07-26-2021, 08:23 PM
(07-26-2021, 03:08 PM)fifteenth Wrote: I know nothing about the economics of online communities. Could someone actually make more money by running a Mavs message board than by being paid to be a journalist?
Nope but the message board helped drive traffic to the website just like Twitter. He did have a premium service too which brought in some revenue. I bet his ad rev from Google ads wasn't bad at all. I mean we were refreshing those ads non-stop.
The thing with SI is they I am sure offered a stable income in exchange for pumping out content and Fish did the math and here we are. It's sad. The thing that frustrates me the most is he could have still ran a board loosely affiliated with the website imo without breaking some contract. I don't think he tried hard enough or thought they could slap something together on SI's crufty system.