I tried!

[larkster]

do you understand your telling me YOUR OPINION...its like one day you realized you were gay...i was 99.9 percent sure i ONLY like loved enjoyed was turned on by WOMEN and then i did gay porn on Broke Straight Boys for the first time and realized without a doubt im 100 percent straight...respect that dont over analyze it...your picking apart well since jimmy responded this way it means this and blah blah blah just stop your basically calling me a liar about MYSELF...it be like you meeting me at a gay pride event telling me how one day you realized you ONLY like men strictly realized thats the only sexual partner you could enjoy and i said no i think your a 4 on my scale so you must like girls 4/10 ratio so ther for your not gay your bi...its crazy absolutley crazy

Jimmy Man, listen to yourself. You're getting pretty bent out of shape over a rather innocuous comment. I already said I don't think anybody is a 10 or a one on the scale. So, to some degree we are ALL bi-sexual. My opinion backed by a lot of scientific research. You don't have to act out of whatever degree of bi-sexuality is there. I haven't had sex with a woman in years. But that it lies dormant doesn't mean it ain't there. And it may be the reason you can tolerate having sex with guys on this site. So What!

 

[Ms. Kianna]

the worst part about it is ive still held my tounge and said nothing wrong or disrespectful but you just see tequila crying because i didnt expect him to TELL me about MYSELF after i took alot of time to answer what seemed like a nice respectful member (like most on this forum) questions and because i didnt feel like responding to his rude disrespectful comments and NOW IM THE BAD GUY....FUCK THAT i did nothing wrong im a grown man i can speak for my self...Rob Ryder is one of my best friends one of the nicest guys i know wher at an event as we speak and hes even said its REDICULOUS

I said that I was surprised that Mark or Chuck did not step in, when this exchange got ugly. That is not saying you are a bad guy.

Mark and Chuck have banned people on the forum for being blatantly disrespectful to others, so it has shocked me, that with all the constant bitching and complaining about the same things, and asking the same questions over and over, no matter how many times that you have answered them, and the exchanges getting more and more heated, that Mark or Chuck have said nothing. That is really surprising to me.

There are some of us, that without putting any blame on anyone, are just trying to get it to stop. There is no good coming from it, there seems to be no solution or right answer for those members, so everything that is taking place is just hurtful. Call me Switzerland, but Switzerland has a heart.

 

[another1]

There are some of us, that without putting any blame on anyone, are just trying to get it to stop. There is no good coming from it, there seems to be no solution or right answer for those members, so everything that is taking place is just hurtful. Call me Switzerland, but Switzerland has a heart.

please make this stop.
this is about porn, not the oil rights to texas.
daddy always said, if it will not be important to you in the day after tomorrow, then don't fight over it today.
can't we all just get along?

 

[JLipps4u]

Jimmy,

You have never been one of my favorites, but I like you anyway. I like you because I have seen you in the Pride events and seen how you are off camera, and I like it. I don’t expect you to be anything but yourself in the actual shoots. I think you have certainly become a better performer over the months and I appreciate that you do actually try to be a better performer. You read posts about your performances and you try to improve. What more can anyone ask? Perhaps, when you read something that begins to get personal, you should ignore it, instead of trying to defend yourself. Not that you don’t have a right to, it’s just that, well, you can’t defend yourself against ignorance. Just let it go, you prove yourself the better man just by ignoring those who are judgemental. There is a saying, “ tis better to be thought a fool, than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.” I appreciate that you read the posts, but when they become personal and foolish, don’t respond to them. It only feeds the fire. If you want to put the flames out, ignore it, and your detractors will tire and realize it is pointless. Those who sit here on the forum to pass judgement will find someone else, or something else to judge soon enough.

Life is a journey and those who learn to enjoy the journey, end up in a much better place, than those who waste the journey by focusing and complaining about the small stuff. You seem to me, someone who is on the right track enjoying the journey, don’t let others (who don’t pay your way in life) keep you from enjoying that journey. IN the end, you can look back and realize what a great ride you had! others won’t be that fortunate!

 

[slimvintage]

The issue here may in the end be a retail one rather than a question of personalities. This site is one of several belonging to one of those famous Small Businesses that we hear about endlessly from our political leaders, in this case one that caters to its consumers in a variety of ways, among them this playpen, called the forum, the board, whatever, set up partly as a market research tool and partly as a sort of social network. The polemic that's grown up around Jimmy is a function of this since the site specifically invites the customers to let management know how they feel about the product. As an extraneous and random outcome to this expression of opinions, the forum typically takes sides when there are complaints about a model.

A couple of times in the past the firm itself has got in to tell the clientele where to get off. I don't mean monitoring and chastising the rule breakers, I mean scolding, entering the fray. Years ago Tyler felt uneasy about a weirdo who was obsessed by him and posted his resignation from the forum because of that. The members got scolded for being creepy on that occasion.

But I can't remember when a model who's aroused really strong emotions for and against has actually been able to, or in any case chosen to, get in and confront in post after post the customers who actively don't like his product. It's weird and sort of wonderful. As MsK has said, you actually wonder why it's been allowed to on so long. Maybe it's good for business.

 

[lesit78]

I am asking for a volunteer to offer up a realistic comparison. Someone who is a male Broke Straight Boys member, who is 100% gay and has never had sex with a woman before and who has never had a desire, to offer up to having sex with women on camera in front of a crew and to post the footage onto a straight porn website. One that has a forum, where the members publicly critique the scenes and state their opinions.

That is what it is probably like for Jimmy to be a Broke Straight Boys model, but from the opposite end of the spectrum.

Jimmy has tried everything except bottoming and rimming. He has sucked cock, and he has kissed. If you go back and watch the scene where he has kissed, and sucked cock, you can't miss that it is very uncomfortable for him even though he made the most out of it and kept an open mind, and he tried his best. You can tell just from his body language and his facial expressions that he was having a really hard time with it BUT HE KEPT HIS SENSE OF HUMOR, and he never said anything bad about it.

If anyone of you gay men can volunteer to try the same thing with a beautiful woman, including performing oral sex on her and full on fucking her and showing passion and lust while you're doing it, please come back and report back to us what kind of an experience it was for you. Would you love it, would your performance make it look good enough to eat like most straight guys do when they're having sex with women in straight porn? I doubt it.

If you then had to read the forum comments for days...weeks...and months on end where every day people were coming out in droves and saying very mean and insulting things about you while all the other guys who are actually straight are being lauded and praised, would you not at some point defend yourself?

Also, please note that not one time has anyone from Broke Straight Boys management nor any one of his co workers/models lifted a finger to defend him publicly except for Colin.

The scope and tone behind some of the things some of you have said about and to Jimmy goes way beyond stating your opinion as to what you don't like about his performances. Some of you have been mean, cruel, and it's almost as if some of you are trying to seek revenge against him for wrongs that may have been done to you years ago and it seems as if Jimmy is your punching bag.

I think possibly some of you feel strength in numbers, and that it's somehow ok to jump on the pile and say horrible things about Jimmy because he's one guy against many of you. If that's not bullying, I don't know what is.

Jimmy, being a man, feels no fear and defends himself all the while being totally respectful and decent to every one of you who have said downright nasty things about him. He has reached out to nearly everyone who has criticized him, thanked you for your feedback, and he has conceded that he is making changes and working hard on improving his performances. And then you retaliate against him for daring to "talk back to a paying member" as if you're the queen of Sheba or something, because you pay your monthly membership fee it's somehow ok to treat others like dirt and say destructive, mean spirited things about them.

In my opinion Jimmy has handled his criticisms and flat out mudslinging fests with class and he has never once bowed down to the level his "critics" (using a much nicer word than I would like to) have stooped to. Yes he has defended himself against idiocy in my opinion, but he never once was disrespectful nor did he stoop to the tactics hurled at him. All Jimmy has ever done was try to do his best, he has listened to his feedbacks whether positive or negative, and he has done so with an open mind and thanked EVERYONE for their feedback whether positive or negative and he has taken that back with him and made improvements in his performances.

I dare say if any one of you who have hurled nasty comments at or about Jimmy were to meet up with him in person, you wouldn't DARE tell him these things to his face if it was just you and him. For one, I'm pretty sure that Jimmy would be the first one to reach out his hand to you in friendship and want to shake your hand. For two, if you did start slamming him to his face he would probably want to sit down and talk about it as friends (or at least as men) rather than exchanging nasty comments back and forth. Some of you are just being downright b****y.

I really get the sense that Jimmy is a decent, kind hearted, genuinely nice guy who is a lot of fun and he is a funny guy! When he's unscripted, he's hilarious. Come on people, some of the comments he has made in his scenes were funny. He wasn't trying to be a jerk, he wasn't trying to be homophobic or arrogant in any way shape or form but instead he was joking around and just being himself. I think that he makes the most controversial comments (i.e. I'll do the work, you just do your job) when he's about to undertake a job he really doesn't like very much and is feeling uncomfortable and stressed out himself (i.e. having sex with another man which for many of you would = having sex with a woman).

And Jason yes, I do remember the comments that were made about Mike R back in the day, Dustin, and CJ. But in no way did it even come close to the way people have slammed Jimmy into the ground on a daily and constant basis. I was among those who was critical of Mike R, and I was one of the loudest complainers because I was getting downright tired of the frequency of scenes that he was in. And yes, I was and still am to this day very remorseful for the mean things that I said about him, and I can only hope that he wasn't hurt by any of them because Mike R was a very nice but troubled guy who was probably in deep trouble emotionally, the extent to which none of us will ever know most likely. Dustin was liked by many, but towards the end I think people were just getting turned off by his weight gain and obvious loss of hair that was covered up with a hat. CJ just acted completely bored and as if he'd rather be watching paint dry even while he was getting plowed, he just seemed so laid back and bored by the whole thing that if memory serves, after awhile people complained about him but I don't remember any of it coming close to the extent a few people hurl things against Jimmy.

I guess this is a situation where the best way to defy ignorance is to ignore it altogether because you will never win against a bunch of people who appear to be out to settle a score.

 

[Ms. Kianna]

I can only think of one thing to change Abe. Scorpio and Rob have also defended Jimmy.

 

[lesit78]

I can only think of one thing to change Abe. Scorpio and Rob have also defended Jimmy.

I would never argue against your wisdom and memory Ms. K, if Rob and Scorpio have defended Jimmy then I am sorry I didn't include them and I stand corrected. Thank you for correcting me on that Ms. K.

And thank you both Rob and Scorpio!!!!!

 

[larkster]

I don't know what Jimmy thinks about me. When I point out that someone calling him bisexual isn't that big a deal, and that by some definitions we are all bisexual to some degree, he said I was as bad as Tequila. This seems to be the seminal "insult" that triggered his rage against Tequila. Maybe if someone called him a faggot, he might have a case. I have never said anything to Jimmy that I considered rude. While I have critiqued his performances less than favorably, I have also offered him solicited advice on how to improve his performance and I would like to add so have most of the members, even his fans. I have come to the conclusion that Jimmy has set his agenda and is willing to be gay-for-pay if the price is right. These conclusions are from his comments and are well documented. Obviously he puts a high price on certain behaviors and that is his right. But, he is on a site that is equivalent to yelling at a stripper to "take it off." That yelling doesn't usually stop till she does. Jimmy has said he can't get into sex with guys. I believe him. But the question arises, why is still on the site? He says he is having fun. Okay! So why does he feel used and abused. Again, documented in his own comments. There are easier ways to make money than doing things you find repulsive ( this should be a little insulting to the members, I would think.) But personally, it doesn't bother me. It's not going to be a credit on his future resume, unless he decides to make a career out of porn. By the way, straight porn doesn't pay as much for guys and they don't get the adulation, but I think Jimmy has the looks and equipment to make some money. So...I get Jimmy now. It's about the money, and the less gay sex he has to do for it, the better. No amount of advice is going to change that. But, as I said on another thread, this is show biz and you take your lumps and get a thick skin. Ask Britney Spears or Micheal Jackson...whoops not MJ. So, if something I have said has caused you to think I've been unfair to Jimmy, I apologize. Most of my comment over several threads, believe it or not, was to make Jimmy's stay here longer.

 

[tampa24]

tampa come on man you know me well enough by now to know i can handle negative comments suggestions anything but i try to respond to everyone and anyone who posts so that they feel envolved...i just didnt realize how sensative everyone throwing the stones was in that glass house...its like NEWS FLASH A Broke Straight Boys MODEL HAS OFFICIALLY STOOD UP FOR HIMSELF WITHOUT BEING DISRESPECTFUL WE MUST NOT LET THIS HAPPEN WERE PAYING THESE GUYS TO BE FAKE...in all reality the site is called Broke Straight Boys for a reason you signed up for REAL Broke Straight Boys..not broke gay boys not broke bitch boys not broke quite boys...im real and ive been very respectful...

...All Jimmy has ever done was try to do his best, he has listened to his feedbacks whether positive or negative, and he has done so with an open mind and thanked EVERYONE for their feedback whether positive or negative and he has taken that back with him and made improvements in his performances.

Dear Jimmy,

I agree with you that you have every right to stand up for yourself if you feel you are being treated unfairly. Honestly I would not have appreciated being assigned a label about my sexuality by someone who doesn't know me personally. Whether the label was accurate or not, you are the only one who will ever know for sure. I will grant you that it was not the most tasteful of moves on Tequila's part. But then Tequila felt that your response to his comments was also too strong. So here we are.

This whole thing saddens me because I like Tequila, and I don't want to see him leave. I like you and I don't want to see you get called out on anything personal. Comments about your work are one thing. But when judgements are made about you personally, I can understand you getting upset.

I actually thought that if you jumped into the fray on this thread that it would just make things worse. Now I know I was wrong on that point. You are very adept at defending yourself without mgmt having to jump in. I stood up for you when you rushed to defend Bobby...and I told you and everyone else that you had my respect for that. You still have my respect now.

As one poster remarked, "If you're not going to remember this next week then why argue about it today?" I agree with that. All of us who have made more than 10 posts in here has likely had what I would call "Sender's remorse". I can't tell you how many times I wrote something when I was upset or downright angry and then wished and wished that I could take it all back. I beat myself up because I realize after the fact that I was either unkind, too harsh or I overreacted. But as we all know it's very difficult to unring a bell. I just hope that other people realize that we are all human and we make mistakes. And hopefully they'll cut me some slack. Therefore I try not to hold grudges against people for certain posts. They too probably would have responded in a more balanced way if they had had more time to think it through. And if I hope to get that consideration from others then I have to be willing to give that same consideration to others.

I hope that Tequila will decide to stay. Because he contributes alot in here and is generally well liked by all. I doubt that anybody would think less of him if he changed his mind. As for you Jimmy you deserve the right to defend yourself if you feel someone is piling on too strongly. Obviously you should continue to treat members respectfully also. Not because it's your duty to kiss their behinds. Not at all. It's just the right thing to do to...period.

As I shared in some of Abe's edited post above, I would make the point again Jimmy that you have handled yourself better overall when responding to criticisms than I likely would have when I was your age. I give you props for that.

 

[lesit78]

Dear Jimmy,

I agree with you that you have every right to stand up for yourself if you feel you are being treated unfairly. Honestly I would not have appreciated being assigned a label about my sexuality by someone who doesn't know me personally. Whether the label was accurate or not, you are the only one who will ever know for sure. I will grant you that it was not the most tasteful of moves on Tequila's part. But then Tequila felt that your response to his comments was also too strong. So here we are.

This whole thing saddens me because I like Tequila, and I don't want to see him leave. I like you and I don't want to see you get called out on anything personal. Comments about your work are one thing. But when judgements are made about you personally, I can understand you getting upset.

I actually thought that if you jumped into the fray on this thread that it would just make things worse. Now I know I was wrong on that point. You are very adept at defending yourself without mgmt having to jump in. I stood up for you when you rushed to defend Bobby...and I told you and everyone else that you had my respect for that. You still have my respect now.

As one poster remarked, "If you're not going to remember this next week then why argue about it today?" I agree with that. All of us who have made more than 10 posts in here has likely had what I would call "Sender's remorse". I can't tell you how many times I wrote something when I was upset or downright angry and then wished and wished that I could take it all back. I beat myself up because I realize after the fact that I was either unkind, too harsh or I overreacted. But as we all know it's very difficult to unring a bell. I just hope that other people realize that we are all human and we make mistakes. And hopefully they'll cut me some slack. Therefore I try not to hold grudges against people for certain posts. They too probably would have responded in a more balanced way if they had had more time to think it through. And if I hope to get that consideration from others then I have to be willing to give that same consideration to others.

I hope that Tequila will decide to stay. Because he contributes alot in here and is generally well liked by all. I doubt that anybody would think less of him if he changed his mind. As for you Jimmy you deserve the right to defend yourself if you feel someone is piling on too strongly. Obviously you should continue to treat members respectfully also. Not because it's your duty to kiss their behinds. Not at all. It's just the right thing to do to...period.

As I shared in some of Abe's edited post above, I would make the point again Jimmy that you have handled yourself better overall when responding to criticisms than I likely would have when I was your age. I give you props for that.

Very well said Tampa, what a wonderful and eloquent post and you my friend are an awesome guy. And I could not agree with you more Tampa, I too hope that Tequila decides to stay.

 

[JLipps4u]

Abe,

I sit here LMAO because you are so right! I too have been guilty and suffered the "Sender's remorse" syndrome, and on more than one occasion. And you are also right, that we need to give people the benefit of a doubt, as we would like others to have for us.

 

[slimvintage]

All these end-of-the-run apologies/breast beatings for critiquing an act on the site, stimulated in part by the righteous scoldings that the critics have been getting from the supporters of the act, make me a little uncomfortable.

You post a critique saying why you don't like a model's schtick. You're supposed to do that. We're here, in part, to do that. Depending on how much you don't like the performer's product you use stronger or weaker terms. You also post a critique detailing why you really like someone. That's also part of the raison d'être of us-on-the-forum. The problem arises later, when we start addressing each other instead of management. It's called debate, and debate brings its own set of problems with the inevitable and understandable uppings of the ante and escalations of feelings. It's exacerbated when the object of the criticism and praise gets into the fray. This has never happened before and we're getting to see if we like it or not. You've got the customers on opposing sides of the argument, with the object of the debate having joined his supporters.

One thing is absolutely certain. All this stuff, that's gone on for weeks, is good for Jimmy. And he surely knows it if he's as smart as he seems. People pay huge amounts of money for this kind of stuff: an exhaustive pro and con professional profile put together by a group of highly qualified consultants, all with unbetterable credentials and expertise in the subject. Go figure. If you think that Jimmy's feelings have been hurt by anything that's been said here you really underestimate him. This is the boy who called himself a pornstar. Some of you have been on or off his buddylist depending on how you behaved on the forum. If you said the right thing after having said the wrong thing, you were OK again.

Vicekid is very good at statistical research. He could pore over the "Jimmy Files" and draw some clever conclusions, do a graph, a bunch of percentages. It would probably boil down to you either love him or you hate him. No one should have to apologize for that.

 

[vicekid]

Slim, now why did you have to get me involved. I did do a quickie analysis. But before I share that, perhaps all of you involved in this heated discussion should do what I’m doing now. I’m on vacation. Perhaps this is what needed to relax . Go out and enjoy life. This is my 9th week of vacation this year and with 4 cruises under my belt, it has been a relaxing year. So before I head to Texas lets look at some facts.

To do that we need some history and we need to go back to the beginning. In the beginning God created Broke Straight Boys with David and D & E Productions shooting it and Mark and BluMedia distributing it. It quickly became a hit and won an award within its first year. In the beginning there was also no forum.

About 1 1/2 years later the forum started. I don’t recall it this was David’s or Mark’s idea but it had a simple purpose at first. David wanted feedback so he could improve the site and he was a regular contributor. And he made those changes as he felt were appropriate. He asked for feedback on models and did what he could to accommodate us. The forum also allowed all of us to interact too. This then lead to having models having the ability to use the forum with Tyler and Dustin (may he rest in peace) as two of the first.

The forum went through some difficult times with a couple of members abusing it and leading to them being banned. The PM’s to models was eliminated when one began harassing a model, etc. so that was changed.

We had many debates about models, good, bad, etc. Not much different than now. Tyler Evans had almost as many distractors as attractors and he was #1 in quantity of videos produced. As has been stated many times by many individuals: THIS IS A FANTASY SITE! Nothing more, nothing less. Yet for some, it seems like it is real. I hate to break it to you, BUT IT’S NOT!

The number of individuals using the forum is a small fraction of the total membership. And this information came from both David and Mark.

Now with some history behind us lets look at where this issue is at. Now if we look at 4 threads lets see who is involved: the threads I used for this study are: “I tried”, “Dialing it Back”, “Jimmy & Anthony”, “Jimmy’s Mouth”. Of those 4 threads, as of this writing, we have 220 posts. And of those 220 posts only 40 individuals (18%) responded. “Jimmy & Anthony” had 28 individuals respond out of 77 (36%) followed by “Jimmy’s Mouth” with 24 out of 82 (29%) with “I tried” 14 out of 53. So on the subject of Jimmy less than three dozen individual seem to care out of perhaps several thousand members. At best, it’s underwhelming. And as to liking or disliking Jimmy from this small sample, it’s a mixed bag. Sounds a lot like Tyler Evans or C.J., etc. Management might have other numbers that say one way or another, but that is strictly their business.

I frequently wonder why everyone gets so up In arms when they give their opinion here. Why can’t we give it, respect it and move on? Yes I’ve had my opinion questioned in the past and have been goaded into responding, but I took the better way, I just ignored it and moved on with life. Why keep beating a dead horse.

Jimmy is not the first one to respond with some passion to a post. Our good Mr. Evans did so on a couple of occasions also. But I don’t have the time to find where those post might be.

Perhaps we need to heed the words Rodney King:

“WHY CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?”

As for my views on Jimmy as a model on the Vicekid scale he would be a 3/5. In my opinion I would like to see a model do more. I fully understand that straight models have limits and I respect that. I have no doubt that if I met Jimmy we would get along. He seems to have a good personality. Having said that, I can also say if Jimmy is not interested in doing more, then it is time to move on. David once said it very well, how many times can I film the same model doing the same thing? Be it C.J., Mike Robins (may he rest in peace), Dustin, Jimmy and the list goes on.

A question for all of you. If the site is Broke Straight Boys is to get Broke Straight Boys to engage in gay sex, after how many shoots is the model no longer a Broke Straight Boys but an actor for this site? Interesting thought?

Lets see if we can move on to bigger and better subjects.

Live Long and Prosper,

Vicekid


P.S. Tequila it is my hope that you would re-consider leaving the forum, I enjoy reading your posts. You've said your peace so just move on. I'd say this to anyone thinking of leaving just because of the forum. While I may not post often I do find the time to read and Mike, Slim, Tampa, Abush, Ms. K., Cumrag, Robryder, Jimmy, etc. I enjoy your thinking and responses.

 

[angelone]

I think you're right on, Vicekid. What is really needed is time for things to smooth out and die down. I find that words only makes things worst and that silence may be golden in this instance so recollection may take place and perspective is established as to what is really important in people's lives. I enjoy the interchange but don't enjoy the drama. It reminds me of young adolescents starting out in life, so sensitive and impressionable - so easy to offend and so unforgiving.

 

[lesit78]

Slim, now why did you have to get me involved. I did do a quickie analysis. But before I share that, perhaps all of you involved in this heated discussion should do what I’m doing now. I’m on vacation. Perhaps this is what needed to relax . Go out and enjoy life. This is my 9th week of vacation this year and with 4 cruises under my belt, it has been a relaxing year. So before I head to Texas lets look at some facts.

To do that we need some history and we need to go back to the beginning. In the beginning God created Broke Straight Boys with David and D & E Productions shooting it and Mark and BluMedia distributing it. It quickly became a hit and won an award within its first year. In the beginning there was also no forum.

About 1 1/2 years later the forum started. I don’t recall it this was David’s or Mark’s idea but it had a simple purpose at first. David wanted feedback so he could improve the site and he was a regular contributor. And he made those changes as he felt were appropriate. He asked for feedback on models and did what he could to accommodate us. The forum also allowed all of us to interact too. This then lead to having models having the ability to use the forum with Tyler and Dustin (may he rest in peace) as two of the first.

The forum went through some difficult times with a couple of members abusing it and leading to them being banned. The PM’s to models was eliminated when one began harassing a model, etc. so that was changed.

We had many debates about models, good, bad, etc. Not much different than now. Tyler Evans had almost as many distractors as attractors and he was #1 in quantity of videos produced. As has been stated many times by many individuals: THIS IS A FANTASY SITE! Nothing more, nothing less. Yet for some, it seems like it is real. I hate to break it to you, BUT IT’S NOT!

The number of individuals using the forum is a small fraction of the total membership. And this information came from both David and Mark.

Now with some history behind us lets look at where this issue is at. Now if we look at 4 threads lets see who is involved: the threads I used for this study are: “I tried”, “Dialing it Back”, “Jimmy & Anthony”, “Jimmy’s Mouth”. Of those 4 threads, as of this writing, we have 220 posts. And of those 220 posts only 40 individuals (18%) responded. “Jimmy & Anthony” had 28 individuals respond out of 77 (36%) followed by “Jimmy’s Mouth” with 24 out of 82 (29%) with “I tried” 14 out of 53. So on the subject of Jimmy less than three dozen individual seem to care out of perhaps several thousand members. At best, it’s underwhelming. And as to liking or disliking Jimmy from this small sample, it’s a mixed bag. Sounds a lot like Tyler Evans or C.J., etc. Management might have other numbers that say one way or another, but that is strictly their business.

I frequently wonder why everyone gets so up In arms when they give their opinion here. Why can’t we give it, respect it and move on? Yes I’ve had my opinion questioned in the past and have been goaded into responding, but I took the better way, I just ignored it and moved on with life. Why keep beating a dead horse.

Jimmy is not the first one to respond with some passion to a post. Our good Mr. Evans did so on a couple of occasions also. But I don’t have the time to find where those post might be.

Perhaps we need to heed the words Rodney King:

“WHY CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?”

As for my views on Jimmy as a model on the Vicekid scale he would be a 3/5. In my opinion I would like to see a model do more. I fully understand that straight models have limits and I respect that. I have no doubt that if I met Jimmy we would get along. He seems to have a good personality. Having said that, I can also say if Jimmy is not interested in doing more, then it is time to move on. David once said it very well, how many times can I film the same model doing the same thing? Be it C.J., Mike Robins (may he rest in peace), Dustin, Jimmy and the list goes on.

A question for all of you. If the site is Broke Straight Boys is to get Broke Straight Boys to engage in gay sex, after how many shoots is the model no longer a Broke Straight Boys but an actor for this site? Interesting thought?

Lets see if we can move on to bigger and better subjects.

Live Long and Prosper,

Vicekid


P.S. Tequila it is my hope that you would re-consider leaving the forum, I enjoy reading your posts. You've said your peace so just move on. I'd say this to anyone thinking of leaving just because of the forum. While I may not post often I do find the time to read and Mike, Slim, Tampa, Abush, Ms. K., Cumrag, Robryder, Jimmy, etc. I enjoy your thinking and responses.

Excellent post Vicekid, and I agree with you 100% on everything you stated above. And you also touched on something I was going to mention too but forgot, and that is the fact that out of a member base of thousands of members (I have no idea what the actual member base is but I assume it's in the thousands), only a small fraction actually take the time to post on the forum. I suspect that more members vote on the scenes than post their comments. And yet others actually email BluMedia directly, which of course we have no clue how many do, nor what they say. And finally, the #1 pulse-taking diagnosis of a site's overall health is the membership status. How many are rebilling, how many new memberships compared to cancellations, how many allow the 3 day trial membership to rebill, etc.

The bottom line is always going to be, how many new memberships and rebills, compared to how many cancellations. Again, we will never know those figures.

But I'm sure that Mark and company are well aware of how they stand, and make adjustments as necessary. Just because we see a lot of chatter in the forum in no way shows what the membership base as a whole feels. A better picture is to look at the ratings. For those who dislike Jimmy and feel that most people do too, look again. While his overall scene ratings aren't topping the charts, they're not piss poor either (except for the Jimmy and Vinnie scene, which is ranked extremely low).

 

[larkster]

Excellent post Vicekid, and I agree with you 100% on everything you stated above. And you also touched on something I was going to mention too but forgot, and that is the fact that out of a member base of thousands of members (I have no idea what the actual member base is but I assume it's in the thousands), only a small fraction actually take the time to post on the forum. I suspect that more members vote on the scenes than post their comments. And yet others actually email BluMedia directly, which of course we have no clue how many do, nor what they say. And finally, the #1 pulse-taking diagnosis of a site's overall health is the membership status. How many are rebilling, how many new memberships compared to cancellations, how many allow the 3 day trial membership to rebill, etc.

The bottom line is always going to be, how many new memberships and rebills, compared to how many cancellations. Again, we will never know those figures.

But I'm sure that Mark and company are well aware of how they stand, and make adjustments as necessary. Just because we see a lot of chatter in the forum in no way shows what the membership base as a whole feels. A better picture is to look at the ratings. For those who dislike Jimmy and feel that most people do too, look again. While his overall scene ratings aren't topping the charts, they're not piss poor either (except for the Jimmy and Vinnie scene, which is ranked extremely low).

Abush11, I crown you Jimmy's #1 FAN. You have been relentless in coming to his defense. He is certainly lucky to have you. If I didn't know better, I might think you were his Father or Future Lover(you wish, huh?)

 

[mikeyank]

Excellent post Vicekid, and I agree with you 100% on everything you stated above. And you also touched on something I was going to mention too but forgot, and that is the fact that out of a member base of thousands of members (I have no idea what the actual member base is but I assume it's in the thousands), only a small fraction actually take the time to post on the forum. I suspect that more members vote on the scenes than post their comments. And yet others actually email BluMedia directly, which of course we have no clue how many do, nor what they say. And finally, the #1 pulse-taking diagnosis of a site's overall health is the membership status. How many are rebilling, how many new memberships compared to cancellations, how many allow the 3 day trial membership to rebill, etc.

The bottom line is always going to be, how many new memberships and rebills, compared to how many cancellations. Again, we will never know those figures.

But I'm sure that Mark and company are well aware of how they stand, and make adjustments as necessary. Just because we see a lot of chatter in the forum in no way shows what the membership base as a whole feels. A better picture is to look at the ratings. For those who dislike Jimmy and feel that most people do too, look again. While his overall scene ratings aren't topping the charts, they're not piss poor either (except for the Jimmy and Vinnie scene, which is ranked extremely low).

I feel exactly the same way Abe, that the forum only represents a small percentage of over all membership, but I also suspect that only a slightly larger percentage vote on the scenes. When I first joined, I didn't even notice that feature, and watched the scenes without ever voting. In some cases, I went back to vote later on.

In fact, one of the forum member's recently said that he hasn't yet figured out how to vote. So I totally agree Abe, that an outcry from the forum, or very bad or very good "ratings" are also skewed. The bottom line is exactly what you say it is, membership numbers. That is the true bottom line, and something that we are not privy too, nor should we be, but I really like this site and this forum, and so I too want it to be very successful for my own pleasaure.

 

[Ms. Kianna]

Abush11, I crown you Jimmy's #1 FAN. You have been relentless in coming to his defense. He is certainly lucky to have you. If I didn't know better, I might think you were his Father or Future Lover(you wish, huh?)

Sorry Larkster........close, but I know for a fact that Mikey is Jimmy's #1 FAN.

 

[mikeyank]

Sorry Larkster........close, but I know for a fact that Mikey is Jimmy's #1 FAN.

Thank you Ms. K for re-establishing that I wear that crown. Although Abe is considerably younger than me, I would of had to challenge him in the ring for my title.