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Technology Stocks : InfoSpace (INSP): Where GNET went! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sarkie who wrote (19719)	6/23/2000 12:21:00 PM
From: Impristine-2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28311

Go2Net...Is a Long Term SELL unless they fundamentally change. Why do they need 500 employees to manage a website? They dont' need it. You don't need that many employees. You don't need that much fat. You don't need that much stupid management walking around in suits acting like they are doing something. You don't need that many people to manage a website that is dying on the vine. You don't need it. It's not necessary. You don't need the SI POLICE. You can do the POLICE THING if you choose. And that's fine. Go ahead and do it. And you will always have a site that is a niche. It's a niche of people who can only tolerate people that are of the same opinion. And that's fine. Go ahead and do that. I don't really care what you do. I don't agree with it. I don't think it's additive to anything or anybody. I don't think it helps. It's not the source of new things. New Ideas. New perspectives. It doesn't help. Now how GNET chooses to manage their business is none of my business other than I have been forced to sign up for nearly 10 accounts due to repeated expulsions for everything from complimenting someone, to expulsion for sarcasm. Now if it's so bad, and SI management has nothing else to do but expulse people for compliments and sarcasm. Then all I can say is WOW! Good luck! I wish you a long life with your successful business. Does it take 500 employees to expulse people for sarcasm? If people are so closed minded that they understand nothing but a 2 by 4 the head, Then how else can someone make a point in this medium. If i had a FOG horn to blow to get people's attention, do you think i would rather use that then using SARCASM? I don't know. What do you think. And one of the fundamental problems with all of this is they way people think. There are people who are extremely abstract. And they may not know exactly what they are trying to say. But after they say it. Someone with a little different understanding...and a little different perspective ....picks it up and runs with it... and says it a different way...and the point evolves...and progress is made.... But if you have a bunch of Analytical thinkers....Sitting in a box...with their head up each others ass...smelling each others farts...waiting for some body to come up with an idea...so they can copy it...then what have you got? You have a 500 employee website that is dying on the vine...and you have the SI police that is killing any creative thought and construtive rambling...before it ever gets off the ground.....and that's all fine and good...if that's the way you choose to run your business...but long term....it will fail...It will go right down the tubes...because the niche will get smaller and smaller...as you put your head further and further up your own ass....