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posted by mattie_p on Wednesday February 19 2014, @01:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-really-do-it dept.

By now, you have had the chance to read the updates of both NCommander and Barrabas. Nonetheless, you may still be wondering quite a few things about the site and its staff. Here is your chance to ask us anything. These questions can be general in nature, in which case the staff will select a spokesperson to answer it, or it may be specific to an individual. If the question is for an individual, please ensure you identify that person specifically enough.

We will select the best questions from the thread and provide answers to the community. These questions may not be the highest rated, although we will probably use those first.

In keeping with tradition, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one question per post.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by DarkMorph on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:46PM

    by DarkMorph (674) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:46PM (#2728)
    That is very complex and circumstantial. Definitely no simple answer because in reality there's no way to be sure. Is it necessity, or is it just the interest to acquire supplemental income? Or better yet, maybe it's neither, and it started once advertisers started to approach the webmasters and made offers. Few will turn down "free" money at the expense of simply adding an image here or image there in exchange.

    It wouldn't surprise me if, by now, many sites figure that it's worth a shot, because there's always the chance of acquiring ad-based revenue, whereas if there is no advertisement, there is a guarantee of no such revenue.

    SoylentNews represents the first time I've ever seriously considered donating to contribute to the needs of a news-oriented community. I find what SN stands for to be rather significant. Ironically the redesign of /. spurred the controversy and inspiration to defect yet I think it's more important to acknowledge the freedom by seceeding from the clutches of DICE much more important.
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  • (Score: 1) by buswolley on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:52PM

    by buswolley (848) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:52PM (#2896)

    images. video.
    I bet the hosting cost on SN is not as large as one might think. Very clean.
    However, this disregards the labor of the people maintaining SN. Volunteer labor without compensation is finicky.

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    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by frojack on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:43PM

      by frojack (1554) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:43PM (#2934)

      Exactly.

      Servers do cost money, hosting costs money. And that's all good until you outgrow what can be handled by a single machine, or you exceed the bandwidth that your hosting situation can supply, or you sustain your first DOS attack or something.

      Eventually, you realize you just want to put it all in the cloud somewhere and leave all the hardware and bandwidth issues to someone else. And THAT costs money too. Probably Big money.

      But to remain interested, people have to at least make enough money to do the work even if it is only part-time work.
      Just dealing with a small portion of the users that need help or want to bitch takes time and mental anguish.

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  • (Score: 1) by EvilJim on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:43PM

    by EvilJim (2501) on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:43PM (#3881)

    I don't mind the odd ad here or there, but if allowed, they should only be static images or animated gif's, no java/flash or control by advertising networks who are likely to try to sneak that crap in.