They will bend for whoever indirectly gives them the most revenue
Then you don't have even the slightest inkling where most of our revenue is coming from.
Try this critical thinking exercise:
1. Why do a lot of people prefer really cheap stocks?
2. Do you think these people, as a result of their market activities, have much discretionary income?
3. Do you think these people have so much of it that they can afford to spend $80 of it on a site that already lets them post for free, but enables some extra features if they subscribe?
4. If not them, then who might have this kind of discretionary income and willingness to spend it where they get some benefit?
Answer those questions for yourself then ask yourself who you think provides us with the most revenue and what benefit there would be in us doing unethical and possibly illegal things in the interest of wooing a non-profitable demographic?
Since you won't tell me how much you think we're making from page views, though you claim page views is what motivates us, perhaps you can guess what percentage of our income comes from advertising, which comes from page views (more specifically, the occasional clicks that come from page views from the non-subscribers who see the ads).
Go ahead and venture a guess. I'm looking at the figure right now rounded to the nearest hundredth of a percent, and bet you can't guess. But you still maintain that it's enough to motivate us to sell our souls.
If we were so lacking in altruism of any kind, and so greedy and worshipful of the almighty dollar, your assertion still makes zero sense.
The fact is, you can't create any plausible scenario in which it would make sense for me to be what/who you say I am. You can make wild claims about what I do, but they all fall apart if you try to figure out why I would do the things you claim.
Occam's Razor really does apply here. Why am I running a message board? Because I've run them in one way or another since 1987 and am a hard-core message-board guy. It's been both vocation and avocation to me for ages. Simple answer. And the simplest is the most likely correct one.
Heck, I'm sitting here at 1:19 AM reading and replying to message board posts. If that ain't hard-core, I don't know what is.
Occam's Razor not only means the well-known "The simplest explanation is the most likely correct one" but it also means that the more convoluted your argument, and the more variables you try to throw into it, the more likely one of them is to be wrong; taking out your whole argument. You violate the Razor all the time.
Again, really embarassing to see a self-professed critical thinker doing that. |
