I Want to Improve the Experience Project

Getting serious advertising revenue on this website--why didn't EP management ever show competence in doing that? This site had a huge membership. Why didn't they hire somebody who was a real pro at getting the advertising flow the website needed? It seemed like the boss was determined to run EP as an insular, amateur operation, nobody over 35 allowed. Always "a tiny team."

I stopped seeing ads in 2014 as a Supporter. Before then, the kind of ads I would see were "Meet Russian Women", Adult Friend Finder, and ads that would show a pretty young woman with gigantic breasts and saying she is 2.3 miles away from me, LOL! Somebody else described the ads to me now as "there are still busty ones, plus male enhancement ones, moneymaking schemes, and ones that feature bizarre and disturbing physical deformities, ostensibly clickbait articles leading to more advertisements." Atrocious! If Playboy and Penthouse have had ads for all these decades, why couldn't EP develop a strong advertising operation?

I do not pretend to have a great understanding of business or of the Internet or of Internet business, so I am quite willing to listen to what more knowledgeable people on these things have to say.

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thenicholasexperience

lol From my understanding, the bigger issue has to do with legal matters. As you may or may not heard, someone met someone from EP IRL and was murdered. While I really don't see how hard it could be to trace someone on the internet, but I guess law enforcement/FBI wants it spelled out for them. I'm not sure why so many sites still struggle with these issues. CL seems to have worked out the kinks. Other than administration costs, I don't see how this site could cost too much to run.

I also believe the owners now feel like I did after two weeks on here. The actual experience of this site doesn't match the purpose. It's still a worthwhile site, but it's no where near it's mission statement.

conceptualclarity · M

EP cannot be held responsible for a murder involving people who privately traded contact information. I think EP warns people at the outset to be careful about sharing contact info.

Interesting that you say you don't think the site could take too much money to run.

thenicholasexperience

I'm not saying it costs next to nothing but it's certainly no FB.

Yes it gives the warning, but take the recent thing with Apple... My guess is that they went through something similar.

tulick

why doesn't that surprise me

plus they made everything harder to find and harder to use

people bark about the censorship but i was never happier than we i stopped seeing groups like 'i want all 3 holes filled at once'

attracting people by the way who didn't know it wasn't a porn site

Earthbob

You didn't have to subscribe to EP groups you didn't like. Lots of real normal people have "bizarre" sexual fantasies and EP allowed them to share with each other. The inane censorship was a big negative for EP.

tulick

oh it got inane i won't argue with you but 'the don't subscribe to groups you don't like thing never worked because someone in my circle would join, comment on a group or story like that and there it was in my home stream (gag)

conceptualclarity · M

"take the recent thing with Apple... My guess is that they went through something similar."
Only recent thing with Apple I know about is the San Bernadino cellphone deal. Could you elaborate?