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From: SliderOnTheBlack	5/9/2007 6:26:04 AM
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Swatting at flies... Free members. Now there's an interesting point of debate. FREE members + FREE content (supplied by PAID members) = big $$$ for SI. SI's new business model is built around pay per click banner and google ads...not paid memberships. This is no longer a "paid membership site." Paid membership fees pale in comparison to ad revenue. Simply put - freeloaders clicking on ads pay the bills. What's ironic and what will ultimately end that business model -- is that the paid members who supply 98% of the content on SI do not share, or benefit in any way (free upgrades etc) in that ad revenue generated off of their content. Many old line SI posters who had large followings and who provided great content - have either left SI, or blatantly use SI as a linking platform to other sites where they are monetizing their content. Google and You Tube have recognized that failing to share pay per click/banner ad revenue with conent providers is a doomed business model. And SI - as late to the pay per click game as they were...is already behind the content monetization/ad revenue curve to the degree that their present business model is doomed. Earth to SI -- your ad/marketing consultant should be taken out and promptly shot -- if he/she hasn't pounded the table on letting the search engines spider the content here on SI because ranking in the search engines generates traffic and traffic determines PPC rates/revenue. The old line paid members who provided the most valuable content here on SI have left, are leaving, or are transitioning to other platforms... and why shouldn't they? It's one thing to create, or share content for free...it's quite another to do it for free, to put up with the "noise" generated by free members & multiple screen names... all while enriching the pockets of someone else. SI has become a shadow of it's former self. Remember the article in Stocks & Commodities magazine? Why would anyone work hard to generate valuable content for free - while those reaping the rewards from that content in turn bastardize the environment by flooding the portals with freeloading shit bags? Anyway... I go for days without checking this thread, or SI. As such I don't really have any day to day way to police this thread which has degenerated right along with SI as a whole... I don't see how anyone really takes SI as a content vehicle seriously any more? The old line posters whose content built it - don't. They've left, or are transitioning off of it. What's left is Yahooligans gone wild. Multiple screen names. Floods of free posters and a bunch of noise. In case no one noticed... I quit taking SI seriously long ago. Remember those party lines in the old days - when kids would pass around a note in class all day and then that evening they would all call in at 10 p.m. and all you heard was a bunch of noise... It's like visiting a seedy, run down bar in the old neighborhood when you go back to your hometown and visit family and old friends. It brings back some fond memories, but you don't really enjoy going back...and thus, you find yourself going back less and less frequently... Welcome to the new SI. Live by FREE...die by FREE. You get what you pay for. later, SOTB

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