Yahoo Horse Board dead?

[andicap]

So what happened over there? I get the idea Yahoo had something to do with it judging by the email message from E. to boycott Yahoo.

[smf]

Maybe they c/ move the act over to ghosttowncappers.com, Andicap. That way they can get more than a dozen views on a thread over there now. :cool:

[FortuneHunter]

Yahoo, changed the message board format. They "Spammed" it up good. Way to slow and terribly unfriendly. It was truly awful. So the regulars gave up, the clones disappeared. Too bad, it was great fun, trash and cash. This too shall pass.

FH

[Tom]

Corporate whores. Nothing more.
Yahoo is run by corporate whores.

Tom

[Dick Schmidt]

Yeah, the nerve of them wanting to show a profit! Get used to it guys, the days of the high-flying, "new economy" internet sites that wanted bodies on the site and the heck with the money are gone and hopefully will never return. The "new economy" took a lot of people down with it. It's like network TV: if you want to see the shows you have to sit through the ads. If you don't want the ads, then get HBO or pay per view. One way or another everything has to be paid for.

Dick

[GameTheory]

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[Lefty]

Funny thing, I've never been offended by ads. If i'm not interested just X 'em out. Prob. explains why I only watch free tv and don't opt for cable ot satellite.

[Tom]

Originally posted by Dick Schmidt
Yeah, the nerve of them wanting to show a profit! Get used to it guys, the days of the high-flying, "new economy" internet sites that wanted bodies on the site and the heck with the money are gone and hopefully will never return. The "new economy" took a lot of people down with it. It's like network TV: if you want to see the shows you have to sit through the ads. If you don't want the ads, then get HBO or pay per view. One way or another everything has to be paid for.

Dick

Pay per views now regularly feature commercials. And yea, I agree, everything has to be paid for...everything. One way or another. Product boycotts are one form of payment. There are worse.
C'est live!

Tom :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[andicap]

Sorry Tom, but you're mistaken. Pay-per-view has NO commercials. That's one area I'm an expert in. Premium channels like HBO also don't run ads -- just promos. PPV has promos for the movies it sells -- like trailers in the theaters -- but that's not a commercial the way PBS has commercials now.

I agree with Dick. While I'm no fan of any of the Internet companies who came out with fanciful business models which failed miserably -- Yahoo is making it up on the fly since the advertising model didn't work, but at least the company has survived. Christ, give them credit for that. But Yahoo is hardly a corporate whore in the way that AOL has become. (But of course Yahoo will eventually be sold to a conglomerate, which will dumb down all of the products to the lowest common denominator so they don't offend anyone.)
I don't know why Yahoo made the changes it did, but that's a company that's just trying to survive, not making millions by exploiting anyone or charging outrageous fees or polluting the environment or anything like that.

[MikeDee]

Has yahoo closed down all of the discussion groups? I used to read the boards for Magna and Youbet stock regularly but they are gone as well:confused:

[Lefty]

And another reson I refuse to pay for cable or whatnot: they say pay us $40-60 mo. and get all this good stuff. Oh, wait, sorry, the really good stuff is pay per view.
A TV guide poll once asked people would you pay per view to watch the Superbowl or World Series. Most of the dumbasses said yes. The answer should be a resounding NO! If you say yes, then you will get that opportunity.

[Tom]

andicap,
I bought Wrestlemania last weekend and it was filled with commercials.

And I agree with you that Yahoo is just trying to survive. So are street whores. I just don't see a difference between the two.
Big business today is in trouble because it is run by idiots fueled by greed. Look at Enron, Global Crossing, Xerox, K Mart .....
pathetic management teams with no long term goals - looking at the short term instead of the future. I have been through two bankruptcies in 10 years and I see the exact same thing happening all over again. Take the case of Xerox - a giant amoung morons. The stock plummets, so what do they do?- sell off asssets and lay off workers. Gee, I sure hope they got rid of all those assests that screwed up the stock! And all those line workers that made those bad managment decisions. Kodak, once worshipped in the Rocherster, NY area, is now a joke. Why is it that when a company needs its workers, they are a "team", but when the management screws up, they cut the team players and keep the idiots?
So I think the term whore better describes what we are dealing with - businessman or executive seems to be not really missed the target.
JMHO, but I could be wrong.

Tom

:p

[ranchwest]

Yahoo has eliminated "clubs". All clubs are now "groups".

[andicap]

Tom,
I would guess -- having never seen Wrestlemania -- that the ads were for other Vince McMahon properties. If not, I stand corrected, but that's certainly the exception on PPV. BTW, the McMahon empire is in deep trouble.

I agree 100% with your political analysis.
And you sound exactly like Al Gore did in his campaign, BTW.

[Tom]

Originally posted by andicap
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I agree 100% with your political analysis.
And you sound exactly like Al Gore did in his campaign, BTW. [/B]




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