what do you hate the most about this business

[Tommy]

what do you hate the most about this business

[Cleo]

Going through my lists each week looking for cheats.

[MrMaryLou]

I totally love what I do so the only thing that really pisses me off is the cheats but I do take pleasure on nailing them so I cant say I hate that part either :)

[Tommy]

we call it policing

that would be at the top of my list to. Along with cheating sponsors and renewing domains

[Cleo]

Doing submits is about as much fun as filling out tax forms but not that big a deal.

Doing reviews isn't very much fun but is part of the job so I just do it.

Renewing domains isn't a big deal, DirectNic has a good admin.

Mostly I just really hate doing "policing" everyday.

Cheating sponsors is a very big deal and can hard to catch.

[Surfn]

Any kind of cheating.



Submit forms that don't work...

[shags]

The reaction that I get from people when I tell them what I do for a living…

|couch|

[SirMoby]

Other then looking for cheats and doing reviews I would say sitting on my ass all day. Even when I was a corporate computer geek I could at least pickup the mobile and go for walk while talking business.

Now working means sitting on my ass all the time.

[Verbal]

Originally posted by Tommy
what do you hate the most about this business
More of a list of frustrations, but...

- cheaters, spammers, hackers
- doing mundane, repetitious daily tasks (reviewing, policing, etc.)
- prioritizing "what to do next"
- having a never-ending "to do" list
- keeping up with rapid industry changes
- little in-person social interaction, ie. hermit syndrome
- carpal tunnel, blurred vision, hallucinations, etc.

:)

[Tommy]

How about changing link codes

[Torn Rose]

I'm sure this could be said for any business, but I hate dealing with other people in the business and at the same time I love dealing with other people in the business.

Too many out there that will do and say anything to make a $. And I despise those who will say one thing and do another.

I also hate the idea that the government wants to tell me I am risking jail if I don’t jump through their hoops.

But the good still out weighs the bad.

[DartDave]

Originally posted by MrMaryLou
I totally love what I do so the only thing that really pisses me off is the cheats but I do take pleasure on nailing them so I cant say I hate that part either :)

I couldn't have put it better, that sounds just like me!

[kristian]

Originally posted by Tommy
How about changing link codes

I take it you're having a bad day ? |couch|

No complaints about the work. I mostly love what I do. My only major gripe is the growing number of dickheads. I can even tolerate spammers because I pity their ignorance (they don't know any better). It's wanker webmasters I meet on this forum occaisionally. Most people have ban lists, I have a To Kill List (ala steve buscemi, in The Jerk) :D

[Bill]

I used to hate the daily grind of posting gallerys, but since I quit that crap, I've been in a constant state of bliss.

Google and yahoo bug me, but they also make me money, so I can't call that hate.

Sponsor games suck, but I don't expect anything else.

I owned small construction companies for 15 years- now that shit is something to fuckin' hate! The crooks we got in this biz are nothing by comparison.

[security_man]

nothing! not a damned thing... even the cheats are fantastic because it just illustrates how much freedom this industry has

the only thing that even comes close to being a drag is building and submitting free sites, but that can be fun if you take an extra couple of minutes and come up with a funny title or theme

god bless internet porn!!!|buddy|

[Greenguy]

Policing is a big pain in the ass, but it has to be done with every aspect of the Internet - mainstream or adult. Link trades go bad, people fuck up, internal 404's (not with me - LOL - but I assume there's some big sites that have that problem)

I don't mind reviewing that much, as it gives me ideas for upcoming sites :) But then again, some of the submits we get.... |banghead|

Submitting doesn't bother me either - it's the least I can do for free traffic :)

And, like Cleo, DirectNIC is wonderful for keeping my domains in order :)

I don't so much hate the reaction that I get when I tell people what I do, it's the ignorant people that ask "You don't do CP, do you?" or "I saw this one site once where this guy had a fish & the chick...." I also hate that, since I work on a computer all day, I'm instantly some sort of "expert" for my family & friend's computer problems. I often tell them that I also watch a large amount of TV so I can help them with their remotes if they wish :)

Spam sucks, but regardless of what the US Gov't does, it ain't going anywhere.

I hate that this is pretty much the only human interaction that I get on a weekly basis & that I rarely have a need to leave the house :)

Changing link codes sucks ass, but we all know that :)

But, all in all, I can't think of anything I'd rather be doing & can really never see myself "retiring" - what the fuck would I do with myself all day? :)

[Pusher]

I can't think of anything I hate about this business...it rewards creativity, hard work, humor, interacting with people, etc., etc.

...AND no boss to suck up to!

No compaints here |rasta|

[Ramster]

I hate these and some were already mentioned:
-Changing link codes (I still find old non working links I'm losing money on)
-Cheaters! Mainly content and gallery theifs who steal work
-Building a gallery or site. Submitting isn't bad as I'm happy I'm almost done. It's the building part I dislike.

Other than that. I hate when I'm done my usual grind and have to decide what extra to do. Police my sites? Build again? Tweek? So much I want to do sometimes it's depressing deciding where to start. |jester|

[plateman]

adding links and looking through the gallery and writing a description and buying pictures and renaming them by hand and really dont like free sites the way I do them.. trying to make each site unique is a pain in the brain.. Pretty much all of the Bs work..

[Surfn]

Originally posted by plateman
looking through the gallery and writing a description and buying pictures and renaming them by hand ..trying to make each site unique These are all challenges I enjoy :D I like taking a set of 20 pics and make them work for tgp galleries, then for free sites.

[Lyndress]

Funny, this is my first post and I'm starting off with what I hate about this industry. Or is that really funny? I guess not.

Anyhow, I hate it when people in the industry blow hot air up your ass. They make big plans to start a project with you, and then they flake. Flaking really annoys me. You have to weed through who is serious and who's just talking out of their bum.

On the flip side, there are a ton of people in this industry who will tell you straight up if they want to do biz with you or not, and I appreciate that. I like candor.







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[djhits]

the voices in my head....

nah what i hate.

- no face to face interaction for maybe a day or 5
- sitting on my ass all day
- strange sleep patterns
- most recently all the shit with visa, acacia the shitty dollar exchange rate.


thats about it

[Useless]

I hate all of you.|waves|
I kid! I kid!

I hate traffic. Analyzing it. Cursing it. Sewing thousands of little voodoo dolls, each representing a particular surfer, and sticking them with long rusty needles as they exit my sites.

Yeah, I hate traffic.

[Dravyk]

I hate not being Tommy. |waves|

Ok, seriously. There's so much I hate right now, it could fill a book, so I probably shouldn't even start, as I might not stop. |angry|

[Wazza]

Sponsors who make you jump through 60 hoops and swallow fire just to get the link codes...

[T Pat]

1, Whores that miss dates
2. Answering escort emails and scheduling dates
3. http://nkvd.us wich leads to http://searchpage.cc/1525/ Argh the second time I've been hijacked by this prick

My replacement on the e-mailing and scheduling got into Tijuana today
so I won't have to worry about the e-mails' schedualing and girls blowing off dates much longer
I just need to train her, She's been running a massage parlor and is a licensed accountant so it shouldn't take long.

seems to me that as long a sponsors pay their affiliates no matter how they make sales and don't do a little policing' pricks like nkvd.us will be around
Other than that I like the biz|roses|

[Mishi]

I hate the double-standard that women who get a lot of sex are sluts and whores, but men who get a lot are studs. Hate in the mainstream, and really hate it in this business.

Fortunately, not everybody has that attitude; but it's still far too pervasive. |sad|

[Dravyk]

Hey Mishi can you or Venturi get back to me? I've been ICQing him for a week and sent Venturi three emails but no responses. Thanks.

[venturi]

Hey Drav!

Damn, 3 emails??? I got one from you the other day, sorry I haven't replied back. It's been a hellish week household-wise and I dropped the ball.

I'll get something put together for you Friday. Again, sorry we were missing each other.

I dunno if Trillian crapped on me or what but didn't see any ICQ msgs. :( If your msgs don't seem to come thru try hitting up Mishi as well @ 479 66 255

Feel free to |lightsabe and |raygun| me at your convenience.

[spazlabz]

this is easy
-spammers
-playas
-wanna be suck up playas
-sh*t talking liars (I got this, I got that, I made this......and you suck because you aint sh*t compared to me) typing from their wheelless mobile home in grungy undies
-how some people in the biz really dont want anything to do with it. Drives me crazy.

I truly love this business, and I don't really ever want to walk away from it. If I won the lotto tomorrow i'd be making plans for my next big adult project. This business allows, no encourages you, to be a jack of all trades. There are so many different aspects for you to work on/with it amazes me how someone can become bored. I know submitting galleries can get old. I did it too, Dame still does. But BUILDING those galleries shouldn't be boring at all. Pushing yourself to make something look cool. I am telling you when I work a video if I do one thing different, something I havent done before and I like it, I run around the office getting everyone to come take a look LOL

So I'll post this 'hate' for others who might be to kind hearted

-some spaz running around telling everyone to come look at the cool thing he did with the text on THIS project (I do it at home too LOL)


spaz

[Sumrpal]

Originally posted by Tommy
what do you hate the most about this business


People who think that TGP/MPG is the greatest thing to ever be invented ... when in fact it is the most idiotic, ludicrous, self-defeating, destructive marketing/promotion system ever developed by mankind.

Well, you asked .... LOL

|peace|

[kristian]

Originally posted by Sumrpal
People who think that TGP/MPG is the greatest thing to ever be invented ... when in fact it is the most idiotic, ludicrous, self-defeating, destructive marketing/promotion system ever developed by mankind.

Well, you asked .... LOL

|peace|

Your www link leads to a tgp hub with hosted galleries. |jackinthe

[AcidMaX]

Originally posted by Verbal
More of a list of frustrations, but...

- cheaters, spammers, hackers
- doing mundane, repetitious daily tasks (reviewing, policing, etc.)
- prioritizing "what to do next"
- having a never-ending "to do" list
- keeping up with rapid industry changes
- little in-person social interaction, ie. hermit syndrome
- carpal tunnel, blurred vision, hallucinations, etc.

:)

Holy shit I'm not alone..hahahaha.

[Jim]

I hate getting ripped off for my life savings by someone I called brother :)

[Mr.Pat]

2 things i hate most:

1. people who say they want to get in the business but aren't serious about it, just in it for "sex" or whatever...

2. people who make judgement on what i do, when they are working for very dishonest/immoral people/organizations

[grzepa]

I hate hand-changing thumb names + the submiting thing isnt very exciting ;-)
Also sometimes I feel burnt with building free sites, and feel the need of exploring diffrent areas of this biz...I think I'll pay someone to design me a CHAMP site and will start promoting it...hmm a bit offtopic but wtf ;-)

Oh and there is such thing which I call beeing addicted to checking stats...its so unproductive but sometimes I cant help it :(

[nistka93]

i hate trying to come up with new templates for my freesites and also tring to get traffic to my LL

[Tommy]

Thats easy to fix getting listed at Richards Realm is great for driving traffic to a LL

[urb]

I hate the thought of doing something else for a living.

[SirMoby]

Originally posted by Mishi
I hate the double-standard that women who get a lot of sex are sluts and whores, but men who get a lot are studs. Hate in the mainstream, and really hate it in this business.

Fortunately, not everybody has that attitude; but it's still far too pervasive. |sad|
Not always true. Look at Venturi, he's a slut and every body knows it! |jester|

[LuckyS]

Originally posted by Jim
I hate getting ripped off for my life savings by someone I called brother :)

YES!

[chilihost]

I hate scammers more than cheaters. By scammers I mean people with whom you setup online partnerships/trades/deals and you go thru with your end but they either never bother doing their work or they do it and then try to scam you. That is so annoying!

Originally posted by grzepa
I hate hand-changing thumb names

maybe this program (http://www.1-4a.com/rename/download.htm) will help you, I use it all the time to rename files it works like a charm and it has an undo feature too, plus its totally free!


cheers,
Luke

[T Pat]

Originally posted by Mishi
I hate the double-standard that women who get a lot of sex are sluts and whores, but men who get a lot are studs. Hate in the mainstream, and really hate it in this business.

Fortunately, not everybody has that attitude; but it's still far too pervasive. |sad|

Mishi I hope my post about the whores didn't offend you, if it did I apologize
The thread seemed like a good place to vent The Escort emails got on my nerves yesterday.
I had a 19 year old politely ask one of the girls for the price to take his virginity. His response to the price "does that include shoving my dick in and pounding you in the ass". (I can think of a couple places I'd rather be first time at bat)
Have another guy that was so weird that I stopped responding to his emails start sending religiose crap to the girls
I usually refer to the prostitutes as the girls. I was upset because one of the girls missed a date and whore seemed a fiting term at the time, after all she is a registered card carrying sex worker.
I have "please treat the girls with respect they are my friends" in large bold text in the how it works section of Tijuana-Escorts and the members section of Tijuana-Whores.
Also written in bold letters on the index page of Tijuana-Whores I have "Tijuana-Whores Is A Web Site Built By A Whore Monger For The Education And Benefit Of Other Whore Mongers"
I really do like the girls and they don't mind me calling them Tijuana Whores. Putas is another matter |rasta|

[Tino]

2 things:

1. Downtime. Happens close to never, but when it happens.....

2. Having to change host. Its not really the extra work. Its the thought of what bussines you could have made with that work.

[finnbear]

I also hate downtime. Luckily I haven't had it lot - I use National Net like GG&Jim (was that spam?).

For me this has become more of a way of life than work. Well, submitting free site to 90 LLs is a work, lol!

I like building sites and I try to put something unique to each site I build. Sometimes I did it, sometimes not. Still, every site has some small drop of unique and luckily most of LLs list me.

I retire when I die. I ran a business where I had to travel all around Europe and old Soviet and work with people face to face. I love to sit on my ass all day, in my own home, never seeing anybody except my wife if I don't want. Some day I leave my house, fly to USA and meet you all in Vegas, but that day hadn't come yet. I want to see Grand Ole Opry, eat Gumbo and go to Chicago to listen some blues. If I have my Strato with me maybe they let me jam a little...hey FinnBear, let's play in G! |bananna|

[KCat]

Originally posted by SirMoby
I would say sitting on my ass all day.

That's definitely my number one complaint. A close second would be missing out on human interaction. I love the boards & would've gone nuts by now without them, but I miss the watercooler chat & face to face contact with co-workers.

No wonder folks go so nuts at conventions!

|bananna|

[spacemanspiff]

Mostly, this biz rocks. |bananna| It would really suck to have to get a real job, with one of those Boss things. They suck.|lightsabe

The only thing I don't like is bullshitting my daughter about what I do for a living. I tell her I do internet marketing and computer stuff. Fortunately I have some mainstream sites that are doing well so I can tell her to go search for something harmless and say "see, daddy made that site." But I still have to come up with a lame ass excuse why she has to stay out of my office when I'm working.

[finnbear]

Well, you are not lying. You do do internet marketing and computer stuff. My daughter is 24 so she is old enough to know her dad is a porn monger and dirty old man, heh heh...

I'm lucky to live with a woman who is diploma engineer in computing, so no one asks me for any computer advice. She has helped a lot of friends and relatives, though. These days they need a lot of help as their machines are full of spyware and viruses once a week, and as they don't speak english, they never learn to use proggies to get rid of them. They are also mostly old, older than us and will never learn to use computers like we.

Heh heh, my wife was shocked when she found out her father surf porn, but now that's allright. It seems you can believe anything from other people, but your own parents are saints.

[Bell]

1. dishonesty
2. hd crashes
3. browser hijacks
4. wannabees
5. obcious suckups - followers
6. sponsor link changes
7. people who don't keep promises
8. time wasters
9. people who think - they are better than you simply because:
. . .a. they've been at it longer
. . .b. make more money
. . .c. have more sites
. . .d. insert any lame reason - someone would think they are better...

10. people who take advantage of other people...

~Bell

[RawAlex]

Watching cheaters, scammers, and liars get ahead while honest people get shit on.

Watching everyone and their cousin suck up to the aforemetnioned scammers, wanting to get in on their stuff, then spouting off "I knew he was a scammer, that is why I didn't do business with him" - all the while accepting free booze, parties, and un-earned payments.

Browser / toolbar hijackers - there is a special place in the seventh ring of hell saved for you people. Add a red hot poker up your ass if your hijack is so persistant as to try to reinstall itself over and over, no matter how hard I try to get rid of it.

autosubmitting suckwads who don't know how to read the rules, submit crap I don't want, and then send me obscene emails when I won't list their crappy over compressed sponsor content on a free host.

People for forget that the object of porn is "pleasure"... there is no pleasure in rape, molestation, or KP.

People who thinkI own them a living.

I could go on. After 8+ years, it's easy.

Alex

[Mishi]

Originally posted by SirMoby
Not always true. Look at Venturi, he's a slut and every body knows it! |jester|

Good point! |cheers|

[Mishi]

Originally posted by TijuanaPat
Mishi I hope my post about the whores didn't offend you, if it did I apologize

Not at all, Pat. My post was in no way directed at you. :)

[Nickname]

Being so difficult to get listed on Tommys Bookmarks |knockout|

nah, seriousley, you guys have listed them all.......|shake|

[dirtyjumbo]

I hate the fact that I have to look at naked chicks all day long LOL |rasta|

[spacemanspiff]

Originally posted by dirtyjumbo
I hate the fact that I have to look at naked chicks all day long LOL |rasta|

Yeah, that parts kind of rough, but we all have our crosses to bear. :D

[Jaden]

I hate that I signed up with a sponsor who ripped me off by never sending my check out, and now I always hesitate a bit before trying out a new sponsor

[Dravyk]

Originally posted by venturi
Feel free to |lightsabe and |raygun| me at your convenience. Four emails now. :(
Consider yourself to have been |raygun| , |pissleft| , |chainsaw| , and |samauri| -ed.

[mist]

I hate the time, it’s never enough to do all that important stuff you’ll need to do.

Mist

[digifan]

Hmm what can I add to the list? Maybe that I could do some easy money with modeling anytime but I am not content.. not fair.

[digifan]

Originally posted by Dravyk
Four emails now. :(
Consider yourself to have been |raygun| , |pissleft| , |chainsaw| , and |samauri| -ed.

Lol like you have answered my last email I sent as a reply to yours.

|couch|

[Dravyk]

Originally posted by digifan
Lol like you have answered my last email I sent as a reply to yours.

|couch| Eeesh! I didn't? I'm in the shit house.

Let me see if I got it. Either way I'll either reply to you or ask for a re-send. :)

[digifan]

Np lol Dravyk... I resent it then gave up on you thinking you were too busy,
|waves| |smooch|

[SlickRick]

I hate reviewing toon sites that use their sponsor censored toon content...

[SlickRick]

Originally posted by kristian
I have a To Kill List (ala steve buscemi, in The Jerk) :D


I dont remeber steve buscemi In the jerk?