I don't really care that the dumb cunt Kelli doesn't make posts there, but the fact that the stellar archives from when Luke was writing are gone, along with the Jeremy Steele fights and all them fun times I had pitching woo to my sweet Miss Coco Loco make me both sad and angry.

Here is what it is now.

Isn't it all cached in google or somewhere?

I guess it is cached on Google, but how long after a site is dead does that clear out?

It should be on the wayback machine for a while. That is really sad if the real Luke's posts get lost.

I just downloaded a few dozen of Luke's essays. It will take longer to figure out the whore bios...if anyone is even interested in them any more.

Sucks to see the site go. I would have bought it just to save the pictures for our various Camera of Death threads. But alas, I bet the Jew is happy about this.

What a shame.

That lame cunt Kelli killed LukeFord.com, so I knew LIB would be a graveyard, I just never expected it to be completely shut down.

Back when Cindi was trying to get $50k for the site, I think I offered a grand. She should have taken it.

I am going to have to search some of my fave stories and screen cap the caches. Gauge's ex talking about her. Dylan Lauren talking about her on set fight w/ the blond. Some where I already have the screen cap of the origin of the Miss Coco/TRPWL feud, where he turns down her offer of sex at the Fat Tara court date.

I found the Leah Luv/Hillary Scott fight on AdultFYI, Alkie Gene's archive is still live, but was there an account of it on LIB also?

"And Hillary had no boundaries," contends Luv. "You could tell her to stick her head in her ass and she would unscrew it to do it. "-from adultfyi

i loled

I enjoyed Luke's writing. All things must change it seems

All of that was predicted when Ms. Roberts laid down the law regarding the comments section but to be fair, when Luke gave up the site to someone that never intended on spending significant time digging for dirt, the inevitable conclusion was written as well. I like Cindi but she had too many irons in the fire to pull off a website like that, what she would post was centered on playing favorites with those who had an axe to grind.

Kelli pushed that to the extreme and ran off most of the commentators, not just moderated the minimal trouble children. Then, as she did at LF itself, she would provide knee jerk reactions to events she wasn't willing to look into. Running stories like how Brazzers was paying something like $50 million for Digital Playground under one of her aliases was as nonsensical as her crusade about Buttman clearly having sex with Summers without bothering to watch the fucking video. Again, in a declining market where many affiliates are cutting back, folding altogether, and/or not paying bills, it doesn't matter how much you think your website is worth if you aren't willing to put in more effort than to be a cut & paste queen hawking whatever cam shows or BS you are paid to run.

Both LIB and LF were gossip websites, not news media, not resources for the downtrodden, just gossip sites. Once you get lazy and are unwilling to spend a few hours digging up dirt not found elsewhere, the end is coming. Trying to convert it into something better isn't going to work as an occasional side hobby either. Reviewing your own movies favorably under an alias or more accurately those for people you work for isn't profitable either, especially after they fuck you over. And if you want a basic valuation model, it is no big secret how much various companies pay to advertise, information to be disclosed in the website sale along with all terms such as duration.

LIB may well return with a remodel any day now but without quality contributors and someone willing to put in the effort to make it work, there is no point.

Yeah, it is very hard to run a gossip site when you are scared to make enemies.

I miss the old Luke Ford. His post porn version is a complete bore.

Come back, Luke: all is forgiven. Just shave the damn beard.

The original lf i discovered when i first learned how to use a computer haha. max hardcore's review of Bring it On is still one of the best pieces of satire ever written. Anywhere. Cindi was a losebag imho. She'd let idiots like germy post nonsense at will, but sent me a pm warning me for calling Tony Eveready a scumbag nagger.

^yup...germy killed that site. She should've given him the panzer treatment every three weeks.

Anyone know how CL is doing btw?. she was suffering from something wasn't she?.

She was suffering from hypocodria and conceit.

I dunno if either of those are really words

Close enough to get yer point across.

Cindi was just too nice. Nice people don't run gossip sites....well, nice people don't run successful gossip sites.

She was fscking insufferable is what she was. And if Panzer had been given the Panzer treatment every three weeks, he might still be here, instead of harrasing this mom & pop op for shemales:

Guest blogging for Luke one week was a total trip. For some strange, fucker-up reason, he entrusted his site to Burg and me while he off to the porno show. Yeah, Luke, guess what, we were there too, ADT watch jokes and all.

I got to read the crushing novela he wrote about Holly Randall, and all the weird shit he never published on the site. It was clear he was not a "fan" of porn, but still condoned it, if for no other reason it gave him cause to write his books.

He was even more fun when he had the cam show from that garage he rented. I know Bornyo and I checked in and lobbed some good-natured grenades that his Jew blog friends didn't understand. It truly was a hovel.

I don't read the Hillbilly or TRPWL much anymore. The fights are so narrow and seemingly pointed against each other. Luke is done, so is xxxjay (I think Gian Jurgens knew him), Jimmy DiGiorgio, Gene Ross pre-tarot cards, Wanker Wang on LF.com. Twitter let's whores talk now like they actually think: in small, vacuous chunks, with little editing.

Mike is on a tear in the XBiz forums with his "anonymous email" attack on Peter Warren at AVN right now. Par for the course, Mike jumped into a recent thread about award shows and then hid like a coward when someone called him on various aspects of the BS email. Guess who that someone was???

I get his anger at them. They refuse to treat him like royalty and he looks for anything at all to exaggerate, embellish, generate himself, or promote that he perceives hurts them. Most people shrug their shoulders at what he says and figure, "haters gonna hate" and dismiss him outright given how terrible his credibility is. They are super cool about quietly supporting guys like me that stand up to him, I have a bunch of DM's, private tweets, and emails thanking me for standing up to him again, even a couple of warnings how he'll go back to attacking me (not much to attack that I'm aware of with no financial ties to the industry, not doing the conventions for years or needing anything from anyone). Still, agreement or not, I'm not going to remain silent when someone's being a complete douche bag in a way that would get him in trouble if he actually owned any assets.

Wanker Wang was pretty good on LF.com. I also liked Quasarman when he was doing one.

Just don't let that TRPWL fag give you any fantasy football advice. Loopy Texican is all "Cowboys Cowboys Cowboys." That Witten cocksucker has been sockin it right in my keister all year.

But seriously, TRPWL shows South to be a fraud, and South flails away at them, in between Shy Love/AHF shilling and pretending he is a player in the porn industry, when mostly he's scamming whores for pussy, and charging mopes to be in bukkake scenes.

http://therealpornwikileaks.com/shocking-charges-leveled-mike-south/

that anonymous email South has on his site is so ridiculously fake its unbelievable. i almost laughed out loud reading it.

You mean the one about the rigged AVN awards?

I remember when Peter Warren got the job a AVN. Right around the time Mike Ramone was sacked over the Emily Evermore award scam...yeah, that long ago. He had some choice words for XPT. Which means we got under his skin. I wonder what he'd think knowing at least one of his writers used to be a mod here.

I will also miss the Camera of Death.

Im not going to say how many, but its more than one.

It seems, news of the demise of LIB has been greatly exaggerated.

http://www.lukeisback.com/

They put it back up, cool. I hope this thread helped shame that Kelli moron into making it live again.

"LIB may well return with a remodel any day now but without quality contributors and someone willing to put in the effort to make it work, there is no point." I stand by my assessment from last month. If there are plans to make the site worth going to, I haven't heard them but I gather Kelli spends way more time on the XBiz forums than on either of the old Luke sites. It's her call...

What does she do on the Xbiz forums? Try to tell everyone that her Fame Registry Awards are legit?

WTF is a Fame Registry Award? All teh whores do with their AVN lucite is turn it into a heroin cutting board. Everything else is just pizza boxes and moral detritus.

I think that is awards Kelli gives to her PR clients, but I could have that wrong.

She links to everyone that joins and jumps into a great many threads. Some actually find her helpful so she must use up any helpfulness there and has nothing left over for the Luke websites. Lately, she's hawked her e-book but in general, she is far, far less confrontational there.

Seeing as how she is the only one that gets to see her "numbers", even those "winning" one of them have suggested they were silly (and worse) but how different is her BS game than the one D. Cypher and partner tried a few years back (suggesting it was industry wide while their people and a handful of clients they were courting magically won everything). How different from other one or two person "awards" that are only generated for self publicity?

For that matter, why didn't anyone associated with XPT ever start a porn version of the Razzies? Even those involved in the so-called "Big Three" (AVN, XRCO, XBiz) think there is merit to having such an award system out there and who better than the collective ill will generated here?

I actually started on it a few years ago, but I am much more of an idea guy than a follow through guy.

Looks like Kelli Kunt was reading this thread. Archives are back on the site, and way easier to find that when Cindi had the thing (she kept all the archives, but you had to find them via google advanced searches).

http://www.xbiz.net/index.php?c=opportunity.view&id=9127

"Practically giving it away"... for $6500... LOL

Cut and paste, please. I don't have a log in for Xbiz.

I would figure $6500 is the current asking price for LIB. It would have been worth that prior to the Kelli moron killing its traffic for the past 2 yrs. Current Alexa #s are 416k global, 144k US, w/ 72% bounce rate (view 1pg and leave, likely search engine and backlinks), 17% of traffic is from search engines and 2minute time on site.

In comparison, TRPWL is 145k global, 50k US, 35% bounce, almost 8minute time on site, and 8% search engine traffic.

Meanwhile, South must have figured out some funny business, because they don't even list his US ranking on the top. 38% of his traffic is coming out of Canada, only 37% from US. 182k global, and you gotta scroll down to see his 67k US. 53% bounce rate, almost 4 minutes time on site and 3.7% search engine hits.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/mikesouth.com

Anyway, $6500 would mean $5000 is the real price. I'd offer $2500, $3k if they could help me to get Jeremy and Coco Loco posting there again.

I really miss the Camera of Death!

"Here is your chance to own a piece of porn history. I'm all but giving away the site lukeisback.com, including all the posts and the lukeford archives.
For the insanely low price of $6500 it can be yours!
Seriously ... how can you not jump on this deal? It's an extremely well aged domain that still has some decent traffic and a TONNNNN of posts. Great for SEO!!
Don't just start your own industry blog ... buy one that is already well established!"

She was warned that demanding all comments be positive and friendly while she was allowed to bully, beat up, or otherwise heavily moderating the forums like a lovesick fanboy from ADT protecting his flavor of the month from even neutral comments, would not work. She didn't listen and given the limited number of op-ed's provided, most of them trying to kiss ass or ingratiate herself with someone or another, I'm half surprised The Floating World kept linking to either former Luke website, removing them discussed in the past.

LukeIsBack is lame now but it would be a shame to lose the archives. Like or hate Luke, the content is a good documentation of porn history.

Great, so you'll cough up for the archive, then? PM Willie D.

I'll put up a sawbuck towards the effort. I'll make it a Benjamin if someone can prove to me it's not all sitting in the Wayback Machine somewhere.

Can't they crowd fund it?

Insanely low price=you have to be insane to pay that much for it.

And it gets even better, she's now holding what she seems to think is a fire sale for all her porn related websites, her fake award registry thing, and rights to three movies that you can find for free online (two of them sound like one movie given two names: "Ugly chicks need love too" or something like it, and one about "The Love Twins" who she suggested cried over a comment of mine in a review one time). The price for all this wonderful magic? Too damn much! ($13k?)