Everyone, lighten up.. I get the whole “oh lord it’s sex!” thing you got going around but really, give it a rest.. if you don’t like the article skip it! TechCrunch or Mike alike in no way attempt to make you read this.. if you feel it’s obtrusive, offensive or anything else that would perhaps even in the slightest kick you against the shins move on to the next article!

I agree with the very first post made, it’s a big big business but I couldn’t do it.. I respect Mike’s decision to review this although I perhaps would’ve waited a little longer till there was more than just a landing page.

I looked into this and because of the theocratic porn laws you’d have to do a contract with each submitter if you want to charge cash for it. However, someone in another country could easily do this.

I’d delete your comment but it won’t do any good. The news is out. My plan is foiled. Two years down the drain.

“porn messes women up””

…or maybe messed up women go into porn.

Being in porn makes your penis grow huge.

Does playing basketball make you tall or do tall people play basketball?

Causality is a bitch.

and then he says “The guy who helps me with SEO says”

so the former is clearly a load of bull…

If you wrote more quality articles instead of coving a blank homepage, then their would be no reason for anyone to trash you. The arguments made in 38/39 were legitimate as you know. It is not true that you (with a ‘trusted’ site) who writes about such content will get labeled with the adult badge. You should fire your seo guy as he clearly does not know what he is talking about, but this is just an excuse and we both know it.

It is true that you have had well over 100K hits from google for that pornotube article alone… That said, it’s a big number and some sites dont get that in a year, and when you write about a new site that is likely to get a lot of coverage and you do it with your PR8 page you KNOW you will outrank that site and most others for a long time. Thus you will steal its traffic and thunder. Good for business every time.

It’s a smart move for your business model to write articles that will be ahead of the curve and steal the thunder of what’s happening, it’s logical for you to do it, you would appear more honest if you just came out and said, yea so what, some articles I write will help the site…

No conspiracy here just a little logic!

I’m leaving your comments up but taking out the link. Your site is known for low level fraud (fake advertisers) and you’re playing on my trademark. If you want to trash me you should do it anonymously. I’m likely to delete your entire comment in the future if it’s under that name.

Greeks performed in public nude, and had nude bathhouses (as did the Romans). Most of the big civilizations had nude arts, especially statutes, in erotic or explicitly sexual poses. Every big and small civilization has pictures of couples engaged in sexual acts.

Really, compared to our predecessors, we’re prudes. We hide nudity and sex, leaving it for dark rooms… (of course, given the obesity problem in America, that’s actually a good thing; I don’t want to see a fat guy/chick naked).

sex.so.evil

Easy was in the 90s

The only real way to make this work financially is to offer a premium subscription for $$$, and I’d like to see how effective Pornotube is at converting those.

I have a suggestion. It seems that your audience can have a mixed view of what is newsworthy. I for one like to hear any details of Web technology you care to report, but maybe you should create a “safe zone” for posts that get the front page. Any articles which may be questionable could be included under a link called “TC Plus” for example.

Weather clone vs ScrewTube -

- Which is the most uselless ; Lets begin the voting - RB

Ah, I just love real-time satire.

Crap like this and the blatant go2web20/Orli Yakuel/webtech back scratching going on, as they say; I’m outta here..

Sorry Michael ..

http://www.google.co.uk/search.....0&sa=N

Self interest speaks volumes..