Wetlook World Forum

Firstly, this forum was created by a wetlook producer in 1998 (Minx Movies) and is still owned and operated by that wetlook producer. It was created by Minx Movies as a free service to the wetlook fans, and in order to continue for the last 19 years as a continuous free service it required some financial support in order to pay for server and bandwidth costs. Thus, this has always been a produced funded forum supported by the producers who make financial contributions in order to have their banners placed on this forum. If this were to become a totally ad-free and producer-free forum, it would need to be changed into a subscription service where every member would need to buy a subscription to view this forum. Or it would be like Wikipedia.....annoying you with pop up add to donate, donate, donate etc.

In recent years the amount of financial support Minx receives has dwindled to the point where much of the costs for running this forum has come from Minx's own pocket.....so kudos to Nigel for keeping this forum going, largely at his own expense,  for the last 19 years.

Having said that......there are some changes that could be made in order to improve the situation of commercial vs non-commercial postings.

Most other  forums I visit  (e,g, the Aquafans,net underwater fans forum) segregate things nicely via creating SUB FORUMS....where the commercial posting are restricted to a PRODUCERS SUB FORUM only, and the non commercial fan postings are posted in other forums such as :STORIES, TV AND MOVIES, GENERAL DISCUSSION, OFF TOPIC etc etc. I have lobbied Nigel at Minx many tmes over the last 15 years to create sub forums here and for producer postings to be segregated into a separate forum.....but Nigel has always rejected this idea because he prefers all kinds of messages to be lumped together in one message board. My alternate request to Nigel would be.....if you will not open sub forums.....then at least make a new message icon for PRODUCERS and require all producers to use that icon and then set a filter system that can permit the users to FILTER OUT all messages posted by producers.

Another forum I visit (UMD.net) has much tighter etiquette rules for Producers than this forum has.....e.g. on the UMD forums they have etiquette rules for producers, asking them to not post more than 1 promotional message per day.....yet on this forum we often see the same producers posting several advertising messages on the same day. Producers need to follow a better etiquette and not keep posting several messages promoting several individual products on the same day. Use a bit of common sense - if you have several things you wish to promote.....group them all together in one message and not litter the forum with several individual messages on the same day.

If you are a producer who has many websites and many items to promote all the time.......e.g. I have many websites and often have 20-30 videos at a time to promote,,,...do as I do....use Twitter and Facebook, and avoid bombardng this forum too many times....use social media accounts instead.....use some restraint.

Thats my 2 cents.

MK