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To: Dale Baker who wrote (29198)1/22/2013 12:34:09 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie8 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 32938
 
I agree with most of your post 100%. But "He does not owe any of us any reasons for his personal business decisions." doesn't add up when OUR CONTENT is 99% of his business. All the other charts and flash and BS various people tacked on here never mattered a damn. SI is about the people posting, yet we the people never mattered a damn in the business planning.

This is akin to saying that a nightclub would be nothing without the people who show up and drink and dance. Afterall, if they didn't show up to drink and dance, the nightclub would go out of business. The nightclub owner is providing a place for people to meet and dance. They are providing a service and a product. The people who pay to get into that nightclub and pay for the drinks are an integral part of the success of the business, but that doesn't mean that they should get free drinks. The nightclub would go out of business if that were the case.

SI is a virtual nightclub. Brad & Jeff, and GNET and Bob and Brad and now Craig are providing us with a virtual nightclub where we can all gather and shoot the shit. For much of the ride there has been no charge for admittance and the drinks have been free. Management may or may not change that going forward. But it is almost certain that they will try to find some way to increase membership and revenues.

Personally, from a business perspective, I think that our content is highly overvalued. I kinda poked fun at that concept in one of my posts where I addressed Craig and suggested that each of my posts should be worth a penny. Seriously, if you are going to claim that our content is 99% of the business, there should be some sort of monetary value for each post. But how would we value them? Are your posts more valuable than mine? Are messages about investing more valuable than politics?

The co-op idea was another that I floated as a joke. Message board management by committee? A little slice of hell. And just think if it was a co-op of Politics for Pros folks who bought it out? or VFC. No, you need management who doesn't give a damn about the content. Otherwise this place would turn into an echo chamber and a haven for censorship.
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