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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
I'm on the road that the moment so this is the quick one I can respond to...
nice snark, did that feel good? I think that's that is part of the tone that we discuss in since many of us are familiar with each other.
did you ever stop to think why it's off to the side now? first and foremost it jeopardized accepting paypal payments. second it made it next to impossible to address ts's invitation proposal. Many of us could not easily invite people over here with such kinds of adult material as part of the board, especially when it was the front center reasons for many of us being here in the first place. Finally if I wanted to switch to an advertising model for additional revenue, I couldn't because many terms of service for advertising banners don't allow for adult material to be the content.
as for how many people I have invited, many people at least 10 of my closest friends.
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It wasn't meant as snark really, I don't even use that portion of TFP, not now, not then. I would stop in and see if there was anything worth looking at once in a while but for the most part I just wasn't in the mood for that kind of stuff if I was in the mood to come to TFP in the 1st place. but you said it yourself "it was the front center reasons for many of us being here in the first place"
I was just saying it seems a bit ironic to say that "this attracts people" but have a different model in place than what helped tfp get off the ground with new traffic anyway.
I think the motto that kind of developed out of the "how did you hear about tfp" thread was pretty much "came for the porn, stayed for the conversation"
now it's "came for the.... ?"
I understand the reasons it's offsite now, I was here when it happened. I'm just saying, while it's fair to be disappointed that the site has turned in to what it is at the moment, it's not fair to be disappointed that changing the forum, changed the forum community.
as for inviting people I know, I can't do it. I am a fractured individual. I am a different person for different people. I am all of those facets but not to everyone. I have to reel in certain elements of myself because some people just can't handle it, whatever it be, my bluntness, my taste in music, my sense of humor, etc.. It was hard enough just being myself around my dad after I found out he had been on this site reading everything I had been writing for who knows how long.
Sometimes I'm just blatantly honest about how shitty a friend has been treating me, or a relationship is going. If those people are here, I lose that outlet because I have to begin censoring myself.
It seems to me you guys have the same sort of disconnect going on on this forum that many of the others I've been on have had, basically, my theory is it comes down to the rise of social networking.
People were drawn to forums before the age of myspace/facebook/etc because it was a way to get to converse and meet people online about topics that interested them.
Take the music scene, forums I've been on regarding electronic music as an example have experienced a steep decline in meaningful content, and have also devolved in to pointless posts about what they had for dinner last night or something. Event invitations and flyering have gone social. Get a few facebook social behemoths on your friend list, let say 5 people with 500 friends a piece, they repost your invitation and you've got 2500 people exposed to this invite to your event now.
same thing with any topic really. Create content, post content, watch your friends share content, so on & so on.
anyways, forgot where I was going with all that, Sorry if I came across like a troll.