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| 08-18-12 08:46am - 4509 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
Have you ever been contacted by a webmaster after a review? Just curious… I’ve had maybe two webmasters make comments as a reply to my reviews and I was emailed once with a ‘thanks for the review’ comment. No one has ever contacted me with anything negative until recently and I’m just curious if anyone else has had a similar experience. My only negative reply was an email from a webmaster threatening me with legal action for a comment I made prior to a full review. I commented that a certain site limitation wasn’t clearly spelled out on the site or in the terms of service. He objected to that and pointed me to a clause in the TOS which he said DID make that limitation clear. I’ve read that clause multiple times and still can’t see his point. So he threatens me with a lawsuit for damaging his business… He argues that my sin is in telling people that the TOS isn’t clear, but I suspect that if I did cost him business it’s because I mentioned the limitations of his site. Curiously, I noted that this webmaster has taken on some other PU members for comments and reviews when some of his site’s flaws are noted. Anyone else have similar experiences? | |
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| 08-18-12 09:07am - 4509 days | #2 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I've had webmasters post comments in some of my reviews but I don't know if I'd call this contacting me per say. Although I did have a back and forth on a couple of the mooents so those I would definetely call a contact. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 08-18-12 09:30am - 4509 days | #3 | |
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Denner (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,217 Registered: Mar 03, '07 Location: Denmark |
Mostly via comments here.....But have had some mail-discussions over the years with a few - mostly about what I'd think they could do better - an twice an offer of an other month or more for free "so we can discuss if we do things better" ect. (did not do another review on that basis, btw, no way, jos� And once a rather hostile contact from a site owner who went nuts - of course because of a negative review, that ended in cutting me off the site...(but with "a little help from my friends" (Kahn) - I got a refund)...and never went near that site again... But, rearadmiral: To threaten with legal action for a comment...? Weird....og like we said in the early 70th: Far out! "I don't drink anymore - I freeze it, and eat it like a popcicle" Edited on Aug 18, 2012, 09:40am | |
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| 08-18-12 10:08am - 4509 days | #4 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
I wouldn't worry about a law suit, rearadmiral. If you read and re-read the TOS, and things still aren't obvious, he hasn't a leg to stand on. In any case, he sounds like one of those small time operators who would go broke if he had to hire a lawyer. And, yes, I had two different web masters contact me by email after a critical review in order to tear a strip or two off me. They've also done it to me on this site as a public comment to an unfavorable review. Most are very good about it, though, and accept that reviews are subjective by nature and that some might not like what they offer. | |
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| 08-18-12 10:21am - 4509 days | #5 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
Trust me, messmer, I'm not losing any sleep over this! | |
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| 08-18-12 01:32pm - 4509 days | #6 | |
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RagingBuddhist (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 893 Registered: Jan 23, '07 |
I wasn't contacted by email after a review, but I was asked to take my concerns out of the public eye (here on PU) and email the webmaster directly. Some of you long-timers might remember the heated exchange I had with that particularly hot-headed webmaster a few years back. It struck me as pretty funny that rearadmiral's original post immediately made me think of him. Sarcasm is a body's natural defense against stupidity. | |
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| 08-18-12 01:49pm - 4509 days | #7 | |
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Thomas20 (0)
Active User Posts: 60 Registered: Dec 27, '09 Location: England |
If the limitation wasn't clear to you, even on a second look, maybe that's because it's not very clear ! It's totally bogus to threaten a lawsuit - as has been said, it's the limitation that will cost business not your opinion of the way the terms are written ! | |
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| 08-18-12 03:08pm - 4509 days | #8 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended  Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
Oh yeah ... more than once. The more memorable one came from the webmaster at the "I feel myself" web site. He was all beside himself because I alluded to the notion that some of his girls were less than glamorous ... . well, maybe I actually said "average". On the other hand, I might've really used the term; "homely." Anyway, the guy went off the deep end, reading me the riot-act in an email to PU staff ... presumably pounding the keys of his PC angerily, shaking his fist and vociferously spitting all over his computer screen. His main beef was that we, grandious, would-be, ill-qualified, role-playing-egotistical underlings would dare make any judgment on his work. In such a state of rage, who knows what the guy was capable of doing .... Fearing he might send out a hit-man whose job is introducing my body at room temperture, I backtracked and amended my review wherein I admitted I was on strong opiates at the time, the effects of which distorted the real, incredible beauty possessed by yet all his models. | |
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| 08-18-12 05:42pm - 4509 days | #9 | |
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jberryl69 (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 1,000 Registered: Nov 27, '10 Location: neverland |
^ One would think Graymane, that having done opiates, you'd know that it makes even crap look good. If it ain't grits, it must be a Yankee. If you're going to lay her head over the pool table and fuck her throat, get your fucking hand off her throat! | |
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| 08-18-12 06:17pm - 4509 days | #10 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
" One would think, having done opiates" ??? ..... If one looks at that quote carefully, JB, you'd see it could go either way. Does this mean I've found something else we have in common?  | |
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| 08-18-12 07:48pm - 4509 days | #11 | |
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RagingBuddhist (0)
Disabled User Posts: 893 Registered: Jan 23, '07 |
The only way I would ever change one of my reviews because of a webmaster's being offended is if they could show me, unequivocally, how I was wrong. I do not see how expressing one's opinion of another's product or service can be wrong. While it's true that you can sue anybody for anything, I would think that you need a substantial and reasonable case to even make it to trial. Unless someone has gone over the top and falsely accused them of doing something illegal, or made some other out-and-out slanderous claim, the threat of a lawsuit is ridiculous. I've now seen two webmasters who have taken a combative stance in defense of their site. They've blamed their customers for site issues and dismissed their qualifications to rate their product. It really makes me wonder what they're thinking. Who else, other than their customers, would be in a position to say what they like and didn't like about their site? In the case of IFM, if the site is supposed to be the 'art' that Feck claims it to be, I really don't understand the reaction. All artists have their detractors. Criticism goes with the territory. Sarcasm is a body's natural defense against stupidity. | |
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| 08-19-12 02:00am - 4508 days | #12 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User  Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Some of my reviews have been commented upon by webmasters, and a few times I've been directly contacted. I've been fortunate enough to not have had any negative experiences with this however. Some of us are lucky I guess.  "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 08-19-12 02:34am - 4508 days | #13 | |
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elephant (0)
Active User  Posts: 585 Registered: Jan 11, '07 |
Yeah I've been contacted too but only positive thankfully and if its true then you have to write a fair review. "Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand." WILLIAM CONGREVE | |
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| 08-19-12 03:33am - 4508 days | #14 | |
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atrapat (0)
Active User  Posts: 182 Registered: Apr 19, '08 Location: Non-USA |
Never got any webmaster feedback at all but I've seen a couple times smallish sites being delisted from PU shortly after a non-favorable review of mine. Some time ago, a site was even completely taken down from the Internet hours after my review. It's probably just a coincidence but in my review I was saying that it was very much worth getting a membership to the site instead of buying the videos one by one at a cam site where the model was selling them. AFAIK, the model is still selling videos from the taken down site one by one at that cam site. | |
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| 08-19-12 05:29am - 4508 days | #15 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
Agreed. I can only recall changing a review once. It was FTV Girls and I made the comment that the public nudity parts felt staged and I guessed that the site had a business relationship with the place where a lot of the public stuff was shot. This, I opined, took a lot of the risk and heat away. While the webmaster didn't provide unequivocal proof, he did state that the public elements were staged or arranged to make them safe. I accepted that and modified my review. To this day I still think that FTV Girls is an excellent site for public nudity. | |
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| 08-19-12 05:40am - 4508 days | #16 | |
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marcdc1 (0)
Active User  Posts: 139 Registered: Jan 10, '07 Location: New York |
My review of Lelu Love was clarified by Lelu herself, but like Pat362, I don't consider that direct contact. As a member of Lelu's site she offers her personal cell for texting, and I've chatted with her via that. That's been my only experience that I'm sure of. Desirae, from Naughty At Home, made a clarification on her blog that she is still updating (hooray!) after I questioned that her on PU, but that's not direct contact. | |
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| 08-19-12 07:26am - 4508 days | #17 | |
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elephant (0)
Active User Posts: 585 Registered: Jan 11, '07 |
Yeah I can totally accept that and I don't blame them really, they would be alway in trouble otherwise, lots of porn you have to use your imagination, its quite simple to imagine its more real. "Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand." WILLIAM CONGREVE | |
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| 08-19-12 08:06am - 4508 days | #18 | |
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BadMrFrosty (0)
Active User Posts: 124 Registered: Mar 05, '10 Location: Prague (Czech Republic) |
Willing to bet my left nut it was a guy called Alex that contacted you. He contacted me too but never went as far as threatening me. He seems very protective about his content, which is understandable, but threatening lawsuits against people on this site where people pay for their porn seems like a totally ridiculous thing to do. The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa | |
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| 08-19-12 09:49am - 4508 days | #19 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^and is a sure way to get bad publicity for your site on a the very site that promotes it. I tried FTV once and I found that their brand of porn and me are not compatible. I appreciate what they do but not once did I believe that their public nudity was real. Shooting nudes in public is illegal in the US so it's probably a really bad idea to do it. That doesn't mean that they can't do amazing fakes that appear real. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 08-20-12 01:11am - 4507 days | #20 | |
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slutty (0)
Active User Posts: 475 Registered: Mar 02, '09 Location: Pennsylvania |
Are they contacting you through PU or figuring out who you are based on your username here and there being the same? I have never been contacted by a webmaster aside from in the replies on PU, although to be fair most of my porn related stuff is on a pretty heavily spammed email account so I probably would never notice. Just out of curiousity, which site are you referring to RA, or would that get you in more trouble? I read through most of your recent comments and none of them seemed all that disparaging. Bunny Lebowski: I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars. Brandt: Ah hahahahaha! Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited. | |
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| 08-21-12 03:36pm - 4506 days | #21 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
Good news, BadMrFrosty! You wagered a lot, but you win and get to keep your genitals intact. Honestly though, even if you had lost I'd have likely let you keep your testicle because it would be really hard to explain that to the wife. Seriously though, you've hit that one on the head, as I suspected you would since you bore the brunt of some of his critcism too. He's an odd fellow for someone in a customer-oriented business. I can certainly empathize with his desire to keep piracy down, but alienating paying customers probably isn't a solid business model. I'll bet he doesn't get much repeat business. | |
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| 08-21-12 03:39pm - 4506 days | #22 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
I'm willing to accept that at least some of it is genuine. While a lot of the outdoor stuff seems to be shot in a resort or something similar, where there may be some protection, there is a lot shot out in the streets too. I'm willing to bet that those shots are the real deal. | |
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