do you have many friends at college loun or are you the kid that always sits alone in the lunch room and that the other students just don't 'get'?
introducing yourself "Hi I'm Loun and I make $x for doing nothing!" doesn't win anyone's respect, certainly not mine. And most of us have already been on the huge ego/success trip you are on, several times in this industry in the last several years. We've all also had lots of failures, usually following successes, and that ego gets pretty damn deflated when the bubble bursts - and i can assure you, it will. The only thing that matters is do you have the ethic and attitude to put your head down and your ass up and WORK when its needed to meet the responsibilities you have acquired along the way, or will you spend the rest of your life hearing 'ding, fries are done'? (see oprano pearls, author mike fold?)
respect is earned, not given
hang around, get involved in the discussions, and stop carrying on like you have found out a secret that the rest of us don't know and maybe someone would listen long enough to hear the valuable info you have.
you have web sites, you have domains, you have traffic
big deal.
ask around, a couple of us have dabbled in the internet too
