Quote:
Originally Posted by will76
Here is another one that pisses me off. When people say " Its not personal, he just owns the company."
When Company A is doing something really shitty. A lot of people will defend the owner and some how try to say the owner is a good guy but the company is bad. WTF ? the owner is the one profiting off of what his company does. If his company is stealing from your company, then it is fucking personal. No different then him stealing money out of your pocket himself. No fucking different. But people here like to seperate the two. They met the guy a few times and he was nice and bought them drinks so they think he is a great guy but just that his company opperates in a bad way. I have never heard anything more stupid in my life and a lot of people think that way.
|
Its a good idea, Will. Problem is it will be damn near impossible to get it done. Alot of the big program owners here are work off the divide and conquer strategy. An affiliates "union" is one of the few things that could effectively knock them off their high horses and put and end to alot of this bullshit. One person standing in the town square screaming does little good. But 100 people screaming will draw 50 more and now you have 150 people screaming in the town square and the power of a group cannot be overstated. They know it, too. So they do their best to always keep us divided along all kinds of lines.
One thing I worry about with a union like this is the fact that if the wrong people get ahold of leadership posts or steering committees, it becomes a another tool for those people to wield as a weapon to lock their foes out of the industry or put them at a disadvantage. Then there is the fact that some people simply cannot set aside their extreme hatred for certain people and on their shit list long enough to do anything. They become alot like abortion-issue voters who vote solely on a candidate's abortion stance, discounting everything else. Both types of people destroy efforts to build consensus and get things done. They do not mind tanking a cause for their own personal gain nor do they have the best interests of the industry in mind.
The best thing to do would be for those of us who actually give a shit about this industry to sit down somewhere and come up with a game plan. We'd need to bring some attorneys, program owners, affiliates, webmasters, porn surfers and a few random assholes not afraid to tell it like it is together somewhere and hold an organization convention. I for one would volunteer to be one of the random assholes. I would NOT use a professional moderator (those guys are never unbiased anyway) but at the start of the meeting we would need to agree to a set of ground rules with which to work by (Roberts Rules of Order would be my suggestion) and to make sure that everyone got a turn and it didn't devolve into a fist fight.
The only way I can see this working is if we form an organization similar to the Better Business Bureau (without the problems THAT org has in the way it handles and processes complaints) that allows companies who meet the organization's open and published standards and pay the fee which supports the whole thing as well as take complaints from anyone who wishes to submit them, investigate them and report findings based on a committee report.
I railed against just this sort of thing less than a month ago on Gay Main Street. But alot has happened since then and this whole thing really has changed my opinion of alot of things around here. We need to flush the toilet.