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Originally Posted by sue_nami
I arrived here 6 years ago. I missed it when ASPD went down and ECCIE arose. I have a question about that time. how did it go down? how long after aspd went down before eccie came around?
ECCIE existed long before ASPD went down and was one of several growing their membership as many looked for alternatives to the corruption present on ASPD.
how did folks find out about eccie?
Many were already members of it and other sites and word spread
were there other local contender web sites for the Austin hang out zone for the hobby?
Yes. They all competed to host the exodus but ECCIE was the one that flourished.
if ECCIE does go down, and if another replacement pops up to replace it from an out of country site, how do we all find it and end up there?.
You know somebody that knows somebody that knows somebody that knows......... and tells somebody
When things changed, did the providers all change names and start over with a new identity?
A few did.... Mostly to get away from bad pasts.... Most kept their existing handles
did the mongers turn to street walkers during the down time?
There was no down time....
I am curious to learn from the past of ebbs and flow of this local hobby market. anyone want to expound on the history of this sort of change in the local community?
If this and other sites went away there will be a lot of cash starved whores competing for dollars and wishing they had maintained a better stable of regulars. Those that have regulars will probably be more appreciative and willing to adjust to keep them.....
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The biggest problem Amber had with ASPD was in trusting her ADMIN and staff when she got sick to run things properly. Before she passed she listened to some and realized what CK and his cronies had done to the site and removed him reinstating one of her old trusted Admins that tried to save the site.
The demise of ASPD was due to an all too familiar problem that occurs when a sole owner passes away without a will in place and/or power of attorney that authorizes someone else to access funds, pay bills etc.....
There was also a typical feud / power struggle between family members which was sad but predictable.
It's sad to see some take shots at Amber for the way she hacked her way through the code trying to constantly improve ASPD. As she did it her motives were not to make it such that upgrades would not work.... She just tried always to give members what they wanted..... even when she knew better (she was against letting the whores post in forums for example)
Attacks on ASPD caused issues as well but not mentioned were that often the attacks were actually on CK and his cronies that made some internet enemies and he lacked the ability to set aside pride and find solutions......
People can say whatever negative you want about Amber and her efforts, She created and ran (if not the first???) the top escort review site in Texas at the time and that made other's want to try to get a piece of. Several other sites spun off from it to stake their place out on the web.
As ASPD faltered there was an effort by the returning Admin to create a new site but there was also a desire to get rid of all the bugs and issues ASPD had and they simply got it up and running too late to capture the membership....
People tried a variety of sites but it was the owners/admins of ECCIE that captured the membership making appealing offers to guys for posting their reviews here and installing many of the ASPD staff here which gave a "friendly" face to the place.
Lost to many is the fact that ECCIE did not evolve with the closing of ASPD. It was already a successful site growing daily before ASPD floundered. I don't remember when ECCIE launched but I joined a good 6-8 months prior to ASPD folding. CK and his cronies caused a lot of the issues that were problematic for the site and many members were leaving long before Amber's turn for the worse which caused her distress.
Look back to early postings and absent in all the staff ECCIE DID bring on board from ASPD was CK1942.... His "talents" and attitude were not welcomed by the operators of this site in regards to running it.....
In the beginning of the migration to ECCIE quite a few ASPD Mods were installed here and immediately went work trying to corrupt this site the way they had ASPD. Being an ASPD Moderator had become quite a lucrative position under the leadership of CK. Corruption flourished and pockets were lined.....
Owners here were much more willing to listen and look and, one by one, former ASPD mods were kicked to the curb here in Austin as well as other places. There was a huge shift in the make-up of the place and the little power mongers were done away with. Some are bitter still.
Most of those that know the real stories are long gone but not hard to find if you filter out the noise from those that tried to keep them from being known.....
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