JackRiddler » Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:18 pm wrote:
A pretty deluxe hosting arrangement for hosting two URLs and small sites like this one in the U.S. sets me back like $150 a year. ... It's very minor to your average Westerner, might be the price of a dinner date. For Jeff I am sure it is not at all the case that someone else paying for these tiny "expenses" would be any kind of incentive to maintain the site. I believe you're definitely off in this assessment.
Yes, I'd agree, given the above sum. I thought it would have been a higher amount than that.
JackRiddler » Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:18 pm wrote:
It's pretty clear, also from my communication with him, that Jeff a) wants to keep his URL and b) doesn't want the asspain of managing this board. But he doesn't mind our playing in it at his minor expense.
Judging by his daily FB posts, he would get a lot of heartburn from being involved here. And he does keep himself busy with what seems like more worthwhile shit. If he had taken a role in moderation here, it's pretty certain he would have clamped down on the flooding (and also much of the poison-pill alt-right-type stuff). In fact, we can see that without knowing any of the above. His recent noncommital "leave me alone" post is being radically misinterpreted by the opportunistic, reality-twisting bullshit of AD, SLAD and what shall I call them, Pearjerk? The Jerk Pair? The only substantive message in it was that the flooding should stop.
Bold added. SLAD seems to have doubled down in their egregious SPAM campaign, repeatedly trotting out Jeff's last post as if it justifies her maniacal output. She, along with spook-y AD and JerkyTreed are simply carrying out the mandate of their pushover mod, 82. "All is permitted".
JackRiddler » Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:18 pm wrote:
I expect that $1 per new thread wouldn't make a fuck of a difference. It's half a lottery ticket. It should jump to $199 after the 10th post in a year. Then we'd see if there were hidden money powers at work behind the Flood and Shit In It crew. (Obviously these ruminations are a fantasy.)
It may be worth initiating a GoFundMe campaign to buy out Jeff and re-calibrate forum guidelines to weed out bad actors, particularly those that operate within perceived loopholes.