What happened at snowest
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JoHNI_T
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Red Mtn Riders
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Lots of reading here.... https://www.snowandmud.com/forum/f76/sw-goes-pay-better-make-some-26746.html
Not much point in rehashing it. The subject has been beat to death all over the internet.
Not much point in rehashing it. The subject has been beat to death all over the internet.
OverBore
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The same thing can happen at any site. It takes money to operate and snowest wanted to recover the gap between advertsing revenue and operating cost. Simple business math.
Red Mtn Riders
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Uhhhhh...pretty sure they failed at that. They did however manage to chase out most of the quality contributors.
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Then get back over there and leave us jackazz's be........
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This is a ways from the truth, if it was that simple, people wouldn't have bailed in a wholesale fashion. For anyone who has really looked into the situation, there is plenty of testimony to suggest that the current advertisers were bringing in plenty to cover the cost and then some.
So... the people who contributed to the site for years that feel its not appropriate to pay to help others, and to benifit from other members doing the same are jackazz's? Theres far more to peoples decisions then just that obviously, but to each their own. Hopefully for your sake, at least a few of the contributing members decide to stick around the site.
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sorry didnt see the other thread on here about this stuff. nothing else need be said 
The whole pay thing probably could have been handled better. They never had a vendor policy, anyone could post whatever they wanted to sell including shops. This should have been the first option IMO. There is way more quality tech info on that site, mostly due to it being around so long and being the first dedicated mountain forum.
Trinity Taz
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All one has to do to understand snowest's greed is to do simple math:
As of last November there was about 65 advertisers, all paying between 250-1000 month for their ads.
Ads run between 6-8 months.
= approximately $200,000 +
Their "legitimate cause" for going paysite was to purchase $30,000 worth of servers.
You do the math before saying anything stupid like "they are only trying to weed out the jackazzes".
Wake up and STOP FUNDING THE MORMON CHURCH!
As of last November there was about 65 advertisers, all paying between 250-1000 month for their ads.
Ads run between 6-8 months.
= approximately $200,000 +
Their "legitimate cause" for going paysite was to purchase $30,000 worth of servers.
You do the math before saying anything stupid like "they are only trying to weed out the jackazzes".
Wake up and STOP FUNDING THE MORMON CHURCH!
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snowest is like the titanic
I think a lot of it had to do with the censoring of posts as well,
the pay for play just kind of topped it off...It's too bad, I met
a lot of good people through SW, learned a lot, bought some stuff,
etc...There are still a lot of good guys there, a lot like me are kind
of waiting to see....I know so far a lot of the good technical tips
are not showing up and there is definately not the amount of use as
in the past....
I'll keep watching and see where all my bud's end up and go there...
the pay for play just kind of topped it off...It's too bad, I met
a lot of good people through SW, learned a lot, bought some stuff,
etc...There are still a lot of good guys there, a lot like me are kind
of waiting to see....I know so far a lot of the good technical tips
are not showing up and there is definately not the amount of use as
in the past....
I'll keep watching and see where all my bud's end up and go there...
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