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 ivi
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 Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low 
#8084818 - 02/29/08 04:30 AM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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Greediness at it's best.
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Visionary Tools
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 Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: ivi]
#8084829 - 02/29/08 04:39 AM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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You get them even if you are a supporter.
Speaking of which, I feel like donating to the adblock plus chaps.
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Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: ivi]
#8084832 - 02/29/08 04:40 AM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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Server space isn't free, paid admins aren't free (kind of a tautology, but I feel the need to point it out), and sponsors don't pay if the banners get blocked.
Do you have a better solution to keep the site running? Are banners really a detriment to your time here? Where does the greed really come in here?
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 Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: crumblebum]
#8084834 - 02/29/08 04:41 AM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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crumblebum said:
Server space isn't free, paid admins aren't free (kind of a tautology, but I feel the need to point it out), and sponsors don't pay if the banners get blocked.
Do you have a better solution to keep the site running? Are banners really a detriment to your time here? Where does the greed really come in here?
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Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: Acidic_Sloth]
#8084844 - 02/29/08 04:48 AM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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Unless of course you aren't being sarcastic. If someone was making a significant ammount of money running this site, I would see that as the best kind of greediness. If someone can figure out how to financially sustain themselves while providing a service that's severely useful and fundamentally free, so what? Far from the banners, and system of sponsorships being off putting or overly capitalist, this site supports the best possible incarnation of capitalism, as the community size allows for these sponsors to be screened and reported on, thereby adding a layer of accountability you wouldn't get without the symbiotic relationship.
Then, yes, this is the best kind of greediness. Via someone else's want for money, I have access to a massive database of communally edited and archived knowledge, and a list of reputable, trusted vendors with something to risk should they offend or mistreat even a few members of the community.
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Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: ivi]
#8084883 - 02/29/08 05:24 AM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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Adblock plus is nice 
I havent seen that kind of pop up though... Maybe its blocked too?
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Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: ivi]
#8084932 - 02/29/08 06:23 AM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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ivi said:
Greediness at it's best.
how so?
I'm guessing your logic here is as idiotic as this statement
edit: rather, how is this greed? And if its greed how is it bad? Financial solvency is good for this site. Shouldn't have said idioitic, rather, unsupported. 
Edited by johnm214 (02/29/08 08:03 AM)
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ivi
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Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: johnm214]
#8084942 - 02/29/08 06:32 AM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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No need for flaming, even if you can't understand my logic. I miss the days when internet was better than TV.
Edited by ivi (02/29/08 06:41 AM)
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Acidic_Sloth
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Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: crumblebum]
#8084983 - 02/29/08 07:27 AM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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i was wholeheartedly agreeing with you. no sarcasm.
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Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: ivi]
#8085075 - 02/29/08 08:44 AM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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ivi said:
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Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: implee]
#8085093 - 02/29/08 09:05 AM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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I allow javascript and things like that, I'm not a total "Oh the webs was better when it was just geocities" puritan.
I could disable adblock plus for the main site (I do for the forums) and then hopefully that message will go away. I hope it'll pick up on that.
That would be cool.
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Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: Visionary Tools]
#8085165 - 02/29/08 09:54 AM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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Visionary Tools said:
You get them even if you are a supporter.
No you don't. I have them turned off, haven't seen a single advert for well over a year.
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Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: crumblebum]
#8085203 - 02/29/08 10:24 AM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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crumblebum said:
Server space isn't free, paid admins aren't free
According to some posts by the Shroomery admins a couple of years ago, the monthly income of the website well exceeds the needs for these expenses, including buying new hardware and licensing software. They claimed to accumulate the residue income into an account "for emergency situations". I think The Shroomery is doing much better financially than many of us may ever imagine.
And yes, the site lives from user contributions. So a bit of respect is all I ask. I don't believe there are so many users who both are not supporters, and block the advertisments, to considerably affect the monthly income.
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Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: ivi]
#8085216 - 02/29/08 10:29 AM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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Dude - fork over the $5 and be a supporter.
You can turn off the ads and not have to complain as you are in this thread.
I would still donate the money even if I got nothing extra from doing so.
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Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: Sell Your Soul]
#8085235 - 02/29/08 10:35 AM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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I havent seen this pop up and i block ads :/ and im not a supporter :\
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Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: implee]
#8085239 - 02/29/08 10:36 AM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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I do get shroomery myco sponsors ads though just not the corporation ads
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Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: Sell Your Soul]
#8085243 - 02/29/08 10:37 AM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
andyistic said:
Dude - fork over the $5 and be a supporter.
You can turn off the ads and not have to complain as you are in this thread.
I would still donate the money even if I got nothing extra from doing so.
You sound like Microsoft employee talking about Windows.
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Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: ivi]
#8085482 - 02/29/08 12:06 PM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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ivi said:
Quote:
crumblebum said:
Server space isn't free, paid admins aren't free
According to some posts by the Shroomery admins a couple of years ago, the monthly income of the website well exceeds the needs for these expenses, including buying new hardware and licensing software. They claimed to accumulate the residue income into an account "for emergency situations". I think The Shroomery is doing much better financially than many of us may ever imagine.
And yes, the site lives from user contributions. So a bit of respect is all I ask. I don't believe there are so many users who both are not supporters, and block the advertisments, to considerably affect the monthly income.
Yeah, only total assholes profit off their labor.
"There's not enough of us doing it to cause a problem" is also always a fantastic justification. It shows pretty concisely that you already know what you're doing is an asshole move that would be ruinous if taken on as a general practice.
As far as not flaming you because I don't understand your logic, what logic? You don't like paying for stuff? Ohh, how revolutionary. You're incensed over being brutally forced to view up to and including TWO strips of colorful graphics and words?
Oh man, I feel for you. When my grampa was in Korea, they tied him up and forced him to inadvertantly see banner ads while he was reading material of interest to himself. For hours at a time he'd be subjected to this torture, and when it was all over he was so crippled as a human being from the agony of all those 470x60 blinking strips that he ordered some filter patch bags and a ten pack of Amazonian syringes that he got a pretty good deal on.
The humanity.
Wait wait. I think we can solve this with logic!
Places That Are The Shroomery Have Shroomery Banner Ads
Places That Are Not The Shroomery Do Not Have Shroomery Banner Ads
Therefore
Go away and stop being a whiner. If you didn't want flaming, you shouldn't have gotten all the phosphorous out.
It's still better than television. Don't like it? You don't even have to go with the cliche "Change the fucking channel." You can go make your own channel.
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Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: ivi]
#8085516 - 02/29/08 12:15 PM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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Adblock plus or Turn off pics
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ivi
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Re: Congratulations to the admin team for reaching a new low [Re: crumblebum]
#8085554 - 02/29/08 12:27 PM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
crumblebum said:
Quote:
ivi said:
Quote:
crumblebum said:
Server space isn't free, paid admins aren't free
According to some posts by the Shroomery admins a couple of years ago, the monthly income of the website well exceeds the needs for these expenses, including buying new hardware and licensing software. They claimed to accumulate the residue income into an account "for emergency situations". I think The Shroomery is doing much better financially than many of us may ever imagine.
And yes, the site lives from user contributions. So a bit of respect is all I ask. I don't believe there are so many users who both are not supporters, and block the advertisments, to considerably affect the monthly income.
Yeah, only total assholes profit off their labor.
"There's not enough of us doing it to cause a problem" is also always a fantastic justification. It shows pretty concisely that you already know what you're doing is an asshole move that would be ruinous if taken on as a general practice.
As far as not flaming you because I don't understand your logic, what logic? You don't like paying for stuff? Ohh, how revolutionary. You're incensed over being brutally forced to view up to and including TWO strips of colorful graphics and words?
Oh man, I feel for you. When my grampa was in Korea, they tied him up and forced him to inadvertantly see banner ads while he was reading material of interest to himself. For hours at a time he'd be subjected to this torture, and when it was all over he was so crippled as a human being from the agony of all those 470x60 blinking strips that he ordered some filter patch bags and a ten pack of Amazonian syringes that he got a pretty good deal on.
The humanity.
Wait wait. I think we can solve this with logic!
Places That Are The Shroomery Have Shroomery Banner Ads
Places That Are Not The Shroomery Do Not Have Shroomery Banner Ads
Therefore
Go away and stop being a whiner. If you didn't want flaming, you shouldn't have gotten all the phosphorous out.
It's still better than television. Don't like it? You don't even have to go with the cliche "Change the fucking channel." You can go make your own channel.
I didn't read most of that bile of yours, noob. But yes, if the shroomery continues to degrade in favour of making more money, it's going to lose big time in a long run. It will slowly turn into another 4chan, because all the coherent people will leave, one by one, and be replaced by the likes of you. Do You really think this internet niche is forever split between the shroomery and mycotopia?
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