Quote:
Originally Posted by daveduchovny
Have patience and the content will come to you!
I was essentially a lurker for almost 8 years. But I visit the site almost every day. I made maybe half a dozen posts in my first 6 years - over that kind of timescale at some point you're going to stumble over something on the internet which you know in your gut needs to be shared on OCC! And if you're visiting the site every day, reading the threads of the stuff you like best, and haven't seen it before, chances are it's new content.
But the real trick is to get a specialism or a niche. Pedro has the beach, Klondike has the nude runs, Dalquaz has the Dare to Bare teens (all original content of course), other people make a living scouring Youtube or Dailymotion or Picasweb or Rajce or a million other image and video sites on the internet for new content. Some members, I'm sure, just post pictures from the links other members post in OCC's Free Links section! That's fine, both the links and the images have value - some people like context and background, others just want to see the boobies.
I'm into Spencer Tunick, as a multiple-time participant so I usually know what is happening in advance and where to find the behind the scenes pictures before anyone else. I've posted a bit of content through that. But that kind of inside knowledge is hard to come by (and sometimes you feel a little bit duplicitous posting it). Now I'm the Winter Beach guy. I saw a series of pictures posted by someone else on OCC, of friends bathing naked. I thought they were fantastic, I didn't just save them and knock one out, I went to the original source to try and learn more about them, discovered vk.com, all the Winter Beach stuff and loads of other content that really ought to be posted here too! That's kept me busy over the last year and garnered me 5000 thanks.
All it takes is a bit of enthusiasm for a specific type of content, a little bit of effort and research and if you find a source no-one else is systematically mining, stake your claim and Be The Guy. But you also need patience, it might take you 8 years until you find it...
|
I just looked back through this thread which has grown quite a bit. What piqued me the most is this comment above which I wholeheartedly agree with. "The real trick (for a lurker wishing to become a poster) is to get a specialism or a niche". This is how I feel also. Its that way in life also. But really, for a lurker to become a useful poster, find a niche. You 'niche" posters (Of which I guess I am one also when it comes to Fremont, campus stuff) are worth your weight in gold. If all you are into is sexy ladies, maybe finding a "niche" will be a bit of a problem. But if its public nudity you like, or ENF, whole worlds can open up to you if you narrow your focus a little and get to know the search terms that are going to get you niche content. And also remember that to veteran collectors like myself, quality and freshness trump quantity every time. You needn't find a ton of stuff - just one fresh post every couple of months will do. the most recent example that comes to mind is the new Baker 13 run pics put up recently in the campus run thread. Thats a gold mine to me.
Niche posters have definitely made their mark here at OCC. Maybe the "modern era" of niche posting started for me around the time that 69|69 and Pennywiseguy started posting Russian event festival pics. We have numerous guys here now to thank for posting original and niche pics - dedicated collectors who, like daveduchovny, are very familiar with certain events.
I used to collect coins, and at the time, it seemed that no one could possibly make a lot of money doing this. The only way to do it was to narrow your focus and specialize in one area and collect only in that area. Then and only then could you acquire the necessary skill to buy and sell effectively. Well, its sort of the same thing here.
OCC is incomprehesively vast to a newcomer, but so is the net overall and the volume of new pics going up everyday. Fresh event pics are relatively easy to mine once you get to know when and where they take place. If the pics have the year "2012" attached and were taken in Nov, chances are they are fresh here.
Fremont threads have, for example, been getting smaller the last couple of years. This means that all a lurker has to do to make his mark at OCC in my mind is to spend an evening or two in late June cruising the net for the latest Fremont pics. In 2012, it only seemed like a small handful of members were actively searching for pics. We could have used more surfers..
Anyway, but thats just one small example. I surf a lot less than I used to, and so when I come here more and more I look to the output of the niche surfers in the E&V and ENF forums. Become one of those guys and I'll be eternally "thanks" - full..
Klondike