Fezzik's Place gone...

[paperchamp]

Thoughts?? It seems like Fezzik is taking his ball and going home.

[Caldarooni]

I think the way it played out is hilarious.

[ncboiler]

Reasons?

[B00T]

cliff notes

[paperchamp]

Fezzik and the dude from LVA came up with a plan to charge $20 a month for access to the forum and to Fezzik's picks during the NFL season. They said it was to help "weed out" the board fodder. Everyone flipped out and accused Fezzik of turning tout (which he said he would not do). Fezzik got butt hurt and closed the board citing that "it's just not worth his time dealing with all the [censored] on the board".

[dankhank]

when they announced the plan, i posted early in the thread with a one word response of "whatever", which basically meant, i would pay the $20, and that it was not a big deal because the forum was so valuable to me. i posted simply because i knew the thread would be huge and it is fun to respond early in a thread that is huge.

i check back later and see my response was deleted.

fez seems like a great guy but there were enough negative comments on the site that he somehow got totally confused about how people felt, and made a rash decision that i think he and everyone else will look back on as a mistake.

[paperchamp]

The whole thing was bizarre. I wasn't going to pay because I figured many of the forums valuable assets would just go elsewhere. You can't really make people pay when so many others contribute just as much value or more than the guy who runs the site.

[rjp]

Making people pay to post is the opposite of community building.

That's really the problem. Get some people that have too much free time to moderate the forum for free (like a lot of good forums have) and you've got your solution.

I'll host a damn forum for free. It's really not all that costly per month, and even if you've never run an internet business before it won't take you long to find ways of monetizing the site.

[TheRover]

what the [censored] ever. just let me know where cutter and dreamer end up posting.

[hoff21]

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what the [censored] ever. just let me know where cutter and dreamer end up posting.

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