I’m afraid that any extra attention to ourselves could be fatal. So why would they want to keep a tiny, useless old website like the SDMB? (from lawsuits and liabilities…say, from some idiot who posts, I dunno, a death wish for a politician.) The bean counters might tell them that there’s no profit here and the lawyers might tell them that there’s a danger here. Welcome to WikiDope, the wiki thats all about the Straight Dope Message Board There are many, many articles that need to be written. As they take ownership, they will presumably also make a detailed inventory of what they just bought. That’s such a small amount that it apparently doesn’t show up anywhere where the suits notice.īut now there’s a new boardroom full of suits. The guys in suits are managing a business worth tens of millions of dollars, and the SDMB message board’s total budget seems to be a hundred dollars a month for using the software at Discourse. But from reading between the lines in those older threads, I got the impression that the main reason these boards still exist is because of a weird situation: the highest level of management simply did not know we are here. There has always been a huge amount of secrecy about who owns this site,who manages it, who pays for it, who profits from it, and why they still let it operate. It’s like wondering how you could convince Gen Z to use land line phones.So now there’s a new owner of the StraightDope.Īnd in the thread about it most of the posts are light-hearted and optimistic.īut me, well…I’m wondering about the potential for disaster.įrom older threads, it seems like this site is in danger of being cancelled. I honestly don’t see us – or any message board, honestly – being able to pull in large numbers of new, younger users anymore. Message boards are dying all over, so it’s not just us – most younger readers don’t engage with old-style message boards anymore they prefer social media, or sites like Reddit. We’re still a traditional message board (though with a lot broader range of content than most message boards had, which tended to be focused on a particular topic). This place is heavily moderated and bans people who are jerks - which would result in the banning of about half of all reddit users and about 90% of youtube commenters. We are hard on dumbasses and at least 50% of people are of below average intelligence. It lacks a “like” feature to enable people to ride along with simplistic opinion, which is unpopular (much as I prefer it as it is). There doesn’t have to be any great reason why one person gets wealthier, but once they do, their very wealth causes them to get wealthy faster than everyone else.Īlso this place is a bit stolid. Secondly it’s just the age old problem of wealth begetting wealth. I cant open half the threads, because it says 'This thread is private or doesnt exist'. The front page particularly the newest version is substantially video/image/meme based. What is going on The message boards look completely different. It’s silly, but the FSM has a lot of adherents and I think we’d have fun overlap.įirstly Reddit is only kinda text based. Or we could reach out to the Pastafarians - I could see Cecil getting honorary Pirate and Prophet status. I could also see a ‘live’ reading of several past top columns in a short video posted wherever that might draw interest. I have heard several dopers have their own shows or channels on various media, so perhaps a shout out there would bring in a few. Although for all I know we have 1-2 pro or semi-pro individuals who could manage it among our many members. The problems are of course the cost of producing such a thing would likely be quite high - and if it increases the costs it is totally counterproductive. Not trying to dismiss the thread, just figured I’d mention what had already been discussed in the source thread but not H&R’s OP.Īlthough I do think a youtube channel in lines of The SCIENCE or this gem from Cracked about Andrew Jackson would be a good fit for Cecil and the Dope. Well, he already indicated a youtube channel was out of the question, and that podcasts, while theoretically possible, would require assistance, teamwork, and time, so was a more distant possibility.
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