I have a crazy Idea...What if everyone here on GFY got...
 

Verified, like some sites do to make sure they are not a fake nic. We take around 100 credible people and start a site together. Not sure what kind of site it would be, but it would be a team effort venture. Some of the traffic guys can send traffic, I can do the billing, graphic guys, coders, everyone can put in their knowledge and we can have one big massive Industry Site with Verified Adult Players.

All the money goes into a joint account and gets split equally after expenses.

Would this be Doable?

These clowns here would rather destroy each other than build something.

I'm up for some cat herding...

That is a crazy idea!

100 might be to large a number to maintain any type of 'equality' as far as work and load.

The idea is great, but I think the logistics of it all would require less players. And I'm certain there are NUMEROUS combinations of 10-15 people that could flip things upside down if they put their minds to it.

this is racist, you want us to show papers to prove who we are????

This is some nazi arizona shit dude!!!












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Not a chance.

I'm in for design/html/css. seriously.

Adult webmasters work together ??? lol

Some boards now do phone verification. I know they have done this on DP.

They also offer a 'premium membership'.

One word, greed. I doubt anyone would play by the rules.

How can you verify if someone is a fake nic or not? That's impossible.

Also, what is this site? http://www.gfgfy.com? Go Fuck GFY?

I thought it could be done too, check this topic Dave
http://www.gfy.com/fucking-around-and-business-discussion/883289-porn-co-op.html

Exactly my point, Some guys have content, some guys have traffic, some guys have email programs, some of you have Graphical Skills. And so much more, There is no reason we can't all work together and dominate this industry as a whole. We can even have Eric give us our own Sub-Forum here.

Forget 100, but lets say 20 - 30 of us.

Why can the Jews work together and dominate the movie industry but when it comes to the multi billion dollar porn industry, everyone wants to kill each other.

how are you going to do a valuation on the resources and time each party brings to the table?

2010 is the year of partnerships, but for those to be successful they need to be very well focuses/targeted and most of all to make sense.

I may be game if the donation may be domains and/or expertise on domains. I have a bunch and have many ways to research the best to get if what I have isn't suitable. My only worry is with bad eggs spoiling the bunch, but hopefully it can be set up to where if someone just isn't pulling their weight or is screwing the process that they can be replaced. I myself have already gotten into enough working partnerships with absolute deadbeats for instance to be overtly thrilled with doing something like this, but it'd be worth a shot.

Yeah, that was my first thought. I like the idea, but doing it with 8-15 sounds like a much better amount. The nice thing about it is that you could be more aggressive with trying new ideas because everyone would have a limited investment. You should also be able to greatly cut down on your development time assuming you had a wide variety of skills throughout the group.

Ouch, hopefully your ban isn't too long.

No. For a 100 reasons it wouldn't work. But the most important one is that it is hard to get 2 "partners" to work together without it blowing up, to get several that don't know each other that well to work together... It would be impossible.

And who is going to hold the money? :winkwink:

Hadn't been to that site before, suprised to see it gets a lot of posts and looks like decent traffic there too.

Thanks for the link Fatfoo!!! :thumbsup

I would rather stop posting than volunteer what sites I own...
WG

There is "working together" when different companies or people network together and do business in their own circle, try to crush the competition, etc...

and then there is "working together" when everyone is a partner on the same project, where they have no ownership, basically donate their time, have a small say so, etc...

1. A large group of people will never agree on the same logic, ideas, strategy.
2. Some people will work harder than others, some will bring more of value to the table. Some will do very little. The people doing most of the work will get frustraited.
3. Not many people will want to do extra work for free, especially when so many of us are busy.
4. Everyone will have a voice, no one leader calling the shots. It will be a cluster fuck for clashing egos.

Best bet you can do is hire 5 - 10 of the best people here to be a consultant so they can bring their knowledge to the table. hire another 5-10 people who are workers. You run the show, you decide what you want built. They consult/build it. They are paid a nominal fee + they get a small profit share. You retain 51% ownership, and you pay everything and call the shots taking into account their thoughts.

That is the ONLY way you going to get 10 - 20 people here to work together and it have any chance of being successful.

The cat is out the bag. Everyone knows you own google and facebook.

I do believe you're probably right. There's only room for 1 leader usually.

It's funny - with stuff like coops/partnerships, I generally have no qualms with going along with whatever people want to do unless they're like absolutely the shittiest ideas I've ever heard, and I don't believe how often that seems to happen from people that before the fact seemed like decent non-retarded people.

crazy idea

I think that is good idea :)

Count me in....i like your idea

Who said anything about revealing what sites you own? How about collaborating on a project and using your particular skills to help develop it?

who will be CEO? :d

With the premium membership on DP and knowing the site is full of scamming cunts looking to make a quick buck off other peoples naivety it has just made me more careful about people instead of trust them as it is just a bought badge. Nearly everything I've done on there has just been low-priced images for people while I'm not busy but trust me I've paid for a badge is just alarm-bells all over.

Phone verification counts for fuck all too really. Eg. I've got a prepaid phone that never had to be registered to anybody and they are priced so low they are pretty much a throwaway item now.

CyberAge-Dave > joint ventures can go tits up with only two people squabbling over something, god knows how much of a tangled mess could be made if 100 people were involved.

Not wanting to put you off of anything but trying to organise a group of people who I would think are mostly enjoying working individually rather than working for a 100 person business won't be easy. Also everything is always fine until money starts coming in by the bucket load. One person always manges to run off with everything - everybody else then hates each other for not seeing it coming. Then some lawyers all get new cars.

Good ideas sometimes start liek this and sometimes they don't . . .

idea is great, but how to split money? we need fair share ;)

This is nothing new,i had that idea long time ago,some other people as well like blueplayer who had idea about paysite but seems he was just bullshitiing in the end.
Anyway what i would do,is to create tube site,where i would provide hosting,domain,traffic,and backlinks,and i would take one banner space on site,while other webmasters would send traffic and backlinks,and they would be able to submit unlimited videos with their own banners and codes,so that means this wont be based on share,but it would require monthly quota of sended traffic/backlinks to maintain partnership account.

This sounds like a good idea, but these projects rarely ever work out. In order for it to work, you have to have ONE, I repeat, ONE manager of the ENTIRE project, and then a group of people in their own respective specializations that simply do what they're asked to do without much debate. In other words, one chief, many Indians...one shepherd (or wolf), many sheep. In an industry like this where most of the players are wolves rather than sheep, it's tough to make this kind of thing work out. Be that as it may, I can do both the wolf role and the sheep role so I would have no problem helping out, though I'm normally leading projects rather than just being a team player under the supervision of someone else. My hosting company isn't quite up to par, I don't have any content at the moment (hard to find models in PR), I'm not the best graphics artist, but I am and always have been one hell of a backend coder, and of course, I have a team of Spanish translators if the need arises. I could contribute content later, as I have my own mobile studio, makeup artist, and fashion designer/consultant. I have everything I need for shooting content except models to shoot. :)

I think it's rather easy to figure out who is a fake nick and who isn't.

I started something on a much smaller scale for some mainstream stuff. I went out and found a designer I liked and he, along with a good friend who is a coder, and I formed an LLC. We are starting on our 1st project right now. Our only investment is time. Build, promote, sell, repeat.

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The group project is a great one in theory but I fear it would be too many chiefs and not enough Indians.

it would never work unless you were all in the same office. the group project idea is a good theory, but proven it will never get off the ground.

the problem is the other 99 people feel they are putting in more effort and time than everyone else and soon, everyone stops working

lol.....

Quoted for truth, and backed by experience more than once. :)

no point in getting 100 people, all you need is a few people, and it's done all the time as is, it's called partnership / joint venture...

partnership with 100 strangers will never work...

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this has been brought up many a time on gfy but has never really gathered much steam.

My idea would be something along the lines of a forum like gfy but make a membership price , ( this cuts down on trolls , non-industry looky loo's and such )
Then make all decisions by voting , every member gets 1 vote, anything can be voted on as long as 10 other members second the motion.

People who don't abide by voted decisions are kicked out.

this is the type of idea that seems amazing if managed right, but in reality it has 1% chance to work.

you forgot the most important guys: content guys

I can make the processings

Sorry, I did mention that the first time.

I think you guys are right about the number of people involved.

Lets say we broke it down to the top 10 GFY members that have something to bring to the table.

Since we can do the billing, all 10 members of the partnership can have access to stats. We can also pay out net profits equally. Nobody will be on Salary.

Traffic guy make sure there is always new and fresh traffic to the site,
Designer always making sure site is updated and fresh
Content guys keeping content fresh (We may have to pay expenses to shoot content)
I already staff plenty of programmers
We need a good marketer that can brand us.
Hosting, we do our own in-house hosting so that's not a problem.

I think it's possible, but we would all have to commit 100% and do our share.

Well, it was just a thought and I wanted to hear some feedback on it.

I'm in. I have traffic, content, programming in house and I am one hell of a sexy bastard.