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| 04-09-08 09:47am - 6101 days | #15 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User  Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Ah yes, Salome - the beginning of tease? That reminds of the rather interesting movie, "Salome's Last Dance" (1988, Dir. Ken Russell) - adapted from Oscar Wilde's play, that is a great and seriously twisted movie. "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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| 04-09-08 09:36am - 6101 days | #3 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
As much as I love TBP, its primary use for me is the site facts that it lists. What you stated right there is exactly the problem I've run into. The express reviews generally might as well be just a number - while I do love the full length reviews, as skimming all four articles gives me a pretty good sense of what I'm getting myself into if I join, sometimes they are just so old that the site doesn't much resemble what was reviewed. I'm glad to hear a new and improved format will be debuting in the future. I'll be waiting for it with bated breath! "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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| 04-08-08 10:16pm - 6101 days | #12 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Agreed - unfortunately so far only one woman has posted and that was once - she is indeed the webmaster of GameLink Video On Demand, so the post had a bit of purpose in it. None-the-less, she also provided some other content about her own personal preferences, so if she's still reading the posts - I hope she chimes in again! This site tends to be rather male dominated, so some more female viewpoints would be a nice breath of fresh air. "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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| 04-08-08 10:06pm - 6101 days | #2 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I have mixed emotions about this one. On one side, I'm not sad to see the Intimate Moments shoved to the side as I thought they were silly rubbish in the first place. Half the girls stayed fully clothed so all you got was this possibly cute girl with her hand down her panties rubbing her crotch and moaning. Sure, it looked real enough, but A: Perhaps she is a good actress. And B: The reason I pay for porn is so I can see stuff, hell, I get more of a rise out of the stuff Hollywood puts on the screen. Oh - and one more bit: The camera doesn't move because the girl is alone. So you better like the angle it starts at, because that is all your getting! And the two or three girl intimate moments, it's like a lesbian circle jerk. Circle Jerks aren't mocked because they are homosexual - they are mocked because they are bloody lame! Now, the other half of me sees a real value for money being lost and notices that Abby Winters damn well knows they are about to rape any new members. They wouldn't be putting those emails out if they didn't. I like the single girl site, but it isn't worth the big bucks if it doesn't have the girl/girl action as well. I love the attitude that Abby Winters as a site presents - yes, it is very hippy dippy but it is friendly. Fun. Happy. I like that, and if I had a bazillion bucks to spend I'd always have a subscription and sort of wander through it everyday like I do with my comics - it would be great, I could start my day off by reading Cow & Boy and then looking at happy, naked Aussie girl. The main problem Abby Winters has is part of the reason I like Abby Winters - they are all genuine, amateur, happy Aussie girls - which unfortunately means not a lot of them are beautiful. I mean Met Art style beautiful. The Abby girls are cute and lovely, but most of them wouldn't exactly turn my head if I walked past them on the street. Basically every damn girl on Met Art would have me walking into a sign post - they are other wordly beautiful. So that means that solo.abbywinters.com is really bust for me - I have to get the girl-girl site with it to make it worth while. Honestly, I don't see why they are making this change. Their biggest competitor, in my opinion, is Simon Scans - it is very similar but has much less model interaction (actually I'm not sure there is any interaction between models and users) - but it gives you the whole shebang; no splitting up or anything - all at $30. Frankly, in many ways Simon Scans is a better product - it is much more hardcore (or rude, as they like to say) has nearly as much lesbian content and often times, the photography is just a bit superior. It too features amateur girls, in this case from Britain and Ibiza. I can't say it has as much personality as Abby Winters though - it definitely feels more like a porn site; but a very very good one. So all in all, I think it is a bad idea. This split is going to move them into the market against some very stiff competition. Namely Sapphic Erotica comes to mind. The girls there are fabulously hot and the sex is much more varied than on Abby Winters. Sure, your not getting any illusion that these girls are boning their real-life girlfriends, but who cares - they are way hotter than most real-life girlfriends! These are not large women in sensible shoes - these are Russian waifs and Ukrainian beauties! Plus they are running higher res video already, and we bad-ass Porn Users that we are get the site at an extremely reasonable $20 a month. So my wishy washy feelings that I had when I started writing this are gone. I think this is plainly a bad idea. "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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| 04-08-08 09:37pm - 6101 days | #11 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
And that's why I love porn in foreign languages - you can fill in your own dialogue but you still get all the fun sound effects! Maxim March '08 you say - interesting, my guess is they are wrong, but still interesting. The problem with many of these pop culture mags - and don't get me wrong, I love Maxim, had a subscription for years because it was so cheap and they have very funny writers - is that they interview a few people out of a very select audience, usually their readers, and then toss the results out there in large numbers and call it statistically valid. It is really why Statistics should be a required course in all high schools across the world. It is vastly easier than Calculus, and infinitely more practical in today's day and age. Sure Calculus can do wonderful, seemingly impossible calculations like the volume of bizarre shapes and so on - but everyday folk don't do that - they hire people who specialize in that. Statistics: Now that is something we run into all the time! The simplest way of validating at survey is the number of individuals tested. They often don't even tell you - when that is the case it can be a nice conversation piece but the survey might as well be considered pure conjecture. If they do tell you, more often you'll find newspapers listing that - it is often only 150 or so people - that makes one vote hugely powerful! Plus - who did they ask, did they take a bank of, oh, 200 thousand phone numbers and then have a computer randomly dial 150 people? Generally not - usually they grabbed some people from their readership - even worse, they probably asked the readers to write down their responses and send them in. So you are pooling from a non-random group of people, say Maxim readers, and are getting responses from quite pro-active, want-to-be-heard people out of that group. Voilà - you now have a statistically shattered survey. Still a good conversation piece though. This actually brings up one other point though - if you want to change the world but still be kind a lazy - answer surveys. Sure voting is all well and good but 100 million other morons do that as well. But surveys? Oh-ho! That is another matter! The thing is - despite their statistical short-comings, due the trouble of actually getting a valid sample size, people listen to surveys, they really do. Be it companies, politicians or just your everyday bloke. Survey results are short, sweet and easy understand (at least the way they present them these days). As I pointed out earlier, due to various factors, usually financial or time constrictions, the sample size is usually quite small. That means your vote is much, much more powerful than in an election. So always answer, get your voice heard as you may very well change something toward the way you like it just because you spent 10 minutes with someone on the phone. "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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| 04-08-08 09:17pm - 6101 days | #10 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
While I certainly agreed that the route to streaming, though it seems inevitable, is not good at all for consumer media rights - it is sacrificing freedom for convenience, a definitely popular trend in America these days. However: I've got to stop and nit-pick on something - how in any way was HD-DVD a superior technology to Blu-Ray? It was based on antiquated technology, it was less resistant to damage, the only way it could hope to match Blu-Ray's capacities was to exceed the dual-layer barrier for triple or quad layers, which was experimental to say the least. (Some said that would never make it to market.) Sure it was considered less resistant to piracy, but if I recall correctly, the two formats were cracked within weeks of each other. And now Blu-Ray has read times up to 12x (432 Mbit/s) according to Wikipedia, and they are rating HD-DVD at only 2x (72 Mbit/s). Granted I think Blu-Ray is only going to have about a 10 year lifespan starting now, but I'm quite glad Sony won this round. Don't forget they were the proprietors of the Betamax format in the last super format war (its main advantage being that is was smaller) - and I think they learned their lesson. The only reason I could see choosing HD DVD over Blu-Ray, for a consumer, was if you were planning on burning data to media, HD DVD was always considerably cheaper. That's its one win in all the categories! And now that Blu-Ray is officially the dominate format, Blu-Ray media and players are already beginning their descent in price. I really do not believe the consumer has lost this time - at least given a choice between the two. I'm certainly no fan of the silly hardware copy-protection they tried putting in there. Thank the gods for AnyDVD. At any rate, yay for porn's love of downloading and trend away from DRM - may its reign last a thousand years! "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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| 04-08-08 03:49pm - 6101 days | #16 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
You know - that is a really good idea! However, instead of following the Japanese format - which I imagine would need a lot of financial backing as they usually have like 40 girls at a time, why not do it like American Gladiators? Release a show once a week with two competitors of female gender (as I think you'd run out of male performers quickly) competing against each other and the six gladiators (3 men, 3 women). The contests could be both sexual and physical, sort of what makes Ultimate Surrender nifty. If the theatrics were done well enough, I think it could work really well! The obvious title could be Sexual Gladiators, but I think with some work one could come up with something more clever. One of the contests could be shooting ping pong balls vaginally, hitting targets racks up points, getting hit knocks you out, hitting a gladiator gets you tons of points, that sort of thing, lol "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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| 04-08-08 02:23pm - 6101 days | #7 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Well sure - most men don't tell the world that they surf porn, other than to their close friends perhaps, I'm guessing that's true for women as well. Well I sent an email to Vivid Entertainment to see if they'll tell me their sales percentages for men, women and couples - I'll let you know if they respond. I was going to call Wicked Pictures (no email address for them) but my cell reception here is terrible - I may try later. "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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| 04-08-08 01:10pm - 6101 days | #4 | ||
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I'm curious if you happen to recall the study that reported those figures. I wouldn't be surprised at all that women tend to keep their porn surfing habits secret, but I would be surprised if 80% of women do surf for it - that is quite a few. I'd be wildly amazed if the majority of DVD porn purchases were indeed by women - I have to believe that the big business that porn has now become would know of these figures and advertising would shift to capture that female market. As it is, porn is so heavily aimed at men that it is ridiculous. While I'm sure there are quite a few women out there with lesbian and submissive tendencies, I doubt the vast majority are interested in watching a disembodied penis plowing gaping orifices of the self-described whores, sluts and bitches. Most women I've spoken to on the subject would like to see a bit more of the men than their genitals and perhaps a bit less degradation of the females. But - I have certainly been proven wrong in the past. I have a stone plaque marking the date. It is right next to the mounted spine of the fellow who proved me wrong. No, no - I kid. Honest.
These days if any kid gets access to online porn, I chalk that up to stupidity on the part of its parents. Net Nanny and its kin are freely available, reasonably cheap and wildly accurate. Sure a picture might sneak through, but not much. I also wouldn't allow my children to browse the internet without me at least being in the house some where - this was the policy my family used and it was quite effective. I didn't get much access to online porn until my parents decided I was old enough it didn't matter. (15 or so? I don't recall.) Sure, you can't control your kid's access to the internet at all times - it is too easy to access, but you can at least limit it at home, and in theory their school will be doing the same thing. I always liked my father's analogy for why he restricts a child's access to the internet. He said the internet was like a large city: It is full of lots of interesting and wonderful things that you want kids to see - but you don't let them explore it alone. I think that sums it up nicely. I honestly feel that too many parents are hoping that the next new technological gadget they buy for their children will be a great temporary nanny. I'm appalled at how many minivans I see on the road with DVD screens in the back playing the Lion King or whatever. One of the main points of going on road trips is so the kids can look out the window and point at something and their parents can teach them about it. Parents seem to wish to turn off their children at their convenience. Sure you can do it, but it isn't exactly raising a child - if you want to do that, get a dog. Dogs are happy to play whenever and will never ask you what a train is. I also hate when parents dumb things down for children - kids just don't have that wealth of knowledge that adults do, they aren't stupid. It might take longer to describe the more advanced concepts because they don't have as many other concepts to compare it to - but the fact of the matter is they can grasp any concept given enough time. I once had a teacher in 8th grade tell me that pH only goes from 0 to 14 because water was dead in the middle. Not two years later (I home schooled after 9th grade) I was in a college chemistry class using Hydrochloric Acid that was -12 on that scale. Great stuff: It could burn through a lab coat in seconds. Now granted it is possible that the teacher was an idiot and didn't know any better, but my guess is they simply felt it was too taxing to take the time to explain that things could exceed the basic scale and why and so on. Now, granted, I'm not a huge fan of kids - sure they are easy to control and some of the most curious little creatures you'll ever run across, but they are freaky looking and tend to be a bit annoying - however, when a kid asks me a scientific question, I give them the correct answer... or go look it up and then give them the correct answer. It takes a while, but the kids are usually happy to have the more complex truth. Frankly, they are usually just happy for an adult to be paying attention to them at all. One of my other reasons that I dislike children is that I refuse to ignore them. It is just wrong to pretend that the little bugger bouncing up and down next to you (usually wanting to show you something) doesn't exist until it is screaming and yelling. That's how kids are trained into bad behavior - because it is the only thing that brings attention to them. "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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| 04-08-08 12:28pm - 6101 days | #14 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I noticed that was added to TBP, I wondered if it had anything to do with that post, lol Thanks Khan - its always nice to see how closely you guys monitor the threads :-) "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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| 04-08-08 12:24pm - 6101 days | #8 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Last time I checked, my beloved German Goo Girls was still using it. However, I believe you are correct that DRM is slowly disappearing - it is such a frustration. My guess is, despite the trend towards downloads right now - as broadband speeds keep increasing, I think streaming is going to eventually become the dominate viewing format. As soon as they master the technique for delivering instantly viewable and searchable, high-definition streaming video - I'll bet downloads will be eradicated. "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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| 04-08-08 12:19pm - 6101 days | #2 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Nostalgia is an easy trap to fall into - I've done it many times myself. In fact it was I who picked Marilyn Chambers for the "choose one girl" thread. However, I think it is important to not let the past blind us of what good new things are out there. I do love old porn - it has a style about it, a raw sexuality and a certain naturalness and naivety. A lot of the old big budget porn from the late 70's and early 80's had the stars really doing their best to act - happily living in a delusion that next stop was Hollywood. It was charming and lovable. It is true that you don't get that anymore. Let me stop, and turn to cars for a moment. Personally, I can easily suffer from nostalgia in this arena as well. All of my favorite car designs are at least 30 years old, many going on 70 or 80 years old. Before safety laws and aerodynamics - cars had wonderful and wildly varied designs. Swooping lines, chromed pipes shooting out of engine bays, vents and grills that served no other purpose than to turn your head. The hard truth is that most of these cars were utterly terrible. They couldn't go around corners, they didn't always start in the morning and they would usually eat two or three engines in the normal life-span of one of today's cars. So do I wish I could go back to the 50's when Mercedes had gull wing doors? No - I like that my 11 year old Toyota is happily trundling along after 200,000 miles. And I like the fact that if I want to spend the money, I can still go buy that Mercedes and drive on the weekend. The present is the best time for cars as we can still admire all those crazy designs of the past but we can have reliability and handling and the performance of today's cars and look forward to new designs in the future. The same goes for porn. Sure, there is a lot of terrible, bland and repetitive porn out there. But the fact-of-the-matter is this: In no time in human history has there been more pornography being produced than there is today. The industry is huge! And due to that hugeness, the selection is expansive as well. For those of us who enjoy the old porn, we are spoiled by it - there was no selection, but we liked the goods they gave us. Now porn requires a more active role from the consumer - it isn't spoon fed to you anymore, you have to paw through the bins of content to find just what you were looking for. The good news is, what you are looking for is probably there, gift wrapped and waiting for you - no matter how obscure it is. Am I a big fan of main stream porn, not really, but there are some studios I like from that crowd anyway. Red Light District tends to make stuff I enjoy. There are even a few feature film style pornos that I like - "Beat the Devil" starring Evan Stone as the Devil is great, and "Cap'n Mongo's Porno Playhouse" I even own on DVD. I think it is great that porn has exploded into the hearts and groins of the public - it means that more and more of it will be made. I love old porn but I don't long for it because it is still here! I can go watch it any day of the week, and then I can turn around and watch something new and bizarre from Iceland or wherever. Every time has its fashion - right now Gonzo is very in, that will change. I have no idea what porn will be like in 20 years, but I can tell you one thing: I'll still be watching it! "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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| 04-07-08 07:41pm - 6102 days | #4 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Just a quick note to say - the .png avatars work beautifully! No more background nonsense on the profile page! Most excellent. "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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| 04-07-08 10:34am - 6103 days | #2 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Yay - thank you! As soon as I get home I'll upload my PNG avatar :-) "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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| 04-07-08 09:38am - 6103 days | #12 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I agree - a Good Payment System is pretty crucial - I wish everybody used CCBill, I've never had anything sketchy from them - easy as cake to cancel. "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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| 04-07-08 09:32am - 6103 days | #8 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
That is an awesome phrase, lol - I have to remember that! "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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| 04-06-08 11:44pm - 6103 days | #2 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
My rig is a little lack-luster by today's standards. It is one of those bare-bone's Shuttles built-up by a coworker - though I tossed a second hard drive in it for porn. So, full specs: Shuttle XPC SN27P2 Bare Bones Case AMD 4000+ Athlon X2 AM2 Processor 2GB Corsair PC6400 DDR2 Pro System Memory Samsung DVDR Burner Drive EVGA KO GeForce 7900GT OC'ed Video Card Sound Blaster XtremeGamer X-Fi Sound Card Western Digital 250GB SATA II Drive Samsung 200GB SATA II Drive I actually had to get the side panels ripped out with a metal nibbler and replaced with "modders mesh" (so things wouldn't fall into the computer) because these damn Shuttles pack in the heat so well that my video card was over heating all the time. Years ago, when I first ran across a Shuttle at my job, I swore I'd never buy one. The reason? I killed two of them in two weeks, using nothing more than Photoshop. Grrrr! So, fast forward 3 years, and what do you see me doing? Buying a shuttle, granted if you priced out the parts it was worth $1200 at the time and I picked up for $800... still shouldn't have done it though. Oh and you asked about the monitor as well - I've got a slightly older gaming Viewsonic VX924 19" LCD designed for gaming - 3ms refresh and all that. I'll be getting a widescreen LCD one of these days as well - soon as I can afford it. Yeah, this rig was built for gaming, but it just doesn't really cut it anymore... I'm hoping I can at least get Assassin's Creed to run on it before I have to upgrade. Ah yes, and lastly the ISP: Standard Roadrunner - usually it tests at around 8000 or 9000 KB/s - for porn sites, the best downloads I usually see are 1.5 MB/s. 800 KB/s is more common. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo Edited on Apr 07, 2008, 09:35am (Toadsith: Forgot to mention ISP.) | |
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| 04-06-08 11:37pm - 6103 days | #11 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I do agree with littlejoe: Wenona is something else - I'm always surprised she is American though. She looks like something created by the Soviet Block in the 80's - hot though, no doubt, definitely hot. Kinda like the MiG fighter jets... "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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| 04-06-08 12:42pm - 6103 days | #2 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
My favorite has to be Naomi (a.k.a. Naomi Russell) - her is ass unstoppable. It depends a bit on her current BMI which can vary a bit - but when it is good, it is divine. I gotta say though Drooler, that's a helluvah good selection you laid out as well. I have to say, Met Art was always good about showing off some fine asses as well. Hmmm... I need to rejoin there one of these days. "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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| 04-06-08 12:31pm - 6103 days | #12 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Actually, I think there is a site right up your alley for this: It is called Girls Kissing, not the one on Porn Users, this one is British: girlskissing.co.uk (It is 2257 compliant, as viewable in the FAQ.) "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo Edited by Staff on Apr 07, 2008, 06:32pm (Khan: removed www from URL) | |
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| 04-06-08 08:31am - 6104 days | #9 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Some very good points. And Tours are something I missed on my round-up, but I think you've got it covered nicely. One note to those webmasters though - on Tour videos, just like on Tour photos - show a few true resolution videos too - I like how DEV8 Entertainment (the folks responsible for All Internal and other sites) provide test videos at all of their upper level resolutions. You know what you are getting before you put the cash down. "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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| 04-06-08 08:26am - 6104 days | #9 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I'm actually rather surprised nobody has that category sealed up. It seams that lingerie style fetish sites do well enough for there to be plenty of entrepreneurial types waiting in the wings to jump in and fill any gap in the content. Sexy Satin Silk Fun should really just make a similarly named sister site with the last "n" as a "ck" and be done with it. I know a number sites stick with their niche to avoid annoying their loyal members (generally a wise decision in my book), but sometimes I think sites are a little to wary about starting up sister sites with variants of their bread-and-butter content. "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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| 04-05-08 09:54pm - 6104 days | #25 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
As for the sites in question, I think what you have is an inconsistent webmaster. I found the 2257 info on one of the linked sister sites, Zarina Shoot: 7pictures Ltd. 94 New Bond Street London None-the-less, I agree - we should be careful to find the 2257 statement before we link to a site. I'd be heart broken to see Porn Users shut down by the government because of a few unfortunate postings. "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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| 04-05-08 07:08pm - 6104 days | #3 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
While I certainly wouldn't be surprised by a spyware approach to DRM, I did want to point out that all the sites that I've used that have had DRM have used Windows Media Player's built in DRM management solution. The software is already there and ready to go for almost all users - sometimes they may have to download a Microsoft Security Update - but it is hardly a dangerous thing. More often it is just tedious and frustrating. I'm definitely not a fan of DRM, but in my experience it has never compromised my system with spyware. And to second jd1961's statement - if the site says "Downloadable Videos" then they are just that: Downloadable. Streaming is actually more of pain-in-the-ass for the site than downloading, so consequently it is rarer - excluding those horrible freebie tack-on sites that websites use to advertise a larger amount of content than they really have. Most sites, if they even include that free crap, these days make it very obvious what is their primary, downloadable content, and what is just streaming, steaming dog... you get the idea. Cheers! "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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| 04-05-08 06:47pm - 6104 days | #7 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Haha - yeah, besides her wondrous nipples Lily is definitely one of the better personalities in main-stream porn. Quick-witted and talkative - she has officially retired numerous times, but I'm glad to see she keeps coming back for more. The nipple piercings are there and gone again - not sure what the current status is. Girls with "nipples that are a mile long", as she put it, I don't think really need piercings, as they are there mainly to draw attention to the nipples - so long ones get the attention all on their own. Anyway, she is great, about the only thing you don't see from her is anal - a rather aggressive pounding from a strap-on steered by Lucy Lee ended that segment of Lily's career. I hope at some point she sets up a respectable site of her own that she is personally involved with - that is indeed something I'd subscribe to. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo Edited on Apr 06, 2008, 03:21pm (Toadsith: Typo.) | |
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| 04-05-08 12:32pm - 6104 days | #5 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Haha - clASSy name there Drooler, actually, I'd probably subscribe to that site myself. Two sites I'd love to see would be these: An honest to goodness Nipple site. The ones out there are either scams, or.. well scams. Sure you get content, but it is general crap they pulled off of free sites and what not. There are many models of all races, sizes.... creeds, whatever - that have impressive nipples when they get played with an the likes. A glamour site that features women with long nipples is something I've wanted to see for years. Check out Lily Thai (also spelled Lilly Thai) if you don't know what I mean. Second, go figure, another Glamour site: A site that features Met Art style photography, but focusing only on Ebony women. I've found one.... and it looks pricey and somewhat lacking in content. African Goddesses, well the photography tends to be pretty bad and most of the models don't show their faces. Explicit Art has some models, but frankly that site is more about what the models are doing than how they look - some of the glamour is great - but a lot of it isn't. So two glamour sites need to be made, one about nipples and one about ebony women. "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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| 04-04-08 07:56pm - 6105 days | #6 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Under the Forum Stats on the Forum home page there is a listing: Total Reports: 1 I know what Threads and Posts are. What's a report? "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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| 04-04-08 07:53pm - 6105 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
The web, with its massive audience has created an a viable market out of minuscule niches - something that is popularly referred to now as "The Long Tail", i.e. selling small volumes of hard-to-find content to many customers. Despite this explosion of niches (The Best Porn now lists a hundred of them) I've found a few niches that have limited and poor service from available websites. So the question is: What niche market websites would you like to see created? "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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| 04-04-08 02:53pm - 6105 days | #4 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
While the site used to have an unfortunate tendency to do poor photoshop work their photos (they may have stopped this now), African Goddesses has a number of models with impressive breasts. My favorite would be their model named "Jane". Her body is astonishing. Then of course their is the legendary Sylvia McFarland. Her breasts are simply epic. Hard to find good material of her though. "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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| 04-03-08 09:34am - 6107 days | #5 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Marilyn Chambers back in the day. (And that day would be near 1980.) "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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| 04-03-08 09:18am - 6107 days | #3 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Indeed I have done that in the past and it was as Khan said: The site was actually added within a day - so props to all involved. "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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| 04-02-08 09:39pm - 6107 days | #2 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Any plans for User rankings in the forum? Like where it says "PornUsers Staff" for you guys and "Active User" for me - if I get 100 posts will it say something nifty like "Porn Baron" or something? 1000 posts could be "Divine Porn Entity", lol. Sure it is trivial, but I always liked those little rankings, kinda made for a certain authority to be earned. "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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| 04-02-08 09:32pm - 6107 days | #3 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Ah, that is a very good query. Considering the glut of DVD collection sites, I'm going to focus on exclusive content sites. The Content: Craftsmanship Starting at the beginning, there is of course the content itself. Be it video or photography, ideally there needs to be good lighting and well skilled operator for the equipment. That means the models need to be in focus, motion blur on photos should be kept to a minimum unless it is an intentional artistic decision. In general, the content producers need to know their craft. The one way around this requirement is finding a very specific niche that no one else has filled and sticking to it. A perfect example is Brazilian Facials. That site has pretty horrible production values, but you can't find content really much like it - the girls are local to Brazil and the male star has an impressive skill in the facial department only to be rivaled by the likes of Peter North. The Content: The Set This is one thing that is overlooked by many, many sites and it really separates the pros from from the amateurs. Paying attention to your set. The truth of the matter is that everything that is within your view-finder when you snap the picture or record the video, will be looked at by your audience unless it is cropped out. Sure, there may be a naked girl in the middle of the photo, but many of us will notice that half-eaten sandwich sitting on the end table simply because it is out of place. Before and during the shoot, pay attention to the set. Are equipment cables running across the floor? Is everything put away carefully or simply tossed in a pile? If something is highlighted by being separated from everything else - is it in itself attractive / interesting or does it have something to do with the theme of the shoot? If not - get rid of it. Also - keep track of what the model is doing to the set - she is focusing on looking good for the camera and might not notice that she dropped a crumpled sock dead center in front of the camera. Paying attention to the set doesn't mean you have to invest tons of money with Design Within Reach to have a badass looking set. By paying attention and doing some cleaning & simple rearranging you can make the set look neat and ordered even if you are shooting in the model's own bedroom. Abby Winters is a great example of this - almost every set is done at the model's residence and almost every set looks clean and organized. Brazilian Facials is an example of not noticing or caring (perhaps both). The Content: X-Factor The content can also provide that so-called "x-factor" that can make or break a site. That special, almost indescribable quality that keeps users coming back to the site, no matter its technical flaws. It can be almost anything, a performer, a style, a general air about the site. It can save poor sites and can make great sites truly epic. So assuming that the this thread is more focused toward the webmasters that are trying to decide the best way to present their content, lets move on. In-site Advertisements Firstly, don't try to boost your budget by putting ads in. It is unprofessional and makes the site look terrible. If you want to add a links page to other sites that you recommend, that is something different, but any pay site with an ad for one of those adult dating sites really drops a few levels in my book. It gives a feel that you don't believe your product alone is good enough to provide an income from members. Site Layout The site layout should be simple - if you want to do a columns the best is only 2, 3 columns max. More than that and it begins to look like a newspaper. Even newspaper websites don't match their print format on their website simply because the viewing area of a monitor, even at 1600x1200, is smaller than that of a newspaper. Now I'm not referring to thumbnail galleries - the gallery in its entirety would be consider one column of related content. Photo Galleries On the subject of thumbnail galleries though, make sure the thumbnails are large enough, 100 pixels wide is about as small as you can go. Below that making out the content becomes a chore; especially on landscape oriented photos. Also, it is advisable to use server-side scripting that will allow the user to select how many thumbnails they want to see per page. It is also a good idea to give the users a few options for the size of the photos. Some users don't like the full resolution photos and want something that simply fills their screen and nothing more. A zip file option for downloading the gallery is a must. If you want to get fancy you can also throw a check-box next to every thumbnail and have the server custom make a zip-file download based off the selected photos, but that is simply a neat trick and hardly necessary. The large size photos should be the full-resolution photos that come out of the camera (after whatever necessary cropping). Photo Manipulation (Photoshopping) On Photoshopping of the photos, one should be very careful. Your graphics person needs to be very good at it as you can easily end up with models that look like they have plastic skin. The most common error is using the blur tool to simply eradicate any skin texture at all. I'd rather see a pimple than see a model made of plastic wrap. Use Clone Stamp or the Heal Tools is much better. Basic Photoshop techniques that I approve of (and actually have used on sets I've downloaded in the past): * Whitening of the teeth * Removal of pimples or scars or unfortunate birth marks * Removal of bugs that flew into the frame * Straightening of the image via rotation or cropping * Color correction for fluorescent light or improperly set white balance * Removal of out of place prop (e.g. A discarded sock partially visible) While that may sound like a lot, each effect by itself is quite subtle and the combination of them can change a photo from looking nice to looking truly professional. None-the-less, always error on the side of too little photoshopping. It is better to show flaws and look real than to have models that look like they were designed by Mattel. Watermarks This brings me to the subject of watermarks. General rule of thumb? Don't do it. Yes another site could steal the content - just be prepared to defend it. And don't worry, if your site develops any sort of fan base and you make it very clear that you have exclusive content, your members will immediately tell you if someone is ripping your photos. Loyalty springs up very quickly for a good, honest site - it can actually be quite surprising and impressive. Color Scheme Back on the site design, lets talk about color scheme: The site simply needs to be easy on the eyes. Just as I mentioned about not having too much content - you also must pick colors that plainly don't hurt the eyes. If you are doing a bondage oriented site, you'll probably want black as your background color. Vintage? Some shade of yellow or brown. Anything else, probably white or grey, but mess around, see what fits and what doesn't. This is something people may think that they can iron out later, but lets face it, the basic site colors are going to be seen a lot more by the users than any of your content because they have to navigate your site to find it. So it is a must that the site be friendly and easy to look at. Consistency Another basic mistake that is made by web designers is a lack of site wide consistency. Humans being the marvelous pattern recognizers that we are mean that users will quickly note where various features they are using are and then will expect those features to be in the same place and look the same way on every page. So if you start moving links around or put a feature on one page but not another, you'll end up with some frustrated users. Everything must stay the same. Also, don't forget that the vast amount of your users will be Western-culture educated, so that means they'll be looking at the site from the left to the right and will immediately focus at one third from the top on every new page. Videos Videos should be presented in multiple formats and one must be WMV - it is very quickly becoming the format of choice for all sites. Unless you enjoy users hating you, don't use DRM. The fact of the matter is users will not remain a member indefinitely just so they can still watch videos they downloaded 6 months ago. They'll either figure out a way around the DRM, or they'll get pissed and cancel. In these days of broadband connections it is very important that full scenes be available as a single file download. Even if it is over 1GB. High Definition (1920x1024) video is quite the thing right now, but it is hardly a requirement. Your video, however, should be DVD quality. Generally that's 720x480, but you can get away with 640x480. Due to various sad people with dial-up connections, you should provide the videos in segments as well. Through screen shots of the scenes is a great way for providing a through preview for users (especially those with slow connections). A video preview is even better. Streaming video is a nice feature, especially with the new Adobe Flash technology, but it is hardly a requirement. File Names For both videos and photos you should follow a standardized naming system that will be easy for both you and the user to organize. This helps avoid mistakes when you are uploading the content and helps the user organize it all after they have downloaded it. File Server The server must support the resume download feature - as most serious users will be using some form of download manager. Making the server friendly toward at least some level of download acceleration (multiple simultaneous connections) will also win you points with that crowd. A fast server is also a must. If a user with a high speed connection can't pull content off the server at speeds of at least 300 KB/s, then that is a serious problem. 1 MB/s or faster is really what should be aimed for as a goal speed. Content Indexes Indexes are basically a must. Assuming your site has enough content for it to be important, people are going to want to look through it in an orderly fashion. Model indexes are an easy start - if all the videos and photos are organized in a list by the models name, people can queue up downloads exactly the models they like best and be happy as a clam. Obviously an index of the content as it is updated in order of newest to oldest is a must, but I can't think of a site that doesn't do this by default anyway. Added points are gained by having indexes of other sorts - depending on the content this could be by fetish, by body type, or hair color, et cetera. Search Engines A real feather in a site's cap can be a full-featured search engine. Frankly, not that many sites have it. Do really do it up, you need to be able to tag a lot of information to your content. This means describing the models, naming the models, describing their activities and so on. A good advanced search can really make a site a breeze to navigate; always providing the user with exactly what they want at that moment and nothing else. To do it right you should provide a simple search box on every page with a link right below it to the advanced search page that will make use of all those little tags you've added to your content. Also, make damn sure to provide a help page teaching the seriously newbie users how to use it. Recently Kink.com updated their sites with a nicer search engine and then forgot to make a big note for their users that it was in fact a Boolean search engine - which behaves quite a bit differently from your standard basic keyword searches. It is vastly more powerful, but can also grant you no results at all if you treat it like a keyword search engine. It just goes to show that educating your users about your site is just as crucial as making a good site in the first place. Alright, that is about all I can think of right now. Follow those suggestions and you'll have your self an A-Class site. You'll also probably not have any life as you'll be sitting in front of your computer coding the whole time, but at least you'll have a lot of members telling you how bad-ass you are. Cheers, Toadsith "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo Edited on Apr 06, 2008, 07:58am (Toadsith: Updated format for easier read and added more content.) | |
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| 04-02-08 01:47pm - 6107 days | #4 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
One overall #1 site? Come on... Personally my tastes are too varied for that to be possible. It is the same thing as when people ask what my favorite color is. Favorite color for a car would be wildly different that my favorite color for a house, or a toothbrush. Lets, some favorites: Abby Winters: Not the hottest models, but they are all soo happy. I seriously would always have a membership to this site if I could afford it. Kind of my own variant of those "natural" lights designed for Seasonal Affective Disorder - this site just always leaves me in a better mood. Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy. ATK Natural & Hairy: Lots of beautiful models, but beware: The models run the range from astonishingly beautiful to Wilhelm Scream. I mean like nightmare worthy. However, if you are a fan of hirsute girls, this is still the best site I've found. Despite its lack of hardcore. However, if Rodney Moore gets its act together they might trump ATK in this niche. Argentina Triple X: Great stuff, still a bit too small. If they survive, in three years this site and its sister sites will be simply epic. Video Box: Common, yes, but they are good at what they do. German Goo Girls: A unique style, but that damn DRM... None-the-less, if you like their stuff, there is only one place to get your fill. They really need a good search engine as well. Suicide Girls: Not quite porn per say... but whatever. (Read that as super softcore.) Beautiful women and an amazing price. Content can get a little repetitive (if one more model photographs herself in her bathroom... I swear) but you will see some insanely hot women that just aren't seen anywhere else. Great stuff. Simon Scans: Go here if you like gaping. British girls (mostly) so you get quite a variety of looks, but generally the best you get is cute. Basically none of that Eastern European style angelic beauty. But then again, many of the girls are spread so wide that you'll swear you can make out their gall bladder (despite the anatomic impossibility) - so it all evens out. Almost any Kink.com site: Great production values on new stuff, an interesting company and cool bondagey themed content - I think these guys will be around for a very long time and we are better off for it. If you don't know them at all, check out their site Behind Kink. It is free and fascinating, a documentary look at porn and the people who make it happen. There are some good network sites as well, but they are so varied - some content is amazing, some not so much. "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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| 04-02-08 01:21pm - 6107 days | #6 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
It is true, if you are sticking to a monthly budget, recurring memberships can quickly rack-up a bill, even if you are pretty good about staying on top of it, it is so easy for one to slip by. I have to say that participating in Porn Users has doubled that problem as I'm a member of so many more sites now, keeping track of them can be tedious. On the other hand, 99% of recurring sites will let you cancel immediately and the membership simply terminates at the original rebill date. So that is always an acceptable option. The finances department is a problem though. I used to limit it to basically one membership at a time, so $30 - 40 a month. These days it's often over the $100 mark, that gets a little rough sometimes... "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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| 04-02-08 10:11am - 6108 days | #4 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I must say that I don't find the recurring memberships to be an issue. In fact, they can be a bonus, as it locks you in at whatever price you agreed to. So if you managed to get a recurring membership of $10 a month, you can keep that indefinitely even if the site has since begun to charge $30 a month. If they make it a huge pain-in-the-ass to cancel, then you might have an issue - but that is pretty rare. The only sign-up practice that I dislike is the pre-selected trial memberships that they pop-on as you are about to pay, if you don't pay close attention they can easily walk away with a few bucks more for some sites you'll never visit. I like recurring memberships for good sites as sometimes I hang on for longer as they have so much content. I generally am only a member for about 3 months max - but still, it is a bit of a time saver. And if they offer a discount: well that is just plain lovely. Abby Winters kept me for quite a while because of the discounted price. "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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