Hard Times at Ovusoft.com
For the last several days we’ve been getting a small but steady stream of traffic from the forum over at Ovusoft.com, but the URL in our logs resolves as a database error, and all attempts to find the thread that was sending us the traffic came up ziltch.
So last night I posted this in their catch-all forum:
SUBJECT: Hello from Comstock Films
My name is Tony Comstock.
My wife and I make very tender-hearted, but very explicit films about sex that are popular with women and couples.
Even still I surprised when our web traffic statistics started showing a modest but steady stream of traffic from this forum.
Of course sex is one of the nicer and more popular ways to make babies (my wife and I had sex in February of last year, and now we have a beautiful five month old daughter, our second) so maybe this is just the place that films like our would be discussed.
In any case, the URL in our logs doesn’t indicate the specific forum, and I’ve tried searching in every way I can think of. We’re terribly curious what brought up our films/company (I hope it was something good!)
If someone happens to have seen the post, or better knows how I could use the search function to find it, Peggy and I would sure appreciated it.
Yours,
Tony Comstock
With in minutes the post was deleted.
Undaunted, I posted another:
SUBJECT: Did Ovusoft Eat My Post
Hello again,
I just made a post asking for help finding the source of web referals from this message board to our website, but the post dissappeared just minutes after I put it up.
I know databases can be flakey, but I also know that tight-knit boards can be suspicous of what appears to be commercial intrusion.
We’re just curious why our work is being discused on this board, really.
Help?
Within minutes there were responses to this post, mostly accusing me of spamming, and doubtful that Comstock Films would ever be discussed by the women on the Ovusoft forums.
But a couple minutes more and it turned out that our movies had been mentioned, and our website had been linked to, it’s just it was in the Sexual Health forum, (a forum that is invisible and can’t be searched, and you have to be a member for 30 days and have made 50 posts to access it, which is why I couldn’t find it), in response to a woman who was asking for recomendations for sextoys and erotic DVDs.
There were a few more post, mostly accusing me of having a secret(?) agenda of wanting to promote my films. Of course this is absolutely correct. Anytime our company or our films get mentioned on a message board, I go, sign up, and see if I can talk to people about how they found us, did they like the movie, was it what they expected, etc. It’s part of my job, a part that I (usually) like.
This morning I went back to the Ovusoft forums to see if anything had been added to the thread. I suppose I hoped that maybe whomever first recommended us might have risen to my defense. But when I tried to reload the thread this morning, it was gone. My account was deleted too.
I know I shouldn’t take that personally, but I do.
April 11th, 2006 at 3:52 am
I run a pro-choice website and have done the same thing when an unfamiliar board links to it–and been met with much the same result, although my site is not commercial in any way. Unfortunately I’ve found that a lot of people who run boards are on power trips of one form or another, so yeah, you do have to learn not to take it personally.
PS–my husband and I purchased “Xana and Dax” and LOVE IT!
April 15th, 2006 at 7:36 am
I can certainly understand that there’s a level of suspicion when a commercial enterprise comes onto a community. What surprised me was the level of hostilty and suspicion, even in light of the fact that it was the community itself that brought up our company/films.
So it goes.
I’m very happy you and your husband enjoyed X&D!
April 24th, 2006 at 5:17 am
[...] I’d like to be able to tell people what I do, what Tony and I do without it being met with suspicion. I’d like to not be assumed off the bat to be a merchant of sleaze — see Tony’s recent experience on the Ovusoft bulletin boards (Hard times at Ovusoft) for an example that left me seething. [...]
May 21st, 2006 at 8:21 pm
Hi Tony.
I’ve been directed over here from the actual ovusoft link. The ovumafia would have you believe that the majority of women do enjoy housework and breeding for fun, but in the sexual health forum we do get a bit more real.
The girl who did originally post your url has been horrified that anything bad would be directed your way. She loves your films and can’t say enough good things. She felt really bad that this happened.
I stumbled onto it today and immediately had to come over and see what she was so happy about. Let me tell you, as an abuse survivor who is very scared of sexuality, to see something to natural, so real and so loving was immense.
Even if I did have to download Quicktime.
Again, I apologize for the Ovumafia.
I wish you and your wife the best with your films and more, more, more!!
PS. Do you deliver internationally?