My vote... No... many business owners would not want their sites and therefore their businesses associated with that industry. Unless you're trying to convince a porn purveyor to build his site in CF, I don't see any thing positive coming out of a list of porn sites mixed in with more "upstanding" businesses.
In the corporate world and elsewhere, image (which is partly defined by who one associates with) is critical. Rick -----Original Message----- From: Rey Bango [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 2:42 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: GotCFM.com - Need Opinion on Whether to Approve a Site haha. Great feedback Mik. This is a site that I developed but I want everybody to feel good about showing the list off. So you guys tell me what you want. I'll put it up to a vote. Yes or no to adult themed sites? Majority rules. End of story. Rey... Mik Muller wrote: > Rey, > > I would argue that, while there's nothing wrong with a little nipple now and then, those kinds of websites are an industry that isn't generally intermingled with everything else. There's a reason such magazines are in a different section of the cigar shop (in the back, under wraps). > > I was joking when I suggested a separate section on your site. I think a separate section is not such a good idea because then you're listing a bunch of porn sites on one page and (a) how distracting will that be and (b) is that the kind of message we're trying to send? "Hey, here's a bunch of porn sites, filtered just for your entertainment, that use CF." It's not a service I think you started out to provide. Watch where you tread and where the path leads. > > So, in the end, it's YOUR site, Rey, and it's up to YOU to decide if those kinds of sites are acceptible. If it were me? Call me a prude[,] butt[,] I wouldn't list them. The adult shop? Sure. The overt meat? Nah. Let someone else do that and post a link to it. Maybe the Dutch guy can do that for you. He'd certainly make some Google bucks on it. > > Mik > > > At 01:54 PM 3/5/2007, Mark A Kruger wrote: >> I would prefer a separate category or page for "adult" or "mature" themed >> sites. Here's my reasoning - posted in good humor and with no intent to >> flame or be flamed... (I forgot my asbestos underwear today). >> >> For me this is less a moral issue than a business issue. The owners of the >> sites that I've submitted (about 10 or 15 sites) would not appreciate or >> consent to being listed intermingled with overtly adult content sites... I >> want CF to have a professional and corporate reputation. I don't include >> hooter's girls in my family portrait (though there was the year I wore a >> duck suit) and I don't wish for my good customers to have a reason to >> question my wisdom in posting their links. Plus grouping all the adults >> sites together allows us to carefully scrutinize them so we can be properly >> outraged. Can't we evangelize without offending? >> >> -Mark >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mik Muller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 12:22 PM >> To: CF-Talk >> Subject: Re: GotCFM.com - Need Opinion on Whether to Approve a Site >> >> Define "legal" porn, please. Will you have a separate section for that? :-Q >> >> Mik >> >> >> At 11:57 AM 3/5/2007, Rey Bango wrote: >>> Hi Janet, >>> >>> It has to be a site that runs CF in some way but I've reserved the >>> right to not list, or remove, a site if it has no redeeming value to >>> the CF community. I mentioned in a previous post that I'm very lenient >>> but some things just won't get posted. This includes: >>> >>> * Bogus websites >>> * Spam >>> * Sites that contain any type of inappropriate content such as racism, >>> hate-groups, illegal porn and that sort of stuff >>> * Link bait >>> >>> So I'm going to continue to be flexible in what gets submitted but if I >>> see a site, for example, that has 50 .Net pages and 1 CF page, that >>> site won't get added. >>> >>> Rey... >>> >>> Janet MacKay wrote: >>>> Rey, >>>> >>>> I confess I haven't read anything about gotCFM.com (other than this >> thread). >>>> So my question is what are the requirements for sites listed on >> gotCFM.com? Does a site only have to run CF (whether they have _one_ cfm >> page or a thousand) or does the site have to contain an _application_ that >> is powered (in whole or in part) by CF? Or none of the above ..? >>>> Janet >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:271610 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
