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Originally posted by apoklyptk
But you've got to ask yourself, why is it that the banned cannot let go of GFY and move elsewhere, to invite a handful of good friends over and start a revolution of sorts? A lack of faith?
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It's so simple that most people miss it.
Movement.
When you're bored at 3 in the morning while uploading pictures, rendering video, or just taking a break, where's the one place you can go where someone is guaranteed to be awake and posting something new? GFY.
Quiet, it's strange to see that you're disillusioned after so long a stay. Did you honestly believe that GFY was ever anything more than an advertising vehicle?
Train wrecks bring pageviews. Pageviews bring advertisers. Simple math.
Lens allows Amp to keep sticking his foot in his mouth here. He allows "house accounts" where anyone can become an anonymous coward and start shit with someone they wouldn't dare mouth off to in their normal nick.
Serge allows Confucy to keep sticking her foot in her mouth at Oprano - and as a plus, won't enable the ignore function... brilliance. People are forced to read things that will incite them and invoke a response.
*shrugs*
Don't hate the players, hate the game. This is what the boards - ALL of the boards - have always been about, even if they *claim* that they are really there to help you, teach you, give you a 'safe place to discuss business', etc. If you don't believe it, then you need to take off the rose-colored glasses.
It's all about the bottom line.