I concur w/ Gallant Pig, who agrees w/ belboz.

Our new theme song to get the ball rollin' on this premium membership thing could be the same song that ABC shoved down our throats during the NBA playoffs.

so what does paypal due to all the ebayers selling porn?
I'm pretty sure I used paypal for the porn <s>I</s> my friend got off ebay that one time

unless you go to the adult section of ebay

since when? ebay used to have an entire adult category that required multiple logins to get to, even if you had the cookie enabled for auto login you had to login at least one more time manually to get to it

They still do.

Yes, Ebay still has the "Mature Audiences" section, and any items listed there can't have Paypal offered as a payment method (well, they can't state it in the listing at least, but most sellers will still accept Paypal "under the table" for mature auctions)

Same thing happened over at SA. Simply because there is some adult content on the forum is apparently reason enough to freeze the account. Fortunately the site owner said there were no funds in it at the time, and they have since moved to a new credit card processor while telling Paypal to go F themselves.

I highly recommend Authorize.Net. I've used them many times designing e-commerce sites and the experience has always been good. My clients ususally just go to their bank and get a merchant account. The bank then signs them up for Authorize.Net (the payment gateway) and they are linked for you by the bank. IIRC, Authorize.Net charges around 3% per transaction, with a monthly minimum of around $30. The money is deposited directly into your bank account.

PS - I've never used A.Net with vBulletin, but i'm sure its easy. Probably just need to provide vBulletin with your A.Net account number and your transaction key (which you set when you signup with A.Net).

The admin control panel has a field to enter in an Authorize.net login ID. I guess that's all that's needed to send funds.

Couldn't you just move the adult forum and reviews off to a seperate domain? You could call it something like "adultdvdtalk.com"

That was what I was going to ask. Would it be possible to strip the adults ads, forum and review and all links to them from the members only forum to both get paypal to agree and to appease those of us browsing from work as well?

And as joeblow69 said, put the other stuff on a different domain where those interested could still access it.

I checked but that domain seems to have been taken by another company



Paypal has no grey area. Either a site has adult stuff or not. We're square with them now, but I plan to investigate either the costco or authorize options.

Joe was being funny (he is/was a regular contributor to ADT, IIRC). I'm sure he's aware that ADT was started in partial response to Geoff (G!) not having adult content here, by a forum participant/company representative. G!'s decision two years ago to include adult content has been overwhelmingly positive and well received.

As G! said, paypal draws no distinction; contents or links to adult content are viewed as evil. As one of the biggest contributors of adult content to this site, I am absolutely opposed to a so-called "separate but equal" website. I'm willing to bet Adult DVD Empire, one of the biggest financial backers here, would concur with my opinion too. If it's a problem to view a website with ANY adult content on it for your workplace, I suggest you either refrain from breaking their policies or find a more enlightened employer (although, to be fair, you should actually be working at work, not playing on the internet).

In any case, paypal's policy is silly and I'm sure one of its competitors will gladly sign DVDTalk up, something I hope other websites will do to deprive them of any mean old money because of some adult content...

PS: The views above were my own and not an official stance of DVDTalk.

any chance that part of my premium membership package will include the ability to ban 1 user per day??

Ive got my first 3 months already planned out

Fair enough. I view the site only from work (no internet at home, got sick of it years ago), and don't like the review covers and accidently ending up in the adult forum with accidental mouse wheel scrolls and what not, so I'd love to see a separate site.

It's not a policy, I can do whatever I want on my computer at work as I'm just a graduate research assitant. I just share an office with a female, who is somewhat feminist, and thus I don't like that stuff popping up.

But I agree that it would probably kill advertising, and that not enough people would sign up for premium accounts (as the poll a while back showed) to make up the difference.

Dvdtalkadult.com is available.

I just don't see you being able to get your money's worth though.

Not anymore. I'll sell it for one million dollars.

make that 3 months and 1 day!

As well as:

matureDVDtalk.com
DVDtalkMature.com
GeoffsPornKingdom.com
GeoffsPornReviews.com
AdultKleinman.com

Off topic: I want to meet that guy who makes those stupid smiley animations... then slap him.

Why? I think you are crazy.

I want to have sex with him.

Hopefully, he goes that way. If not he'll probably end up shooting me.

geoffsgooeylovehut.com
dvdtalkassplay.com
dvdcock.com
dvdtalkpeeinbutt.com

This is fun!