Ozzy said:
You don't want UG to have a private (pay for access) review section or forum... because the only way that can work is if it's supply side free. And you and the rest here can't stand that there's a place you don't have access too. (its that entitlement thing again)
You don't want UG to charge lurkers for access. Even though they're the ones obviously getting the most and giving back the least. Freloaders as some would call them.
It's already been shown that membership here won't voluntarily support UG enough to keep it financially stable.
It's already been shown that most whores don't like the site or would rather steal from it than support it.
So where's the money supposed to come from? Shut the site down or make it completely a paid site.... which either management chooses will eliminate all your cherished lurkers and pretty much everyone else.
Ozzy,
I don't care about the "private" review board...because I already have my reputation laid out and EVERYBODY knows what I look like, what I do and etc.
A private review board will not affect my business...period. The doggie board has a gold VIP area, where just the guys who earned their stars have access to it and also *** now has a new private board for guys only.
So I should I care if UG has a private section? I know, for sure, that you will not be talking about me, because there is nothing to talk about...I'm all in the open with myself and my ways.
Now...why should guys have to pay for access of information that they can get in other places, for free, or thru backchannel?
UG do not have a flock of girls that are exclusive and the only way guys coould find about them was to join in.
All the girls here are the same elsewhere...and how many public, private and UTR boards are around?
Actually, I belong to few UTR boards and they are....quiet. I don't get business from them at all and neither the other girls because is sooooo selective to few gentlemen, is more like those old yahoo clubs.
You know, Slinky should really let you start with the private paid board...and I bet, in few months, you will be wanting all the lurkers back, because there will be no one to read your posts.
In one of the threads Slinky mentioned, and I think you did too, that no other board has the volume of people clicking on it like this one...yes, but all the numbers you have ARE FROM LURKERS!!!!
One more thing...UG needs to attract advertisers and NOT clse the doors on them....going private, it will close the door.
Once you lose advertisers and lurkers, they will find other places to hang out and put their money in.
And they will not return....