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| 05-13-08 11:33pm - 6066 days | #51 | |
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Karup (0)
Active Webmaster Posts: 12 Registered: Jan 12, '07 Location: Michigan |
Hey Rick, I appreciate it! I think a big congrats is definitely in order for you too. I recall the first time seeing TBP and remember thinking you had an uphill battle since review sites were well established by then, but not more than a few blinks later you guys had steamrolled the competition. :) Regards, Jeff | |
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| 05-11-08 06:29pm - 6069 days | #49 | |
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Karup (0)
Active Webmaster Posts: 12 Registered: Jan 12, '07 Location: Michigan |
Absolutely, it's one of the "what's new" things we'll be focusing on the most. The current tours are setup in a way that makes it so difficult to make announcments, discuss features, etc... and still keep attention on the content. Rather than try to fix this major flaw, we're just ditching the entire tour all together in favor of a new one that will give a glimpse of everything in the members area. | |
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| 05-07-08 12:58pm - 6073 days | #47 | |
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Karup (0)
Active Webmaster Posts: 12 Registered: Jan 12, '07 Location: Michigan |
Hey PP, Couldn't agree with you more, unfortunately. :( We've already begun working with our designer to come up with a fresh new tour design. It's a huge challenge to find the best way to display what's new, as well as what's already in the site, without overdoing it and getting surfers lost, confused, or bored. Part of it has already come through and we're now waiting on a first draft of some other parts. We will be going back to the way our tours used to be, which is that they were huge & shocked surfers by showing just how enormous the members area is. | |
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| 05-04-08 08:40pm - 6075 days | #45 | |
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Karup (0)
Active Webmaster Posts: 12 Registered: Jan 12, '07 Location: Michigan |
Hi Khan, First, talk about "long time no talk"! It must be 8 years now since I've last talked to you, I believe since we were both members of YNOT. It's nice to see you & Rick working together again (assuming you guys weren't working together after the YNOT days). Hope all is well. Second, no problem about the contest. I didn't know it was against the rules. | |
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| 05-04-08 08:31pm - 6075 days | #44 | |
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Karup (0)
Active Webmaster Posts: 12 Registered: Jan 12, '07 Location: Michigan |
TYVM, JB! I'm very happy to hear that I've earned your respect. And I couldn't be more pleased at the direction this thread has taken. :) | |
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| 05-03-08 08:01pm - 6077 days | #37 | |
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Karup (0)
Active Webmaster Posts: 12 Registered: Jan 12, '07 Location: Michigan |
Hey Toadsith, I appreciate the kind words & warm welcome. I agree that it would be great for surfers here if webmasters became more interactive. I think it's only a matter of time before that happens. I know several adult webmasters that are very hands on & will jump at the opportunity to get to know their customers better, as well as what they can do to improve their sites. | |
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| 05-03-08 04:05pm - 6077 days | #36 | |
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Karup (0)
Active Webmaster Posts: 12 Registered: Jan 12, '07 Location: Michigan |
No problem at all, e-mail sent. Regards, Jeff | |
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| 05-03-08 11:34am - 6077 days | #33 | |
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Karup (0)
Active Webmaster Posts: 12 Registered: Jan 12, '07 Location: Michigan |
Tell you what, I'll start a thread within the next few days in which I giveaway 2-3 free memberships to PU users with no strings attached. It'll be some sort of contest thread that anybody can win. I just have to try and come up with a couple of ideas that I think will make it fun to particpate in. Regards, Jeff | |
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| 05-03-08 11:30am - 6077 days | #32 | |
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Karup (0)
Active Webmaster Posts: 12 Registered: Jan 12, '07 Location: Michigan |
Hey Drooler, My pleasure. :) Did you deactivate receiving e-mails again? It isn't showing the "E-mail Drooler" option on your profile page. Regards, Jeff | |
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| 05-03-08 12:05am - 6077 days | #29 | |
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Karup (0)
Active Webmaster Posts: 12 Registered: Jan 12, '07 Location: Michigan |
Hi Drooler, I can't sit here & make excuses for where I messed up. All I can say is that I apologize & deeply regret it. You're right, in my e-mail I said I would reply to your posts later that day, but never did. Mistake #1. Then I should have replied to your public comment about us working on a redesign to let you/everybody know that I was wrong in my estimations. I made several mistakes throughout the process and looking back, would have done things a lot differently. BTW, thank you for raising your score back. I was actually worried that would be heading way further south if I were to reply to this thread. :) If you'll accept it, I'd still like to extend you that membership on the house that I offered you back in August. It's the least we can do to makeup for being so wrong in our estimations of the members area revamp going online. Regards, Jeff | |
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| 05-02-08 08:53pm - 6077 days | #27 | |
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Karup (0)
Active Webmaster Posts: 12 Registered: Jan 12, '07 Location: Michigan |
Hi JB, Sure, I'll be happy to chat & answer your questions. I was just browsing PU earlier today and saw the "Latest Threads" section on the main page. Until then, I hadn't even known the PU forum existed, although I did know it was coming soon from previous visits to the site. So I went into the forum and just browsed some of the threads, including this one. After seeing Drooler's post, I felt it was unfair. Part of me thought it would be better to just let it go and avoid the risk of alienating other users who think I'm going about this the wrong way (see "jd1961's" post above), but in the end I decided to reply with my point of view. Hopefully people see that my intent was never to get into a dispute with anybody on PU. An e-mail is sent to us everytime somebody writes a review for any of our sites on PU, so that always prompts a visit by us. Aside from those visits though, I would say that I visit PU a few times per month on average, mostly as a lurker. I'll sometimes reply to reviewers & thank them for a nice review or tell them I'm happy to hear they like our site. Most of the content we have is online & available in our members areas. The only content that isn't in there yet is the content that has been received from the photographers and is waiting to be processed. Sometimes we build up stockpiles that equates to several months worth of updates and other times it can get alarmingly low. It all depends on how much recruiting & producing the photographers are doing. If I were to compare our sites to one other site(s) over everybody else, I would say that it would be ATK's group of sites. We've been friends with the people from ATK since our inception and have always been fans of their sites. They've always been light years ahead of the competition in the "bang for your adult site buck" category, so it's impossible not to be influenced by them. Some other top notch sites that come to mind are Twistys & Alsscans' sites. You've been a member of some good sites. :) We try to set ourselves apart by finding the perfect mixture of quality & quantity. We've always wanted to update more than everybody else, but not let it sacrifice the quality of our content. Models are in this business to make money, as are photographers. That makes it difficult to get a model and have her remain a 100% exclusive face to our sites. They can make much more money by offering their content to as many sites that are willing to buy. Because we're the biggest purchaser to many of the photographers we deal with though, we can get special preference and the occasional super duper exclusive model that won't be found elsewhere on the net. The most common special preference we'll get is being offered a new model for a few weeks or months before she is offered anywhere else. I can't say it's too surprising (disappointing though :)) that you've never joined our site(s), as there are tons of adult sites on the net and the competition is fierce. Even though a surfer might think highly of a site and almost be interested in joining it several times, sometimes it takes seeing a certain model/movie/photoset on a tour that grabs their attention & really peaks their curiosity. It is incredibly hard to reinvent ourselves and stay fresh. Trends come & go in this business very often, so what was popular today might be considered "old & outdated" in the near future. Reality sites are a big trend that comes to mind, which changed the business a great deal. I believe Bangbus was the first reality site that I was familiar with. That was either late '01 or '02. We try to keep our tours fresh and listen to what members & surfers are saying they want to see more of. Unfortunately, we made a big mistake last year by greatly misjudging (by several months) when our revamped members area would go online. People (including Drooler) were upset and rightfully so. We did our best to make it up to as many people as we could in various ways, including free access, a complimentary membership to another site, etc... Ironically, I was talking to the owner of ALSScans not long ago and he mentioned that design was not their forte. He's a great photographer though and has a huge following of longtime, loyal fans. It's well deserved. Sites like PU, TheBestPorn, etc... are very valuable for us to keep up with not only what our members like, but what members of other sites are giving high/low marks for. It's not uncommon for us to contact somebody after they write a negative review or post because it's bothersome to see somebody unhappy, especially after trying very hard to make everybody happy. Unfortunately, tastes & preferences vary so much that it's impossible to make everybody happy. Now that we're aware of the forum, we will definitely be participating in threads, as well as creating our own to keep an open dialogue between us and members who'd like to make suggestions, give praise, criticism, etc... I just have to hope I don't get tracked down & beaten by an angry PU mob for having a "disagreement" with one of their most popular faithfuls. :-) I hope that answers all of your questions. Aside from being an adult webmaster, I'm also a fan of porn like everybody on this site. The only difference is that I probably have a cooler job. :) Seriously though, I hope Drooler or anybody else doesn't hold a grudge against me and certainly not our sites. It was an honest effort to make the best of a bad situation/big mistake on our part. Regards, Jeff | |
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| 05-02-08 03:55pm - 6078 days | #24 | |
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Karup (0)
Active Webmaster Posts: 12 Registered: Jan 12, '07 Location: Michigan |
Drooler, I invite you to post anything & everything you've ever received from me on this forum. IIRC (and forgive me if I don't recall the exact wording since it was approaching a year ago), I simply asked you to reconsider the new low score you had changed KarupsPC to because of us missing the deadline for the revamped members area. Dropping your score by 20 or so points because we missed a deadline isn't an accurate score for the site, at least not in my opinion. It's punishment & retaliation for being or feeling let down. I understood where you were coming from, however, I disagreed with it. I'm not going to sit here and explain why it was late because a) I know you don't care and b) it won't help change your mind even a tiny bit. I don't appreciate your attempts to bash me and/or our site for what was me simply trying to be nice, respectful, and understanding to how you felt. I wasn't rude. I wasn't critical, yet for some reason, you make it seem like me contacting you was a bad thing. Why? Is me "reaching out" to somebody who writes a review or gives us a score such a bad thing? "You don't get me"? LOL, as if what I did was so outlandish that it warrants you still talking about it a year later. I said nothing to you that I haven't said to many people. There is nothing in any of them that I would be embarrassed about if posted on a forum. And how you view it as an insult or a bad thing is beyond me. I would think surfers/members/posters would appreciate a webmaster's attempts to be responsive. I've offered or extended numerous people free access to our sites, mostly for comparison of our revamped members area compared to our previous members area. I would have loved to hear your opinions of our new members area in the hopes that we impressed you, as well as anybody else who would be able to give us an honest review (good or bad). We've given hundreds of free memberships throughout our history for numerous reasons. Offering a few people free memberships because we regretted letting them down is not a bad thing. I'm sorry that you felt so insulted by it and had to change your PU settings to never accept another contact like it. EDIT::: I actually just realized that I can access all e-mails I've sent out via PU, so instead of inviting Drooler to post my e-mails, I'll do so myself... ---------------------------------- Date Sent: 08-19-07 10:32am Sent to: Drooler (128) Subject: Jeff from Karups Hi Drooler, Jeff from Karups here. I saw the recent review of KPC on PU and your reply to it. I'll likely reply to both of them on the site later today, but wanted to send you a personal e-mail before I do bcz I know you're a highly respected member of the site. I just sent a scathing letter to the 2 people in charge of the KPC members area revamp. I included the negative review and your reply to it, noting that we've been promising people it's coming soon and still haven't delivered yet. I wanted to ask if you've been in KarupsHA as of late? I ask bcz the new KPC members area will look pretty much what KHA's looks like, but with even more improvments. If you're happy with KHA's, then we're pretty confident you'll be happy with the new KPC review. Another thing I'd like to ask, and I understand if you prefer not to, but would you be willing to hold off on giving us your new score of 75... (message is getting too long, will send another one to finish). What I'll do is give you a month in KPC after the redesign goes online. I'd like to make it clear that I'm not trying to bribe you for a favorable score, I'm honestly looking forward to getting a valuble opinion of the new members area once it goes online, so hearing your input right away and hopefully impressing you means a lot to me/us. In exchange, I would just like for you to hold off on giving us that new score of 75 for a bit longer, until we get the redesign online. If after we do and you still feel the site is inferior, I will accept whatever score you think it deserves. Please let me know if any of this would be okay with you. Also, please do let me know if you've been in KarupsHA's members area recently, as I'd like to hear your opinion of what the navigation/experience is like for you in there. Regards, Jeff ---------------------------------- If anybody feels as if me contacting him was disrespectful, a bribe attempt, unethical, etc... please let me know. Regards, Jeff Edited on May 02, 2008, 04:25pm (Karup: Found e-mails I sent to Drooler.) | |
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