one day there will be no mention of the @Tater on this fair bored and that day will be a good one
It seems to me he's the one who can't let it go.
1. He was wrong about being the only game in town.
2. He was wrong to bully his most valuable users in order to make himself "feel" superior.
3. Now those users have taken their ball and built a better place somewhere else, this has to sting.
4. He's losing real money on this
a. 20+ subs per month just on the users alone who unsubscribed.
b. No more free content and traffic driving discussion by the most prolific/funny users on the board, they all came here.
c. A+B results in site devaluation in a major way, less clicks on articles, less engagement on the boards, less page views. This in turn attracts less new users, it's a domino effect.
5. Building a community like this one would normally take years of dedication and time, but from a standpoint where you have maybe 40 users/customers as active as we are...well that can snowball in a major way if you handle it right, its getting there that's hard.
6. If you want to see the real impact of Jays gigantic **** up take a look at the numbers on this board. In just a few months 1,200 threads. 34,000 messages, and I'd imagine upwards of 120,000 page views....if you add that we are still growing by the end of year 1 of this boards existence I'd expect 3k, 98,000, and 400k. That is a HUGE failure on his part, that's a lot of money down the tube just due to pure mismanagement.
7. I don't own a website yet but I'd imagine 400k page views is a decent amount in ad revenue.
8. The worst part is people are jumping ship over on tbb too, I'd take those losses and count them double in lost customers as well; because they were really there for the cool folks and weird discussions and not the "amazing sports reporting" (you get that for free at al.com).
idk man. Instead of being humbled and apologizing for being a shitty guy and realizing his position as one mediocre content provider in a VERY crowded space who was damn lucky to have us he doubled down and it may very well cost him a big part of his business, which only seems fair.
IDK how much he gets paid to just report or if his income is totally based on subscriptions? If its the latter model then just...wow.
