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Respectfully, please explain this to me...I can never quite grasp the mindset.
Why do you expect someone else's labor and resources to pay for your entertainment?
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Quote HistoryQuoted:Quoted:You're right, it's not like they'd make money off users in any other way like ads or emails or data harvesting or anything.
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They definitely need that $24 to pay Amazon, otherwise Brownell’s would go broke.
Respectfully, please explain this to me...I can never quite grasp the mindset.
Why do you expect someone else's labor and resources to pay for your entertainment?
So, let's say a person participated in a forum as a non-paying member and wanted to post pics of a how-to project that was useful and of interest to others. So, they host the images on their own, create a post that generates traffic to the site and let's say becomes popular. Could be a how to for a mod for a gun, a how to on fixing the suspension on a vehicle, a how to on making something, whatever. Then a few months or a year later, that person is participating in another forum and goes in and clears photos from their free hosting site to make room for something else and then all the photos from their original post are gone. Then, people searching for the topic still hit on the post, but it is pretty much useless because the pics are all just red x's.
It happens on a lot of forums as people come and go and it can be a real bummer for a person that was looking for the info only to find a useless post with no photos. It may not be a huge issue here, but it is at other forums and makes the experience rather poor if it happens a lot.
Although it is easy enough to work around it, some people will just choose not to jump that hurdle and may not post something of interest also. I am pretty sure a big part of revenues are ad revenues and if you don't keep users engaged and aren't increasing users or at least maintaining them, ad revenues will eventually suffer, so I guess there is that aspect. I don't care either way what a site does, but the big picture part of it isn't all that hard to see (unless it was hosted on a third party site and subsequently deleted).