Banning All Surfers - A solution.
 

After reading what AaronM posted about banning surfers I think he's right, this is "Where the industry meets" not "where surfers meet the industry"

I think that every member on this board should get an email questionaire sent to them that they must fill out and if it is determined that they are a sufer, their account gets shitcanned until they can prove that they actually contribute something to this industry.

Sorry but this is my :2 cents: and just how I feel it should be...

I'll even add a poll...

so then n00bs couldnt signup and learn the industry before creating their own site?

Sounds good!

Yeah, sufers begone.

You would at least have to have some workings in the industry already, if you don't have a site, you're not in the industry... If you don't do some kind of trade, you're not in the industry, therefore you should probably not be on a board that is talking about "industry" related topics. Or lately lack thereof.

i think most people start off as a surfer before becoming a wembmaster... Some come here to learn. I got here after an argument with my wife... I decided it would be better to type gofuckyourself into my browser than to tell it to my wife. Long behold I found what I wanted to do with my life.

I dont think its necessary.. easier on the admins to make a sticky post where 'outted surfers', trolls, and other GFY flotsum's names are submitted.

The top 5-10 names are deleted.... repeat every other month as needed.

i agree 100%

what about the people that dont have sites or trades but are still in the industry. (do you consider 'affiliate manager' a trade? and do you consider post whores being a trade? what about office managers for these adult companies which are on this board with no sites/trades other than the title of office manager?)

im just curious :)

i think this is very true, everyone has to start somewhere.

i like that idea :thumbsup

this could be a good idea, however it could go very wrong at the same time.

They could just google the answers.

The questionaire would take forever to do.

The best thing to do is just charge something reasonable like $500/year to access the forum that would get rid of 100% of the surfers and prevent saturation also.

lol 80% of the of people here dont make that much off of adult :)

you would loose 80% of the traffic thus killing the "community"

10,000 new babeblogs and tgps popup everyday. It would save the community. :winkwink:

What is this a solution to? The site being wildly successful?

no it would place a "barrier to entry" on the community.

plus again it would kill the community because some other forum would pop up really quick and the traffic would just shift to that one.

you think that would be in their intrests?

surfers = more page views = more $ in the pocket

exactly. the more people here the more money ICS/Playboy can charge top spot sponsors.

its that simple :)

Why would GFY want to do that? They're about page views and members in order to get the most advertising dollars they can.. This idea would reduce that.

No I don't think it would. It's not about supply. It's about supply and demand that drives business. :winkwink:

thats normally true, however in this case both the owners of this board would have no benefit to putting up a "barrier" for people to come onto this public forum.

not to mention, the 10,000 blogs that go up each day do push traffic and believe me, sponsors want to nab those people because each sale is worth it to them.

they drive traffic but they decrease demand in the process. for eg. 1:25000 is no better than 1:250 :winkwink:

I guess I'll just have to inhibit from participating on this poll..

ah fuck me , in the time i have been here as as a member and a guest , i haven't come across anything that would make me want to cough up that sort of money , sure there once in awhile there might be something that is relevant but the majority of it is just normal forum rambling words from attention seekers


what you people need to get into your mind is that this place is a commercial place , it has long since left the days of being " where the adult community meets " and has just turned into " where you can buy your ad space "

Sure verify if they have a website, sounds good :thumbsup

Yes I like the idea, very good.

lol
poor adult.com team
all the thousands of emails...

yea.....surfers will click on the banner and actually signup to a sponsor

why dont you actually think...

It's an interesting idea, but I don't think it is viable. I think just going through and killing the obvious sigwhores would help a great deal. The board has very little business on it these days and even when a good business thread comes up, it's usually off the front page in a matter of minutes.

Getting rid of some of that nonsense and those who clearly are not in the industry would help a great deal. It would put less clutter on the forums and less noise in each good business thread. It's not hard to pick out guys like squishypimp and just ban them. It's one thing for someone new to come, read, ask a few questions and work, it's another to post 200 times a day and call it "learning".

bump to the top, this needs more votes

Here is another idea. How about just killing the sigs on people till they prove they are in the industry? Lets face it, guys like squishypimp wouldn't be here if they didn't have a sig. This idea would also give more value to those with sigs and hopefully bring back valuable posters as their sig and views would be worth much more.

now that is a great idea, or you must prove you work for some company...

Squishy: Remove your sig for 2 months to prove you're not here for signature revenue.

We all know you won't do it.

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Same thing for madawgz

exactly what I was referring to :2 cents:

so what i get paid to post here...not a big surprise

ive been a webmaster for 3-4 years sooo...

im capable of doing mostly any webmaster job except for coding...i know my way around the block

have a good one!

i wont be posting as much when i have eatmyshorts finished...

I decided to try my luck with this industry early 2002 so I started reading the industry sites like xbiz.com or pornresource.com and in the same time I had someone designing a simple site for me ( didn't have much tech skills then, in fact I still dont have them lol )


then I started in this industry June 2002 and actually in same month I registered on GFY, because I saw it linked on another forum ( somone linked a thread with thehun cars )

So I registered here and decided to post while I was still making next to none money in the first 3-4 months.

But my attitude was completely different than people like madawgz or squishypimp nowadays, I wasnt an attention whore and I wasnt seling my sig ( well, if someone told me I could sell it I'd probably have done it though, Im doing it today but the money from it isnt significant to me obviously )

The problem is that its a total anarchy nowadays,. all the newbies who arent even in this industry start making lots of threads about themselves and voicing their opinions on other matters pretending that others should care about it. And they dont have respect to anyone...

kill the surfers and the sigwhores!

I think what people are saying is that they don't want people who are being paid to post. It should be people posting because they want to post and it has some bearing on their business.

okay so you mean nobody should be able to sell their sigs?

I don't care about sigs, so I'd personally say no. I think you should be able to put your site in your sig or the program/company you work for. Otherwise, I'd say no.

What it all comes down to is paying your dues.

If you paid your dues by being on the road as an affiliate manager, shooting content for mortgage money, grinding code for 8 bucks an hour, spending long nights in a server room, etc.. most established people here (successful or not) have paid their dues for this industry in some fashion.

You can't lump everyone together though. I don't have a web site but I shoot and edit video and have been trying to gain some business contacts and hopefully get some work. But being that I don't have a site that makes me a surfer by your guidelines.

However, I'm not here making 50+ posts a day either because I would rather just make posts in threads that I can actually relate to or maybe add some input. Not all people who have no sites are surfers or sig whores...

I'm going to have to disagree here. What about the webmaster just getting into the industry? Banning people from this board and creating a a model where you must be accepted into the community smacks of elitist bullshit. Sure, ban the idiots, but don't close the doors.

You did not read my post above

what about me? some say im a surfer, well, i really am, only because i recently got OUT of adult, but i have been in the webmastering biz for 6 years and adult for 4+... but now that i decided to take internetting as a hobby again, im a surfer, thus i would be banned... which isn't cool, because i like the atomosphere here and i also like to keep up on whats going on in the biz...