Some of you may have noticed that the latest trend in adult industry copying is copying Digg. The idea is that instead of posting lists of links to photo galleries as pioneered by the original Thumbnail Gallery Posts, visitors submit links to galleries themselves and then edit the submissions by voting on what they like most.
This is a shitty idea.
The jizz-bizz is know for ethics that’d make a politician blush and one of the biggest problems faced by all TGP’s is fraudulent links. Webmasters love to bait-and-switch, re-routing links in order to steer users to suit their ends. Pop-ups are another well known problem and to maintain the quality of their sites TGP owners spend hours screening links.
User submitted content will have to be screened by readers. While at Digg that’s an editorial process, for a porn site most of the editing will involve trawling through spam, pop-up graveyards and images that would make a butcher puke.
So we’ve tried to be a little smarter at TGP.
TGP - which now stands for ‘Team Gallery Post’ - takes the user submitted content idea and voting but skirts the problems that causes by hosting the content in a central location. That means you don’t have to worry about clicking links that take you to the wrong place and you don’t have to worry about pop-ups.
As a webmaster, model, exhibitionist, publisher or blogger exploiting TGP simply requires you to upload your photos and information. You don’t have to build webpages and you don’t need an affiliate program to promote your stuff (or yourself all you camera-phone exhibitionists). If your content’s popular you’ll win lots of votes and get promoted to our frontpage and RSS feed. The cover of Time is then just decades away. Use it for fun, business, or as a way of making money. Affiliate links are no problem and thus you can get paid cash for converting users sent directly from TGP’s pages.
The only thing TGP is missing right now is submissions. We’re in beta - which means some stuff is going to break, and we need a few brave and patient pioneers to use the site and break it some more. I don’t want to shout too loudly until we’ve had a few days to see what happens. Hence this personal invitation to try our new stuff out for yourself. Upload, vote, and comment away. There are only a few hundred thousand people watching. Interested?
Sounds like fun… *rubs dirty pornographer’s hands together*
Kudos! I see you there (shaking that ass…)
If I was a program-owner, I would so fry your ass…
Pornster - Why? (N.B Grilled ass is healthier)
I don’t like how you use the program-owner’s content.
I noticed that on the previous version of TGP already. There were links to Skinvideo all over the place. Do you think the sponsors will be happy if they see their content used to promote other programs?
Pornster - Every TGP has multiple links out and every piece of content at TGP is used to promote its program. The content’s being used exactly as it’s designed to be. Take a look at some big babelogs (e.g. babes.coolios.net) and you’ll see almost identical structure. The benefit to the content providers is maintained - I know they see that as many of them are friends of mine.