Rant about Adult Webmasters
Sunday, April 17th, 2005Here’s my rant of the day. Most adult webmasters I know seem to have this “if it makes money, do it” mentality. One guy I respected said this: “surfers are your prey.” Now, shit like that bothers me. People who sign up to pay sites I promote I consider my customers. I provide a service by guiding them to a site I think they’ll like, and then I get a little commission out of it. It’s an even give and take. But these other adult webmasters seem to be a different breed. They pretend to be telling you the truth and helping you out, when in reality they’re trying to pull a fast one on you and milking you for all you’re worth.
In this business, some will do whatever it takes to make money off surfers. They don’t care if they put up a “Click here for hot pussy” text on their site that leads to the crappiest porn site on the web with sextracker on the tour, “free email” scams, “free trials” that fools you into signing up to a site that’ll charge you 50 bucks on your visa card 2 days later. First they tell me, “Who are you to say which site is crap and which site is good?” Well if the site has tiny 20×30 pics all ripped off from a newsgroup I’ve seen 1000000 times before, that’s crap to me. And if a surfer new to online porn doesn’t think that, then it’s MY JOB to tell them to STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM CRAP ASS SITES so they don’t get scammed.
I’m only a year into this business, and I learned a few tricks of my own from these other webmasters. But you know what? I’m gonna throw them out the window because 50% of what they taught me is “how to scam the surfer.” It makes me sad.
My next project in the works is a review site and porn surfers’ forum. The review site won’t recommend any sites, but will rate them according to a demanding set of criterias. It will definitely be more than the other review sites out there, some of them are more like extended banner ads trying to trick surfers into signing up to lame pay sites. The forum will have tips for newbies so they can avoid some obvious online porn scams that tricks surfers into signing up to a pay site with a ridiculous price tag. Hopefully, it’ll also have a collection of actual horror stories for people to read and avoid.
Happy surfing, and be careful out there. (Careful when surfing my older sites too. Just keep your pop-up blocker activated.)