Good news and bad news re BF

[WinterGreenWolf]

14 hours ago, Thunder-Bay-Syd said:




Yes, this. I had hoped they would at least try to help the community move forward but in the end they were busily banning anyone who posted links to other forums and groups. It was sad to see and completely unnecessary. There are always options but when its all about the money the effort just won't get made.

 

11 hours ago, heavyhorse said:




That's the totality of it.  It was never about anything but the money, one of about 20 pron/fetish sites under the same umbrella.  If it accidentally served as a high-visibility entry point for new people to meet and learn from others, that was an accidental outcome.  When  1) worldwide legislation and  2) the world financial system, crimped the business model, it was Buh-Bye..... 

You both pretty much hit the nail on the head here. Though I will point a couple things out with Heavy's post..




From my experience in the very early days of BF, it was more Zoo and less fetish, that is until the mods and staff realized they had a serious cash-cow (no pun intended... [img]<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/tongue.png[/img]/emoticons/[email protected] 2x" title=":P" width="20" /> ). Then IMO it all went down hill.. Now, not only legislation, but ultimately things BitTorrent, other 'off key' sites that were uploading the same videos, and the myriad of other fetish sites that the 'seekers' could hop to when bored didn't help either.




Even on a 'fetish' level, all-in-all the amount of 'animal interest' people, though a very, VERY rough estimate 5% - 10% of the total populous, is still damn small.  So, unless you run things -juuust- right, or push the right thing at the right time: it's game over.




I did discover 'Zooskool' is still kicking, how well? I'm not sure. I found them on Tor when looking to see if there were any other Zoo forums / communities to report. You have to be careful there as well: a lot of the 'Torsites' for fetishes are completely open, including Rape and Pedophilia.




EDIT: It's also worth the note that the few 'beastie' sites I found on Tor, take BTC (Bitcoin) as payment: so they're already kind of playing with financial fire here. They also don't even have payment gates, you email them telling them you are interested, give them a BTC address to watch for a transaction from, then send to their BTC.




All really, really sketchy.