When I first started the forum way back in 1997, it was primarily for the exchange of information regarding LEGAL whores operating out of the govt sanctioned red light districts.
At the request of many members, I also added a section on Health Centres accompanied by a warning that sex in HCs was illegal and could lead to serious consequences.
However, when the govt (not me) opened the floodgates to foreign whores, the sammyboy forum was seen by astute operators as potential goldmine for the marketing of such services and traffic, bandwidth and forum overheads soared more than 500% in a short space of a year.
I tried my best to keep the forum true to its roots by setting up an obscure alternative FL forum on a different host and removing freelancer threads and posts in the main forum. However, the task overwhelmed me and I did not fancy the idea of spending hours moderating the forum on a daily basis. I have much more interesting things to do with my life.
It soon became obvious that the good old easy going spirit of sharing was not going to pay the astronomical bandwidth and hosting bill at the end of the month. I was therefore forced to make a stark choice... either shut down the forum or turn it into a commercially viable entity.
Since I didn't have the logistical set up necessary to run the forum profitably, I leased the forum to those who did.
For once, I am amazed to see that you have totally pushed off the blame to the rest of the people except yourself. Your forum has a moderation scheme where your user has to post a certain number of postings in order to get out of moderation. Imagine, which operator will do that if they have to go through the moderation, get the nick being deleted and again register a new one?
If you want to run your entity this way saying that you have nothing to do with this, whatever.
But.....read the next one down there
My advice to you is that if you're not happy with the forum, DON'T VISIT! Nobody is stopping you from setting up a competing website where you are free to do whatever you please. However, don't expect the moderators at sammyboyforum.com to give you FREE PUBLICITY by allowing you to post your links and promote your site. The internet does not work that way anymore. If you want to advertise your own forum or group, then PAY for the adverts just like everyone else.
I started sammyboyforum from scratch. I never sent a single spam mail. Neither did I post a single message in any other forum. There is no reason why you can't do the same if you set your mind to it.
If you have obviously not get the whole picture, then let me tell you the whole picture since you tell us yours.
I did not set up a competing website to compete with you. In your vbulletin forum, there is a social group platform for members to run their own social group. I run a social group sharing field reports because field reports in your main forum which relates a poor and lousy service either gets deleted by your moderators or the person who posts the field report gets zapped to moderation.
What happened to this social group? It got closed down by
YOU. When you closed down the social group, you didn't even bothered explaining until I PMed you twice.
Twice. 2 times. Dua You said the social group was closed down because it lagged your whole forum.
Whether this is a valid reason or not, i leave it to everyone else to think. So I set up a yahoo group. I have no other platform for other people who wish to post their field reports in your forum, because your whole social group is down. I set up a free forum for people to post. If your social group is up for people like us to share, I wouldn't even have to set up a yahoo group or even a website for people like you to say now I am setting up something to compete with you.
Soon your moderator start to censure the forum and even the yahoo group. I understand. The field reports in the forum are starting to affect some of your guilty operators or should I say pimps which you have inevitably 'endorsed' to advertise in your forum.
Your pimp even go to the extent of getting the yahoo group deleted and the forum shutdown. This is how threatened they felt.
Now I return back this sentence you said.
I am not going to go into the laws and ethics regarding the current model. It is the PAP govt who created the current situation. I have nothing to do with planeloads of whores who arrive in the country on a daily basis. The govt could shut down the freelancer trade OVERNIGHT at the source if they wanted to but they have done nothing. I leave it to you to read between the lines.
Since you don't wish to go into the laws and ethics, I wouldn't because you and me belong to the same. morally unethical. You set up a sex forum, while I read one.
It is you who created the current situation. I have nothing to do with the planeloads of pimps who chose to advertise in your forum on a daily basis. Sammyboy which is you could shut down the freelancer domain OVERNIGHT at the source if you want to but have done nothing. I leave it to you to read between the lines.
You want me to open my eyes on your take, can, sure, no problem. but you should open your eyes on what others are saying and not be blinded by your greed of money just by saying you leased it out to another company. Unless you are telling me you don't earn a single cent from leasing that forum out.