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SecretMethod70 · 10-07-2004, 03:08 AM

dioxin: If you'll notice, there are no advertisements on TFP. Why? Because they're EVERYWHERE ELSE on the internet. This is yet another one of the things setting TFP apart from the rest of the net. A free, civil place to meet and discuss - these are things that the TFP is about. Porn is not. 1/3 of users, 2/3 of users, whatever. The porn is not the purpose, and those who are here for only porn and contribute nowhere else on the site and/or contribute nothing to help the site run will, ultimately, not be missed if they leave. Thanks for the suggestion, and if the porn meant anything in the grand scheme of things, perhaps it would be considered, but it doesn't. In fact, I would venture to say that the majority of our top contributors could care less if the EZ were to be removed for everyone and permanently. Of course, this is not necessary because removing it strictly to contributors of relatively little to no posts elsewhere on the board and also of no money is sufficient in restoring decent access for those people who put their own personalities on the board with 100s and sometimes 1000s of posts OUTSIDE of the EZ.

A little anecdote: When I first found TFP, no registration whatsoever was required. One could view the forums without registering and even post to the forums without doing so. Then, I'm assuming for reasons much like this one, Halx chose to get rid of guest posting and guest access to the forums. I didn't complain about this at all. I simply became a registered user and began looking around to see what else TFP had to offer. Back then it was, admittedly, not relatively all that much. I think there were only 2 or 3 non-porn forums. BUT, while TFP may have not had a broad number of forums then, it had the same high-quality people and discussions as it does now. All it took was 2 or 3 non-porn forums to hook me in and make the porn only a secondary thing to me on this site. Now, instead of 2 or 3, you have over 30. If you can't find in those forums that the porn is not what the TFP is about, then the TFP is not for you.

10-07-2004, 03:08 AM	#107 (permalink)
SecretMethod70 Human Administrator Location: Chicago	dioxin: If you'll notice, there are no advertisements on TFP. Why? Because they're EVERYWHERE ELSE on the internet. This is yet another one of the things setting TFP apart from the rest of the net. A free, civil place to meet and discuss - these are things that the TFP is about. Porn is not. 1/3 of users, 2/3 of users, whatever. The porn is not the purpose, and those who are here for only porn and contribute nowhere else on the site and/or contribute nothing to help the site run will, ultimately, not be missed if they leave. Thanks for the suggestion, and if the porn meant anything in the grand scheme of things, perhaps it would be considered, but it doesn't. In fact, I would venture to say that the majority of our top contributors could care less if the EZ were to be removed for everyone and permanently. Of course, this is not necessary because removing it strictly to contributors of relatively little to no posts elsewhere on the board and also of no money is sufficient in restoring decent access for those people who put their own personalities on the board with 100s and sometimes 1000s of posts OUTSIDE of the EZ. A little anecdote: When I first found TFP, no registration whatsoever was required. One could view the forums without registering and even post to the forums without doing so. Then, I'm assuming for reasons much like this one, Halx chose to get rid of guest posting and guest access to the forums. I didn't complain about this at all. I simply became a registered user and began looking around to see what else TFP had to offer. Back then it was, admittedly, not relatively all that much. I think there were only 2 or 3 non-porn forums. BUT, while TFP may have not had a broad number of forums then, it had the same high-quality people and discussions as it does now. All it took was 2 or 3 non-porn forums to hook me in and make the porn only a secondary thing to me on this site. Now, instead of 2 or 3, you have over 30. If you can't find in those forums that the porn is not what the TFP is about, then the TFP is not for you. __________________ Le temps détruit tout "Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling Last edited by SecretMethod70; 10-07-2004 at 03:18 AM..