No need to feel the least bit embarrassed, Brad. In fact, I suggest you bought it back once already because YOU were embarrassed at what this place had turned into. We who remain "collaterally damaged" as the result of your personal choices are entitled to our "experience" the last time. And we haven't forgotten.
This place will NOT continue to exist for long, period!
And certainly will NOT exist with the freely accessible content it currently promulgates. His graphically depicted demographic by and large can't even write in complete sentences for starters!
Dmitry's programming is one skillset and we have no way to assess that, just take your word for it is all. That's well and good. Personally, I'm happy you didn't sell it to Dr. Oz, or Rachel, or Gail King, or TMZ, or WWF.
Monetizing SI is a totally different matter and is NOT motivated by "SI User requests," as you have posited. Monetizing investment (ROR, ROI) regardless of the label, is totally personal, esoteric ephemeral moving target, and springs from ego-centric money goals of the totally untried owner of THIS eAsset.
Besides, all your personal options/ aka gene pool selections came from a narrow pool of personally available and willing talent in an xyz point in YOUR timeline. Doesn't change the fact the new honcho is an ex-pat who has already voted with his feet.
SI may turn out to be a bad case of Silicon Indigestion, on both sides of the Maalox bottle.
I'm not harboring any delusions about the future of this place. Besides, I've been on your & Jill's personal doghouse list many times. Disagreeing w/you at this juncture should not come as a big shock. I've just learned to do it more civilly. This IS still America, right? |
