The life of a porn addicted housewife.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Porn Forums - What An Odd Hobby!
How did I, a seemingly normal woman by all accounts, get so wrapped up in porn forums?
Years ago I stumbled across a porn forum and joined it as a lark. Now I am an administrator for one of the top rated (for quality not size) porn forums in the world.
How did a lark evolve into a full time hobby?
When I first started posting on porn forums a 500kb file was seen as huge. That should give you an idea of how long ago it was! When people were dealing with 14.4k and 28.8k forums, any video clip at all was treasured. The quality of the videos was crap at best, yet we loved them anyway. Today the videos are completely different. I regularly post full videos that are 1.3 gigabytes in size and it only takes me a few hours to upload them. Normal scenes average about 350MB each. The quality of some of the videos is comparable to DVDs. The thought of a 500K file is laughable.
Storage has always been an issue. We have gone through major highs and major lows when it comes to finding somewhere to store the files. We have had to cut the files into tiny little pieces and then after downloading they have to be put all back together. We have had to rename file extensions. We have had to use cloaking programs to totally hide what a file is. We have had to spilt files up and put the pieces on multiple hosts. Now and then we would find the odd host that would allow full files. Today we have several different options. Rapidshare allows 100MB files, so splitting is easy. Filecloud allows any size file at all. Several other hosts allow files that are 500MB-1gigabyte.
We have dealt with link thieves by the hundreds. Nothing kills a file faster than a link thief! Luckily some of the new storage sites are more accommodating to widespread link posting.
I have met many people through porn forums. In fact there are some of them that I have known since the very beginning. A few come and go and you never know where or when you will see them pop up. A few I am pretty close with. When you talk to someone on IRC almost daily for about 8 years there really isn’t that much you don’t know about them. There are good guys and there are asses just like in “real life.” Some you look forward to seeing post, and others you just cringe when you see their name.
Over the years I have had a great time posting. I am lucky that I have a husband who accepts what I do when it comes to posting porn. Of course he benefits from it because I always keep his porn supply at a maximum.
I used to take posting very seriously. I wanted to get as many replies as possible. The goal was to get more replies than anyone else. I now realize how silly that is. I just post my movies and if people like them, then good. If not, oh well. With the storage we use today I can see exactly how many people download my files. That gives me a general idea of what people want to see. While sure, comments are nice, I no longer feel the need to get more than anyone else. This is a hobby and I treat it as such.
Always remember this, “It’s just porn!” Remember that and you will have much more fun posting in the long run.
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Years ago I stumbled across a porn forum and joined it as a lark. Now I am an administrator for one of the top rated (for quality not size) porn forums in the world.
How did a lark evolve into a full time hobby?
When I first started posting on porn forums a 500kb file was seen as huge. That should give you an idea of how long ago it was! When people were dealing with 14.4k and 28.8k forums, any video clip at all was treasured. The quality of the videos was crap at best, yet we loved them anyway. Today the videos are completely different. I regularly post full videos that are 1.3 gigabytes in size and it only takes me a few hours to upload them. Normal scenes average about 350MB each. The quality of some of the videos is comparable to DVDs. The thought of a 500K file is laughable.
Storage has always been an issue. We have gone through major highs and major lows when it comes to finding somewhere to store the files. We have had to cut the files into tiny little pieces and then after downloading they have to be put all back together. We have had to rename file extensions. We have had to use cloaking programs to totally hide what a file is. We have had to spilt files up and put the pieces on multiple hosts. Now and then we would find the odd host that would allow full files. Today we have several different options. Rapidshare allows 100MB files, so splitting is easy. Filecloud allows any size file at all. Several other hosts allow files that are 500MB-1gigabyte.
We have dealt with link thieves by the hundreds. Nothing kills a file faster than a link thief! Luckily some of the new storage sites are more accommodating to widespread link posting.
I have met many people through porn forums. In fact there are some of them that I have known since the very beginning. A few come and go and you never know where or when you will see them pop up. A few I am pretty close with. When you talk to someone on IRC almost daily for about 8 years there really isn’t that much you don’t know about them. There are good guys and there are asses just like in “real life.” Some you look forward to seeing post, and others you just cringe when you see their name.
Over the years I have had a great time posting. I am lucky that I have a husband who accepts what I do when it comes to posting porn. Of course he benefits from it because I always keep his porn supply at a maximum.
I used to take posting very seriously. I wanted to get as many replies as possible. The goal was to get more replies than anyone else. I now realize how silly that is. I just post my movies and if people like them, then good. If not, oh well. With the storage we use today I can see exactly how many people download my files. That gives me a general idea of what people want to see. While sure, comments are nice, I no longer feel the need to get more than anyone else. This is a hobby and I treat it as such.
Always remember this, “It’s just porn!” Remember that and you will have much more fun posting in the long run.
