Squirt,

I would tend to agree with you on the basis of this debate however, it should also be pointed out that it isnt only indicative of the gay market, or, straight webmasters / companies.

In fact, i could point out countless amounts of straight sites (both gay and straight owned) that do this exact same thing.

I do however feel that when it comes to the gay market to some extent, the fault does lie with the owners of such sites who have the mindset that they need to flood the industry with as many sites as possible whilst not knowing enough information about the types of markets or niches that they have paysites for. Im going to see if i can get Sarah from Webinc over here to reply to this thread to as she and i have had a conversation on a similar topic to this a few months ago specifically about how many of the straight webmasters treat others in the industry both male, female, gay and straight.

Of course back with the topic at hand, i think part of the issue specifically with the gay sites side of things is that many of the straight companies who do operate gay websites really have no clue what they are doing because they look at us as just another niche which as everyone here knows, we arent

IMHO it all boils down to they want to make money in the gay market however they really dont know enough about it or, where to find further information about the variety of niches we have and of course, there are also those webmasters who do know where to find the information but because they have a fear of being ridiculed by posting on 'perceived' gay boards by their peers they wont ask for or, accept our help

Then there are those webmasters who are straight and think they know everything about the gay market whilst continually goading gay surfers and webmasters because they seem to think they have more right to be correct all of the time despite the reality that they really know nothing and most of what those individuals think they do know, is either stale information that worked several years ago or is complete mis-information given to them by people who know no better.

Will be good to see what everyone else on GWW thinks about this topic too i know from past conversations with various community members there are some strong feelings about this subject overall :thumbsup:

Regards,

Lee