Am I right to be pissed?

[Toby]

Docholly, my experience with solo girl sites has been as you mentioned. Most have gone out of their way to get me anything I needed. Some have even given me a pass to their sites so I can select my own promo content from their member area galleries.

Audrey, as solo girl sites go, this one is quite large and has been around a long time. I was dealing with her husband, who manages the site and sent out the initial email this morning. I suppose he could just be having a bad day, which is why I haven't named the site.

UW,

[AdorableAudrey]

LOL...I told you I was too forgiving! Actually I was typing up my response still when you posted more information about the situation. I totally agree that the response sucked, I just also had a twinge of sympathy as a solo girl because I know it really is impossible to please everyone. Just feels like everyone wants a piece of you some days...still no excuse to be rude to the people who are supporting and promoting you.

[Tommy]

Originally Posted by Toby

as solo girl sites go, this one is quite large and has been around a long time. I was dealing with her husband, who manages the site and sent out the initial email this morning. I suppose he could just be having a bad day, which is why I haven't named the site.

ahhh.....I know who this is, any dealings I have had with the husband often seem cold and unfriendly but I think its just his personality

a long time ago Greenie was like that to :-)

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Tommy

...a long time ago Greenie was like that to :-)

I'm still cold & unfriendly

I bet the reason that they don't send out bigger pics is that too many webmasters complained when they were putting up decent sized pics, because they had to compress/resize them...and to those webmasters, I say "Go find another 2nd job!" Resizing pics is part of making sites & this is what happens when you listen to lazy webmasters.

[Torn Rose]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

I bet the reason that they don't send out bigger pics is that too many webmasters complained when they were putting up decent sized pics, because they had to compress/resize them...

Or it could be they are just assholes who think they are better then everyone else?

[Surfn]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

I'm still cold & unfriendly

Amen to that you heartless banning bastard

[Mr. Blue]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

...and to those webmasters, I say "Go find another 2nd job!" Resizing pics is part of making sites & this is what happens when you listen to lazy webmasters.

I wish more sponsors would stop courting webmasters that don't know wtf they're doing. They're bending over backwards to work with webmasters that basically want everything done for them.

It's getting to the point where you wonder why some sponsors even need affiliates. Sponsors supply: hosting, gallery building software, canned graphics (headers, footers, etc), content (some supply thumbnails, photos resized, etc), fhg...what's left for the affiliate to do? The only thing I see left is for the affiliate to spam the shit out of tgps, ll, etc, with all this pre-made crap.

[Trixie]

I'm no great prize as far as sponsors go, but I can't believe someone would RESIZE a photo by making it BIGGER. That doesn't seem like an option to me. That is the kind of stuff I see affiliates do and think, "thanks for nothing". Thanks for making our content look totally crappy.

I wonder if they provided small pics is because they thought that would decrease the chances of people feeling the need to diminish the quality in order to scrimp on bandwidth. Did the content look good other than that? How much smaller than 600 pixels are we talking about?

It does seem lame that they wouldn't just give you a pass to their site to get what you need. My motto is, if I can't help you, help yourself.

[Chop Smith]

Originally Posted by Trixie

...My motto is, if I can't help you, help yourself.

I like your motto.

[selena]

Originally Posted by Trixie

I'm no great prize as far as sponsors go, but I can't believe someone would RESIZE a photo by making it BIGGER. That doesn't seem like an option to me. That is the kind of stuff I see affiliates do and think, "thanks for nothing". Thanks for making our content look totally crappy.

I've done that quite often with a femdom sponsor who, for whatever reasons, does not provide 600 min pics.

It has never made the content look crappy, or I wouldn't have used it.

[Useless]

Let me hijack this thread momentarily on the topic of giving affiliates access the to a site's members area. Now, I realize that sites like Trixie's and Raven's and other such model owned sites won't have this issue because they shoot their own content, so my question is aimed towards non-personality sites. Many content licenses specifically disclude use by affiliates. In other words, the content can be used solely by the purchaser on his/her sites, but cannot be shared with affiliates. How do sponsors deal with this? Do you purchase only content that is licensed for every use under the sun (which is waaaaay more expensive), or you do inform affiliates of specific sets that can or cannot be used?