Postings vs Pictures...

[johndowe]

Hi there!

First, Jenae i am Canadian,my mommie not only tought me to say thank you, but also to say please when asking for someting.

Second, you have to have before you can give, and i usually give freely, and it is nice to be thanked, but i don't give just to be thanked.

And you're right there are more takers than givers, but in the computer world you can copy things infinitely, so who cares?

Also, what ever you do in this world affects you deirectly, when you do good things you feel good, and when you do bad things you feel bad, and proportionally to the "size" of the action, so if someone does some bad things you tell them, but it's not your oranybody's job to stop them if it's very minor stuff.

Anyway, some threads have hundreds of pics and i'd like to D/L but why does it have to take 10 days to D/L 100 pics?

It's totally ridiculous to me, if the kimit was 50 or 100 to start it would make a but more sence, a bit, but then again why am i paying $50 a month for hi-speed internet instead of $20 for modem access, if i still have to wait to D/L?

Because of this limit i feel forced to post weather i want to or not, i joinned a gamer board and i ansewered many questions other gamers had, helped them with their problems, afterwards i went back not to see if i got thanked but to see if my post helped.

Have a good day.

Johndowe.

[Jenae LaTorque]

From the tone of your post there, I would like to recomend that you pick up a copy of John Ringer's book Looking Out For #1.

Don't let the title fool you. It is a great book and worth way more than the purchase price. A somewhat relevant example from the book for here would where he discusses the three types of individuals you will encounter in a business deal.

1. The person who says that he is out to help you in the deal, but all the time he is looking to screw you for everything he can get. This one is lying to you.

2. The person who says that he is out to help you in the deal, but will end up trying to screw you anyway. This one is lying to himself and thus he is lying to you.

3. The person who freely admits he out to do as well as possible in the deal. This is the rational person, and much more importantly, the honest person.

So which person do you do business with????

The answer is all three. Business is business. The important thing here is to recognize the type of individual you are dealing with and adjust your plans accordingly.

I hope you read this and said, "Well of course, that is so obviously true." That would show that you are a rational person and realize fully that there is really no such thing as a honestly free lunch.

The site management is no differant from anybody else; they are looking to get something from you in return for providing this forum. What do they get from you? Besides the obvious fact that the subject here is of interest to them personally and they enjoy the interaction with people; there is the fact that to maintain a site does cost a certain amount of money. To that end they have advertisers. And advertisers don't just put their money here because they like the guy, or the concept, or the wind is blowing north. They allocate their money based on numbers**. Numbers which are an indicator of possible returns to them. Numbers like site visits, where they went from here, how many posts they made, etc ....in general. how much quality time are the site visitors spending here. (Your post count isn't doing much for the numbers.)

The fact of the matter is that if all you want is pictures; there are an immense amount of SheMale sites out there and a jillion of them are "free" sites in the sense that you can download pictures and video clips without paying a fee. I know! I have over half a million pics from them.

Yes, I came to this site originally for the pics also. And when I first ran into the download limit, I too was disappointed. But, I did what I had to do. I uploaded some stuff and made some posts. I like to think I am a rational person (there are some here who might disagree, ) and I have learned to never expect a free lunch.

In the final analysis, it pretty much always comes down to: IS IT WORTH IT? It applies to the site owner just as much as it applies to you. Is it worth it to you to follow the guidelines set down. I can pretty much guarantee you that they will not change policy just because you, or a hundred like you, bitch about it. Not if they want to keep the site running, they won't.


** I am sure you are familiar with the search engine GOOGLE. While you have never paid Google a cent directly; you use of it does put money in their pocket. Google searches per day reached 293 million a few months ago. Now - - - think about what that means to advertisers. 293 million hits/day over 2 billion hits a week, and a hundred billion in a year. Now there we are talking about some pretty big numbers, and as a result -- BIG, BIG, BIG MONEY!! Numbers matter!!

[ila]

Originally Posted by bi0mech81

My only real gripe is the attachment system for posting pictures. 15 limit I can understand, but let me upload all 15 at once rather than doing them in groups of 3 to save myself time hunting through directories.

Explain please.

It is possible to upload 15 pictures in the same post. You can only upload 3 at a time, but you don't have to close the upload window after each 3. When your 3 pictures upload then select the next 3. You will still be in the same directory as where you uploaded your previous picture from.

[jhonnyb]

U know i said this in my welcome meg reply as well... as people keep on posting stupid stuff just to get more download points....

well the download should be completely free...

In no matter whatever the case might be who ever has got quality stuff would post it... you cannot force some one to post or not...

Its kind a unfair

In my opinion downloading of pics should be completely free...

[Christine]

Originally Posted by jhonnyb

U know i said this in my welcome meg reply as well... as people keep on posting stupid stuff just to get more download points....

well the download should be completely free...

In no matter whatever the case might be who ever has got quality stuff would post it... you cannot force some one to post or not...

Its kind a unfair

In my opinion downloading of pics should be completely free...

it would be nice if all pictures was free and everyone could download whatever they want in the amounts they want, but that takes up bandwidth and thus increases the cost of maintain this site.

Who should pay for all this bandwidth if you dont want to, even though you would use most of this bandwidth by downloading lots of pictures?

I do not know anything about the costs related to this site but I can only imagine that it is high costs because of the pictures, not because of the forum activity.

I joined this forum months ago and have not been very active in posting, but I do post when I see something I have an opinion about or feel that I can add something to a thread. I also enjoy the pictures but I do not complain about the restrictions because I know why they are there and understand the reasons.

[johndowe]

Hi there.

Again it seems it comes down to you and me Jenae, everybody is giving their opinion and not passing jugement, exept you it seems, i go with the moto that quality is better than quantity in most cases anyway, i'd rather post when i feel i have something to contribute, rather than just bullshit and antagonize others because they have different beliefs or convictions, because i don't l like it when i get antagonizes or lied to.

That being said, every time i heard someone say "business is business" it was always to JUSTIFY a DISPICABLE act they comitted, as an example:

Two guys are in competing businesses, M. A has lots of money and little scrupules, the other M. B is an honest business man that offers a good product at a resonable price, M. A undercuts him and puts him out of business just so that he could increase his prices to screw everybody out of more money for his product.

Then M. A sais to M. B: Why are you mad? BUSINESS IS BUSINESS.

Who is right?

Well, what if it was Mr B that would have put M. A out of business, M. A probably would shoot M. B, because you can't discociate yourself from your actions or your reactions you are not 2 people but only one person, and anybody on the recieving end of "BUSINES IS BUSINESS" will corectfully take it personally, because it is personnal, IT IS THEIR LIVELYHOOD, anybody that disagrees with that has never been on the recieving end of it, or are complete ASSHOLES.

And you are probably right about the 3 tybes of people in business, but there is a fourth kind that you'll probably never see in business, the "nice guy" that would say that he'll give a good deal and mean it, but this guy would not make it in this fucked up dog eat dog business world, where everybody wants to be a TRILLIONNAIRE (10 to the 12 power, not a billion but a toughsand billions), irregardless of the consequences, to others AND themselves, and like i said in my previous post, when you do something good you feel good, and when you do something bad you feel bad, but it goes deeper than that, when you do something bad it hurts and wounds your soul, remember what "Jacob Markey" said to Ebenizer Scrooge? not about the 3 spirirs that were to be visiting him but the chains that he had "forged" in his life and the one Scrooge was still hard at work forging?

Hey, i was just voicing my annoyance with the limit, i didn't want to go into an heavy phylosophical discussion ethics and business.

And the internet was originally designed by hobbyists and was designed for the FREE exchange of information, not for businesses to monopolize, but it was inevitable, now the internet is all about money, money and money, and very little usefull and benificial content, now that's sad.

And about the bandwith thing, more people visiting the site = more advertizing revenue, when done properly, but there is a balance between content and advertizing; there should be much more content than advertizing, TV is a good example, even though there is a bit too much advertising, same of it very unethical, but nobody does anything about it and nothing changes.

Oh yeah, it sais this thread has been moved, WHERE?

JohnDowe

[johndowe]

Hi there Again.

Another thing, life ISN'T about money, live is about what you take with you after you die.

What is it you take with you after you die? Your memories your actions your good and bad deeds, and you will be juged by those things and you will be juged by the hardest judge, your "TRUE" self your SOUL the one that is hurt by bad deeds and helped by good deeds.

It may sound corny but it is true.

JohnDowe.