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Martin_M wrote:

Its a good idea, but the problem is they then join as couples or single fems. I will have a think about it though

Thanks

Tim and Lene wrote:

Martin & Elliot,

The mischevious part of me is thinking that if you want to make money from the site, why not charge the single guys to access the photo ads and give free premium membership to everyone else.

This is an unpopular thing to say, but it might help sort out some of the imbalances in who uses the photo ads part of the site. At the moment there are a LOT of single guys, compared to the number of couples/single females advertising for them.

Oh, do we get an invite to the Symbios Xmas party.

Mister_Discreet wrote:

As you admit to not knowing the site too well, here's a bit of constructive feedback on your proposals...



One fundamantal point you may have missed about this site is that it's actually 4 different fairly insular communities, that only have limited cross-over.

1) The Cafe/Let's Meet Up crowd are the ones you are talking to now. We are probably the most resistant to change, and we are also quite possibly the biggest drain on bandwidth, racking up 1000s of page hits per day each.

2) The chatroom crowd. Lovely people, excellent speed readers, but have a tendency to press x dozens of times whenever someone they know turns up. The hardcore use MIRC and therefore probably can't be advertised to.

3) The Dogging Forum people. Some overlap with the rest of the site, but it can be seen as a bit of a ghetto. Not much revenue potential unless you can do a deal with NCP car parks.

4) Photo Ad users. As you know if you've looked at the traffic figures, this is the big bit of the site, but the crossover from there to the other parts isn't as big as you might imagine. Probably your best bet for money making, as this is the part of the site with the most transient visitors, and the part of the site that people would probably expect to be a commerical venture.

Because this site is so split, unless you want to drive traffic from one section to another, I don't really see the value of a unified log-in, tying in IRC will present headaches, and the ability to ban people from certain parts of the ite but ot others will need work to support.



The site already provides this! See "Personal Pages" on the lefthand menu. I assume you mean more photos in the photo ads, where there is a limit of 3? Nice, but non essential, and it will cost you a lot of bandwidth.



Hmm, we already have 'reply to photo ads', the ability to PVT in chat, and PM on the forum. Each has their uses, so unification seems once again to be tricky, and unnecessary.



As I have said before... nice, but difficult. The current resistance to camming can be seen by the site policy of only allowing people to mention camming in one single thread over in 'Let's Meet up'. I thnk there is potential for money making there, but probably not from the forum crowd.



We already have forum profiles, and the Photo Ads. Another idea thet I think falls into the 'diffcult and not really beneficial' category.



Again, nice, but problematic. People move about, can't spell, or wish to keep their location secret.



Long overdue... but has to be paid for somehow!



I'm glad to see you have lots of ideas, and a drive to make the site better. I'm sure the SH community will be happy to 'muck in' and help with suggestions and (where needed) manpower. You have bought access to this resource, so why not use it, and ask us how you could do things better or make money without driving us away?

Jay wrote:

. If we don't like how it turns out we will vote with our feet .

Jags wrote:



Dino - I did it and I said it wasn't the new owner doing it. I have removed it to another part of the site where it is intact - however it was clearly in breach of the site AUP and couldn't stand.

tattyxpx wrote:

Hawd the bus!!!!! so/..... sorry but its ok for the site "new owner" to come waltzing into our chatroom with rules that were set in place to keep the chat room running smoothly, to come waltzing in... breaking almost every rule on his first visit, and i'm expected to do absolutely feck all....