There is a valid underlying point to DrSlops post - the VN board (which most of us here have all but abandoned) would regularly make changes - drastic changes - w/o any prior warning their customers (formerly us).I say "customers" because it was our traffic (and click-throughs on ads) that was making them money.
This board is a bit different, in a couple aspects:
1. I'm not making any money on it - directly*
2. We seem to have lost the incessant whiners and spammers that frequented the VN boards
3. We have a *moderator*
Luckily, I have not had to do any real "moderating" or real work, or I probably would have shucked this whole thing and chalked it up to "good idea, bad judgement".
But, as I eluded to: I feel a certain amount of responsibility to notify everyone that there is a planned change. And I am always interested in hearing ideas on how to make the board better. I'm not interested in getting into any discussions of which changes make sense or not.
* "I'm not making any money on it - directly"
Means, yes, it is like free advertising to be able to include a link to my shareware site and maybe drive some Chips and Bits sales through my site, but we don't have banners ... yet.
I stated at the beginning that I may add banners to help defray the cost of running the board, if it became costly. As of yet (about 6 months have passed now), I still see no need, but things are changing. Since this board's inception, the traffic on my site has run at about 300MB per week. Lately it has jumped up to about 500MB per week. I am also coming to the end of my ISP and web hosting contracts and want to look for more cost effective alternatives - which yes, could mean maybe more changes.
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