B.O.I. participants play favorites?

Educate me!

Originally Posted by WebSlave

Someone educate this person for me, please.

Not worth the time. He's here on someone else's dime (almost literally), so maybe when he decides he's had enough "fun" here, he'll resort back to his "principles" or lack thereof, leave here (again)and return to the best place on the net

Originally Posted by dwedeking

Again, the point of Gregg's original inquiry was if there was a slanting of the level playing field that was on Fauna.

And I do believe we are addressing that by discussing who it is that decides that the BOI is worth paying for in order to participate in.

Just about everything has costs associated with it. That's just a fact of life. What is exposure of the GOOD GUY kind worth on the BOI? How much does someone value the good will that their kind words towards someone will bring? How much is it worth to someone to be able to post a query about someone that doesn't come up in a search of previous posts for them to research? How much is it worth to someone to keep from making a mistake in their purchases? Those are the values that people need to consider. If it is not worth $10 per year to them, then so be it, no hard feelings on my part, and have a nice day.

But if we have a substantial group of people posting on the BOI that have felt it was worth paying for, what is that telling you? How many people have paid for this privilege that have not yet posted but are reserving that option for when it may be needed? What separates them from the people who do not think it is worthwhile? I think those are the issues that need to be addressed to determine if this is really a negative influence on the direction of the BOI, don't you? What exactly is it that has influenced the people who HAVE paid to be on the BOI to do so? What is it that THEY want the BOI to be and are trying to do so with their PAID presence? What are they MAKING the BOI into right now and is it a bad thing?

Hey john:

Rich asked for someone to educate me, not to waste their time passing judgement on me. My question stands however.

What are they MAKING the BOI into right now and is it a bad thing?

Well at least we agree upon something That is the question. We just have different opinions on the answer

Originally Posted by dwedeking

Well at least we agree upon something That is the question. We just have different opinions on the answer

Time will tell, then. I'm betting that I am right and you are wrong, however.

Want to make a small wager as to whether this site will still be here two years from now? That's if I am still alive, of course.

Of course it will be here in two years Rich. The question is What will it be. Can you educate me regarding my prior question as John responded by attempting to bash me and KS at the same time while avoiding the question.

Sure, I'll put $500 where my mouth is.

I'd like to hear your education of Ophis though, as I feel KS has a good business plan even though I don't like the totalitarian way they monitor their forums.

Educating Ophis.....I hope this isn't going to turn into gay porn

OK Ophis. Go to kingsnake.com and apply for a commercial advertising account and a front page link and let us know how free everything is there. Count up all the front page links and commercial accounts there with your new found knowledge of those costs and see what you come up with. Jeff has expenses and he chose a different way to recover them that apparently works for him. Different strokes for different folks. I'm doing what I think works, and is needed, on this site.