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Originally Posted by Halx
I'm still puzzled about the poor thought and execution. I don't understand how this concept could have gone any other way and still be.. it.
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Well, for one thing, I never mentioned poor thought and donor funds to suggest that it should be a certain way; my opinion is that
it should never have
been... at all. In the few years I've been here, I've seen multiple pleas for the members of this forum to step up and either (a) donate money to keep it running and/or ad-free or (b) link the site on our own personal blogs and sites to increase traffic. In this last couple of years I've been around, I even saw this effort escalate from a thread to an announcement that I had to confirm I had read by clicking a little button before I was able to access the site. I read the announcement, I clicked, and the couple of times I've had the money in my limited budget, I donated some of my dough.
Now you have created a site that I think is a phenomenally bad idea. It has already distracted me and a number of other members from our regular participation here, and I know that for me personally, it has soured my view of this forum and its creator more than it has done anything to elicit any opinion about the other forum's content. I would have left and not looked back the day this was created if it weren't for the fact that I still value the journals around here, and I would miss the people I like to keep up with. But here I am again, just sort of wondering how everybody will react to the hypocrisy later, when once again an authority figure over here decides that it's time to ask everyone to plug TFP so that we can get more traffic. Sure, no donor funds are being used for that other project, but that was never my concern. I think the traffic is a far more important issue here if we're talking evolution through social interactions. This just reminds me of how the makers of the movie Titanic thought there wasn't enough drama in the real story and had to throw in a torrid romance. Way to pander to the lowest common denominator, I guess.
I don't know how many more times I can say this. Maybe I even sound demanding. Maybe I am demanding something! I'm not sure what I'm after anymore. I don't think you're going to kill the forum just because I think it's a bad idea because it hurts the TFP. You're going to keep having your creative experiments no matter what anybody on the TFP says. I guess I'm just kind of sitting here thinking about when I thought TFP was worth donating to and wishing that I had my 30 beans back.