I can agree with most of what Klondike says. Posters generally are posting for the benefit of others. But in my case the 'views' and 'thanks' are a bit more critical. I don't mean to insinuate that I'm special. Heck, my post don't even come close to the numbers of Klondike, Pedro, and some of the other regular posters. I don't post in what I call 'mainstream' threads(upskirts, beach, flash, candid, etc.) which have a huge following. Instead I post primarily 'biker' related stuff. Yes, I have other stuff, old girlfriends, many of who were dancers that I plan to post in one of the hardcore groups someday. But I wanted to keep it all grouped by topic. And I had hoped to generate interest and postings from other bikers. There's a lot of cameras at these events. Yes, I could have busted up the pics, posting some in the 'candid' and some in the 'flash' threads and received more views and thanks. In fact, many people are posting 'flash' pics from motorcycle events in those threads, probably for better exposure, when I wish they'd contribute to the 'biker' thread.
What makes the 'views' and 'thanks' so critical for me is the effort. I know, poor, poor Charlie. No, seriously. When I started posting here I started posting pics from scans from basically 3 Harley events before there was 'digital' and was working my way up, I think I got to maybe 2005 or 2006. I recently decided to back up and do a few 'black' biker events for variety, starting with the Black Bike Week in 1997. I had originally scanned them at 800x600, 150dpi. That was 'the size' back then. In preparation I re-scanned, from negatives, about 400 pics at 1200dpi for starters. When I was posting the 'Harley' stuff I was getting 20-30 thanks on each post. Since I started the 'Black Bike Week' post(currently 12 post) the number of 'views' and 'thanks' has dropped significantly. As of this moment no post has generated more than 13 'thanks' and none of the last 8 post has generated more than a half dozen 'thanks'. Is it the quality of the scans? Is it a lack of interest in 'black' events? Is it the lack of tits(black events are all about the butts)? I'm not really sure. But regardless, the time and effort to clean the decade old negatives and scan them is wasted if people aren't appreciating them. It's a whole lot easier to just post the 'Harley' events, especially the 'digital' ones. I'll continue with that 'event' until I finish the ones that I've re-scanned but I won't re-scan any more unless I see a change in interest, although I might post some 'digital' ones to see if the scan quality was the issue, which I don't expect to be the case.
As for Barmixer's comments, I agree whole-heartedly. I'm 65 now and don't really collect porn anymore. But occasionally I see a special pic here and there. If it's special enough to dl to my computer, I owe it to the poster to 'Thank' him/her.
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