If you’ve ever in your life considered adult webmastering, or as I’m fond of calling it, cyber-pimping porn, sooner or later (hopefully sooner), you’re going to run across and find yourself in an adult webmaster forum. Adult webmaster forums are both good and bad, but most definitely necessary for any newbie adult webmaster. And you most definitely get more out of them than they get out of you. Still, I’m going to discuss the down side of them, since the positive side should already be obvious enough.
The first thing that comes to my mind when I enter an adult webmaster forum is a state penitentiary. The fresh fish, or in web-speak “newbies”, are immediately pounced upon by the more senior webmasters offering guidance, support and anything else the fresh little fishy could want to make his future endeavor a prosperous one. Is this done out of the kindness of the older wiser webmasters’ hearts? Not quite! He wants to make you his kid. Relax, if he uses enough grease, you’re probably going to like it.
You see, adult webmastering (as well as internet webmastering in general), works on a pyramid scheme of sorts except no one is supposed to get screwed. The reason no one gets screwed is quite simple: most people don’t hang in there long enough to even get results. It took me six months to make my first sale and that was just dumb luck (it was actually three sales but with the same sponsor so I shouldn’t brag). I probably could have cut that time at least in half if I had listened more closely to some of the guys/gals I’m presently ragging on. My point is the competition for the bottom feeders is fierce because a webmaster with enough webmasters signed up under him in theory doesn’t have to do too much if anything himself any longer.
There is nothing wrong with signing up to a sponsor under any webmaster because you can’t possibly get screwed. If you get a sign up, that webmaster gets a percentage payout from the sponsor based on your sale which isn’t deducted from your sale. It’s a win win except maybe for the webmaster you signed up under who would have much preferred the sale. The problem comes in with products, especially hosting accounts. I get more into this in another post, but here’s the quickie: there are various ways to sell porn, but the better and most reliable ones come by using pictures and movie clips. Pictures and movie clips burn bandwidth. Bandwidth costs money, often lots and lots of money.
The thing I don’t like about this is that I believe it drives newbies off before they even learn the basic ins and outs. That and certain holier than thou attitudes from the moral porn right (seriously, there really is one – or so they’d lead you to believe).
The worse thing you can do when entering any forum that’s not social (although those are pretty much fronts for the same thing – if not for something much worse) is introduce yourself as a newbie. You are by far much better off lurking until you get to know who’s who and what’s what. This also gives you some idea of what not to say so you don’t end up getting yourself banned. Lurk, listen, learn and I guess when it’s time to find a kid or two of your own, reveal yourself.
Here’s an example of what happens when you step out of line or maybe just because someone running a forum doesn’t like you, or as explicitly stated in their own words with this reason given… “none”
