UPDATE: Beyond and Bilge Talkback Topic - General Tiki

T TheMuggler Tiki Socialite Brooklyn, NY Joined: Mar 26, 2002 Posts: 293	T TheMuggler Posted posted on Thu, Sep 1, 2005 11:56 PM On 2005-09-01 22:09, tikichic wrote: I personally would love to see TC be a paid site. This would have the people that are really die hards to come and communicate and possibly cut down on the multiple ids and slandering posts. I think $24 for a GM is quite a deal and that is why I've been a GM from day one. Before I became a GM, I came to TC daily and read the topics and threads, gained valuable information and found out what events were happening. In my eyes, I thought it was a bargain to pay $24 for a GM and only fair to give back to Hanford/TC as much as this site has given me. So much knowledge is given here that it's a small price to pay. I think it's important to realize that Tiki Central is a facilitator, not the source of all this incredible information. The sources of all this "valuable information" are the people who are members of the community, both GM's and non-GM's. Eliminate all the non-GM's and you might very well be destroying the very thing you are so willing to pay for. A few people have said they'd like to see TC become a fully paid site but no one has actually put forth a good reason why they feel this would improve TC, which makes me think these responses are just emotional reactions or flame bait. Nevermind the fact that the individual authors of all these posts on TC actually own the intellectual property to their posts so suddenly charging for access to that information could create a legal quagmire. God forbid major contributors decided they didn't want someone making money off of posts they had written under the assumption that they were making this information available on a publicly open forum and then suddenly demanded their posts be deleted forever. Obviously I don't believe that's where this is going but I do think it's important to realize that while TC has blossomed into a vibrant community under Hanford's guidence and financial support (during the years before the GM program, at the very least), TC started on Yahoo and would cease to exist without the involvement of the community. And please don't misread this as any kind of slight to Hanford -- I am absolutely grateful to him and everyone else who devotes time, resources, and all of this amazing content to keep TC going.

On 2005-09-01 22:09, tikichic wrote:
I personally would love to see TC be a paid site. This would have the people that are really die hards to come and communicate and possibly cut down on the multiple ids and slandering posts.

I think $24 for a GM is quite a deal and that is why I've been a GM from day one. Before I became a GM, I came to TC daily and read the topics and threads, gained valuable information and found out what events were happening. In my eyes, I thought it was a bargain to pay $24 for a GM and only fair to give back to Hanford/TC as much as this site has given me. So much knowledge is given here that it's a small price to pay.

I think it's important to realize that Tiki Central is a facilitator, not the source of all this incredible information. The sources of all this "valuable information" are the people who are members of the community, both GM's and non-GM's. Eliminate all the non-GM's and you might very well be destroying the very thing you are so willing to pay for.

A few people have said they'd like to see TC become a fully paid site but no one has actually put forth a good reason why they feel this would improve TC, which makes me think these responses are just emotional reactions or flame bait. Nevermind the fact that the individual authors of all these posts on TC actually own the intellectual property to their posts so suddenly charging for access to that information could create a legal quagmire. God forbid major contributors decided they didn't want someone making money off of posts they had written under the assumption that they were making this information available on a publicly open forum and then suddenly demanded their posts be deleted forever.

Obviously I don't believe that's where this is going but I do think it's important to realize that while TC has blossomed into a vibrant community under Hanford's guidence and financial support (during the years before the GM program, at the very least), TC started on Yahoo and would cease to exist without the involvement of the community.

And please don't misread this as any kind of slight to Hanford -- I am absolutely grateful to him and everyone else who devotes time, resources, and all of this amazing content to keep TC going.

Post #183800 by TheMuggler on Thu, Sep 1, 2005 11:56 PM