Interesting, these comments about newbies.
First off, why do we need them?
Second, why should they be coddled and cuddled? This is a business. I don't seem to recall in 99 that anyone gave me free content, free hosting, pre-made galleries, reward points, instant payouts, payouts attached to a debit card, free trips or badges to Internext, or anything else along those lines.
Corvett mentioned the story of what Kimmy used to do before the internet, and while I'm not going into a long retelling of it, let's just suffice it to say that it was another method of alternative marketing, very much like door to door sales. In the beginning when the industry and the players were new, it was in everyone's best interest to "hire 'em in masses, teach 'em in classes, and kick 'em in the asses" while we were a growing and new sort of deal.
Once we got to the point that we were running ads for national distribution on the inside back covers of magazines like Elle and Vogue, we didn't need the bodies any more to make money. They became a liability, an oversaturation of the market that caused diminishing returns for everyone's ROI.
I have nothing against newbies personally, as a matter of fact, I'm actually working with 3 different ones who might actually make it for a year, I'm just sitting here trying to figure out when the Porn Unification Plan went back into action.
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