fight back. Does it make you a pussy for not fighting back? Not really... it means you have better things to worry about.

There is no reason to attack anyone on a personal level.

There is a difference when it comes to being a rep for some faceless monolith, versus actually OWNING the business your time, passion, blood, sweat and tears have went into for a decade.

I own plenty of my own things and do plenty of my own business. My time, passion, blood, sweat and tears have went into plenty. I have exchanged money with plenty of people right here on this board.

Fair enough hoss.

sly scammed me once, the fucking guy offered full service in his ad but never touched my peepee :(

Words of a wise man.

we've seen your sales stats and the fact that you try to come up with different crappy packages every other week to sell your content for next to nothing barefooties. you might be fooling youself, but everyone else on this board knows that you're in no position to down anyone for being a rep.

ever wonder why my post count is less than HALF of my join date :)

Tell that to Eric & Ice. They allow trolls to attack people every day on this board. Over and over and over again.

It must be good for business is all I can think. It brings in the traffic, which brings in ad dollars. The things some people will do for money :(

I wasn't downing anyone for being a rep toots.

I was simply pointing out that if I did not own the company, and that company was being attacked, I has less ownership in that fight then the person who owns the company. Which is how some smaller people, owners, whatever get pulled into these things in the first place. You are attacking their career and livelihood. Not just a job.

Furthermore, I am a small niche player. Never claimed to be anything more. I know my markets. I do well in my markets. So stop trying to putting words in my mouth.

Stick to the facts bitch.

Agreed. I suppose in the end it comes down to,... it's his sandbox, his rules.

But I feel you. I completely understand where you are coming from. I feel the same way sometimes. You take your morning/afternoon/evening break and pop on to see the latest happenings, yet find 20 threads with the same characters going back and forth like the day before.

It's like that movie, Ground Hog Day.

:2 cents:

Yes exactly. And it's just so ridiculous.

I know it's Eric's sandbox. And I know it's Eric's rules. But the fact that Eric would allow and approve of this kind of behavior here....says as much about him as it does about the losers that he allows to stay here and act that way.

You know, i've seen this SAME thing posted since a month after gfy was created in 2001. Seriously. Since then about a once a week someone will post this.

It has NEVER been a real business board. Not in 2001 and not now. Yet people come here every fucking day to post and read. This is gfy and it is what it is. If you want a 100% business board there are many other places to go to. Also since 2001. Just go to another board man. But no, you won't. You will keep coming back to this place full of trolls and drama.

Save the Drama for Obama!