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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (29124)	1/20/2013 2:03:17 PM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32944

If he could do that, he wouldn't have bought the site

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (29124)	1/20/2013 4:08:26 PM
From: pleonastic	5 Recommendations Respond to of 32944

>Well, maybe in the beginning. But if he creates a product that brings in large numbers of subscribers, eventually the legacy users will be outnumbered and therefore our influence and value will decrease.< AND, the positive influence of and genuine value of SI will likely diminish. What will keep it from becoming yet another Y! MB-cesspool or a place for juvenile OMG-ing? The low quality typical of no-cost public forums is another form of the “tragedy of the commons”. And, if not for individually monitored forums, I think SI would also be mainly another terrain of boiling cesspools of misinformation – a veritable Yellowstone of dreck (also burdened with arrays of billboards?). Having paying subscribers (or/and lots of advertisements) is more-or-less a solution – except that only a relative few are apt to subscribe. And, who are apt to pay for doing the key monitoring work of stimulating and maintaining informed, lively, civil forums? The above issues are rather unavoidable -- that is, unless the admission costs are LOW (in addition to featuring monitored topics). And, now that a) a huge amount of work has been done for providing slick, well-working MB systems and b) follow-on opportunists have largely purloined that work, perhaps we will now begin see low-cost but valuable MBs! Well, I can hope, anyway—and I pray that SI continues to be a leader.