Supersexyheroines?? Superheroinefilms??

five_red wrote: All of the JonX related sites, supersexyheroines, ultrasexyheroines, superheroinehq, etc. are all either way overdue for updates, or MIA. It might be tempting to explain this as recent personal problems -- we all know (and I hope are respectful) of cases when members of the community have been hit by unexpected health or family problems that have seen them take time out from online activities -- yet these sites started to run into problems a long while back. I think it's just a case of trying to do too many things all at once. Too much enthusiasm!

I don't want to criticise JonX, because I'm sure he didn't go into any of these ventures with the intention of getting rich. It looks like he has merely fallen foul of the catch 22 which plagues communities like our own: we can't have professional quality content unless somebody pays, but there aren't enough paying souls to fund someone to make professional content full time. So we end up with hobbyists (as JonX describes himself) trying to find ways of funding the hobby. In a way I applaud these people: they get off their backsides, book the models, hire the studios, and create the web sites which really give a boost to our community. The problems is real life has a habit of getting in the way, and hobbies are always the first casualty of any hiccup in someone's personal life. This wouldn't be a problem, if it wasn't for the paying customers. People will only cut you so much slack, particularly if several updates are missed without even so much as a 140 character tweet of explanation.

I've thought for a long time we (as a community) need to get a little inventive with the way we fund these professional productions. Random's idea of charging per content package works well for the paying punter, but I'm sure there's a large element of risk for Random personally(?), which I think is unfair.

I have some ideas on how we, as a community, might work together to create better ways of funding professional quality content, but none of them are perfect, so I'll save them for a future message perhaps. But I would like to hear what others have to say. Do you think the pay site model is a good one, given the size of our community? Is Random's per-package model better, is it fair for both consumer and producer? Are there even better ways we could share the burden of funding professional content in a sustainable way?