A friendly debate on what is amateur .

[furrygirl]

Originally Posted by sbm4latinaz

Now , dreamnet , southern charms , and webhoneys are pay sites but they still have an amateur feel .

The reason I would never promote a Southern Charms site is, despite the painfully ugly template designs, the women providing the content only get 50% of the sales and don't own their content, and I prefer promoting people like me who run the show themselves. (When it comes to single-girl sites, anyway.) How is that any more "amateur" when a large company is selling content they bought from women, masquerading as personal DIY sites? The content may be low-brow, but I've never liked the dynamics of SC. Although, I have heard women like me who have their "real" site and then a little SC site, and say it brings in good amounts of cash for little effort and are happy with it. I just wouldn't want someone else owning my content and having control over a web site that's supposedly made by me and from my perspective.

On a side, speaking of painfully ugly designs, I'll never understand people who judge a web girl's worth based on how poorly-done her site is. There are the "militant amateur" folk who seem to think that any site that's well-done and have decent photography is just made by some "fake porn star bimbo" and not a "real person". Isn't the very essence of being a real person the ability to learn from mistakes and get better at the things we do? There must come a point for some people where they know how to take better photos and make more user-friendly sites, and they decide to purposefully keep it crappy to not lose their "amateur" appeal. Crazy.