Reply #535: Everyone who posts here has contributed to this success

[GirlinContempt]

Without the throngs of people searching the Internets and blogs for news stories and topics, without all of us adding content and discussing and all of that, the ads would be worthless, this place would be worthless. It's a combined effort, and to people who have been around forever, this feels like a total f.u. We all contributed, and we all didn't mind helping each other out, helping the owners of the site, contributing what we could when we could, because it was all of us together. Now, it's becoming a business. Which is, of course, the prerogative of the site owners. It's also the prerogative of the community members who add their value to take it to a new community, rather than a business. (By using the word business, I'm not suggesting that people had a problem with the site owners/admins making money to support themselves from the site. I am referring to it being run as a for-profit system that doesn't seem to acknowledge the contributions of everyone. Which has been slowly happening for a long time, this just seems to be the solidification of the piss-filled jello)