One, I serve. That is what I do. I'm not the CO, President nor anything else. I am the reckoning. I know my role.
What are you calling non-technical? I had the keys to the board. I may BS around, but I'm not anywhere near as dumb as I play. I was THE admin. Just who do you think was the one that had access to the database? I had a full time job and ran a board with 2-3 K posts a day, and at least 50 headaches just like you.
So why indeed. It started out as doing a favor on a small board I turned into a monster because I got caught up thinking post count was what mattered most. You can go look at the result. The people don't matter. The post count does. I wouldn't give a nickel for the place now.
You want to start a board? Go right ahead. You don't have the temperment and are too one sided. There is nothing objective about you. You run a board, you have to grit your teeth at idiots and say nothing. Being a technical geek and owner does NOT make you a leader.
We are friends here. People are more important than post count on sone geeky shit on the net that means nothing in the end. Think about it. You always get welcomed back,
Last edited by Gunny; 01-02-2017 at 11:31 PM.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
Maybe Pete will chime in, he's owned a lot of sites. Those sites that do valuations are crap. They are all over the board if you put the same domain name in 30 of those sites.
Pick a hobby subject - then it's fun. I like politics, I like most of the people.... I LOVE the technical back end and running a site, the FTP, coding, vBulletin, researching, advertising (not lately). Lots of work though, and in return I get folks like Gabby and yourself mocking and giving me troubles from time to time.
Yups. But at that subject, advertising might be nice, and if he gets just 50 posting members...
My goal is to NEVER hit that ban button unless absolutely necessary. Everyone has a right to their voice (remember my old slogan "where your voice counts) over at the other place? But I won't always bite my tongue. I will often just reply in kind, but I won't ban that person.
“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?” - Chris Rock
I think I actually banned maybe 3 people the entire time. Banned member don't post. They were oddly enough pretty much the same people you have banned. Others don't post here because of me. Sorry (not). I wish I'd done all that sh*t I'm accused of. I'd have had a great sex life, hard-partying a-hole from Hell. Truth is, I worked 10 hours a day then had to come babysit a board and spent most of my time undoing what some of the mods were up to. Then others would act like "well, you knew ths was going on". Sure. I got time to read 2K posts and get involved in your personal pissing contests.
So when someone comes along and says "I'm going to start my own board" like they got a better plan I just exhale. Good luck. Why do you think I'm always screwing with you? I KNOW the sh*t you have to take. Better your dumb ass than mine.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
Also want to add - while I think those valuation sites suck, and laughed at Gabby's guestimate - I DO NOT think this joint is worth a lot of cash, IMO. There are various reasons that one could sell at a decent value, and some will buy at such prices. I have zero desire to ever sell. And if I ever grow tired, it'll be going to someone trusted, a gift if you will, just to keep things going and "as-is". It really doesn't make jack shit as far as ads go that Gabby pointed to. It's far from a moneymaker!! And it's easy to keep running forever. The costs I believe everyone knows - renew the domain name, which I generally do for 2 years at a time. I also pay extra to keep the domain registry private. Yes, you have to pay extra to do that!! Folks will look up ownership and the stalking starts!! LOL And in addition to the domain name, we have a $20 monthly hosting fee. It COULD be much much cheaper on a "shared" hosting plan that most places use, but you guys remember issues in the past, and I have us on a semi-dedicated server for better performance. Then the occasional fee for any software, software upgrades or the equivalent. I don't think much more than that? So like $30 every 2 years for the "name", about $240 per year on hosting fees. In a nutshell that's really it, but sometimes I'll buy software and use it here, and then uninstall because you bastards don't care for it. And a few we do use that were long, long paid for already. But average it's like $255 per year. Generally speaking, if you look at the member names in yellow, and of course our awesome staff, a few years it probably evened out with a huge thanks to folks who donated to help keep things going. If you think I'm rich off of the Google advertising, think again. Let's put it this way, it doesn't make enough to cover the year. AND I offset it sometimes by using Google Adwords as well, which is an extra cost, as that's me advertising with Google. If someone were to search "political message board", we would have an advertisement off to the right, for example. Problem with that is, it can cost anywhere from $1 - $5 or so PER CLICK!!! Needless to say, Adwords is rarely used by myself.
And for the liberals here - just think of me as Trump running a casino. You can come in and have fun, and it looks glitzy and glamorous, but it's not a moneymaker and I may have to file for bankruptcy.
“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?” - Chris Rock
“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?” - Chris Rock
Well guess what? Just for sh*ts n grins I logged in over there for the first time in a couple of years. And (not so) surprisingly, the same idiots that God granted the Power of speech are still there, Can't say as I miss them. Hope the idiots are proud of themselves for keeping up sounding like idiots for 10 years. You'd think some people might grow up.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke