HA: animosity outweighs the curiosity

[tgirlzoe]

oh, and leave your nose alone!

beauty isn't purchased on an operating table. you are beautiful because of who you are! always remember that! of course, you're beautiful physically too!

you know what would make you 10x prettier? smile!

[Ecstatic]

I agree, I love your nose as is, Melissa. You're beautiful, and thanks for sharing more of your artwork, you're very talented.

[tgirlzoe]

yay pussy!

[peggygee]

yay pussy!

My thoughts exactly.

Beautiful artwork, both pieces.

[Night Rider]

Here's my 2cents. Drama attracts numbers regardless of whether we agree or not. More people = More sales. The TS that get all the negativity aimed at them are hardly innocent, are they?

I agree that sometimes this place is rife with drama but if there was no drama, there wouldn't be several threads discussing it, therefore this place would quickly become a faster tgirltalk.com only with less people that actually buy the porn.

[peggygee]

Here's my 2cents. Drama attracts numbers regardless of whether we agree or not. More people = More sales. The TS that get all the negativity aimed at them are hardly innocent, are they?

I agree that sometimes this place is rife with drama but if there was no drama, there wouldn't be several threads discussing it, therefore this place would quickly become a faster tgirltalk.com only with less people that actually buy the porn.

This may not be totally apropos to your statement:

I am a member of a number of a few forums that are strictly regulated.

If you fart in your own house, you're likely to get vacationed - j/k.

But they don't allow flaming. They will lock a thread if it becomes
unproductive. And they will ban a person if that person truly gets out
of hand.

Now admittedly it's not a porn based site, and it is only for women, but it
does have a very large membership.

Then there are also other forums that I belong to that aren't transrelated,
and I don't have to wear asbestos panties, and they have very large
memebership.

So why are there these major differences in the levels of civility?

Is it all the pent up sexual energy on here.

[Night Rider]

So why are there these major differences in the levels of civility?

I understand some posters frustrations in threads being hi-jacked Peggy, but the direct flame threads shouldn't be a problem. This site's priority is to sell porn and as you well know, as sad as it is, more drama = more people = more porn sales. It's a sad reality.

[trish]

oh so we should all be assholes for capitalism? nice! i think you'll find the flames are actually driving people away. it's the porn that draws not the antics.

[Night Rider]

oh so we should all be assholes for capitalism? nice!

Did I say that? NO

i think you'll find the flames are actually driving people away. it's the porn that draws not the antics.

I think you'll find that the flames have actually attracted people here other than holy rollers, I am sure of this. I never said it was right, I said they attract more people than they scare away, which in turn sales more porn.

I gave an opinion, accept it if you want Trish, but don't make it personal.

[Ecstatic]

oh so we should all be assholes for capitalism? nice!

Did I say that? NO

i think you'll find the flames are actually driving people away. it's the porn that draws not the antics.

I think you'll find that the flames have actually attracted people here other than holy rollers, I am sure of this. I never said it was right, I said they attract more people than they scare away, which in turn sales more porn.

I gave an opinion, accept it if you want Trish, but don't make it personal.

It depends. I don't know HA's marketing plan, but if banner ad sales are tied to pageviews, then the drama is a net gain for the forum. If not, then it's a net cost (serving more bandwidth with no increase in revenue). I doubt that the increased pageviews resulting from the drama and flame fests add a whit to product sales through the site; I strongly suspect that, given the size of the audience, such sales plateau at a certain point and would not gain from additional pageviews.