Gaybutton Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 All of a sudden we're getting personal ads posted here. While I have no objection to it at all if people wish to make such posts, I wonder if they are reading this board before they post. This is not a hookups board. I have a feeling some other board somewhere is referring people to this board for hookups or some search engine is sending people this way. I don't know how much, if any, success or satisfaction personal ads posters are going to find here. To me, posting personal ads on this forum makes about as much sense as posting ads for feminine hygiene deodorant on web sites for ceiling fans. They're welcome to try if they wish, but I think they would have much better luck on sites such as Gay Romeo: http://www.gayromeo.com Rate Fun: http://www.ratefun.net and other personals sites. Feel free to post additional links to your favorite gay personals sites, if you wish. GT, if people are going to start posting personal ads here, maybe we ought to consider an additional forum for personals. Quote
Guest fountainhall Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 Personally I hope you do not add in a personals section as I think this demand is perfectly adequately covered on other sites. Quote
PattayaMale Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 If you are looking for suggestions I would wait awhile and see how many personals you get. It is possible that we may be having some trolls or pranksters just having fun....pretending to be what they aren't to see if they get any replies. Quote
Gaybutton Posted June 25, 2009 Author Posted June 25, 2009 It is possible that we may be having some trolls or pranksters just having fun....pretending to be what they aren't to see if they get any replies. That is a very good point, one I hadn't thought of. I suppose there are plenty of people out there with nothing better to do. However, so far nothing is really in evidence to suggest that those posts are from pranksters, so for the moment I'm taking them seriously. And yes, suggestions are exactly what I'm looking for. Fountainhall's point is also well taken. He's right. There are plenty of gay personals sites out there and I agree with him that there is no need to turn this site into yet another one. That, of course, is GT's decision. For the time being there is no problem. There are not enough of those posts to concern me - only enough to raise my eyebrows in curiosity and puzzlement as to why they're suddenly appearing here. I was more concerned for the people posting their ads to succeed in finding what they're looking for. So far there are not enough of those posts to cause concern about the nature of this forum. But if this forum starts gaining a reputation out there as a place to post personal ads, and if a lot of people start doing that, then that has the potential of becoming a problem, so I guess I'm looking for solutions now, in case it really does start becoming an issue. Quote
Guest thaiworthy Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 I have always thought of GayThailand.com as a pick-up site. For a few years, I did not even know it had a message board! The first thing you see are profiles of other members, from newest to most viewed, which looks to me as if to say, "hey, we're a pickup site, use our search engine to find other members!" And so I did for a while, but that's all there seemed to be. I never noticed the link at the top that read "message board." I thought the "message board" was just a way to send private messages to other members. Little did I know it was a real live forum. I had actually thought at one time that GB's gaythailand was just a fictional site in cyberspace neverland. I read that GB was the moderator of this forum because of references to it on gaytingtong. And every time I came back here, I got frustrated, "where is this damn forum?" Again, all it seemed to contain where profiles, pictures and searches. To me, that screams "pick-up site." And there are certainly enough of those around. I guess I must be incredibly dense or don't know how to navigate web sites very well, but that's my history of what led me to here. I think I finally stumbled onto this forum by accident. But if this first impression occurred to me, then maybe it occurs to others as well. After all, if you look at your window's title bar, what does it say? Mine says "GayThailand.com Forum-- Gay Personals and Hookups!" The posting of personal ads does not surprise me at all. What surprises me is that there aren't more of them. Quote
Guest xiandarkthorne Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 I don't think we should allow the posting of personal ads on this or any of the forums at this board. The main website has enough of that as it is, though I confess it is a pain in the neck to use for contacts - the downloading is slow and takes a very long time if you are using a dial-up line like me. I do agree that people have the wrong idea about the forums here, but then again, shouldn't the moderators be doing something about the contact ads? Imagine having to wade through tons of "I am looking for you-know-what" just to locate the informative threads... Quote
Guest buckeroo2 Posted June 26, 2009 Posted June 26, 2009 if you are using a dial-up line like me. Deleted Quote
