The history of Toasty

[Duck-Stew]

They put all of NMC into one thread. Can't remember the name but Scott R. Nelson started the thread they merged it into and it's something like 8500 pages long...

So, in other words....it's like 10 days from being 86'ed.  Stupid VS-mofo's.  Eh, whatever....  We have our cool new clubhouse (kicks feet up on desk....)

[Grampa]

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[herm]

They put all of NMC into one thread. Can't remember the name but Scott R. Nelson started the thread they merged it into and it's something like 8500 pages long...

its something like........."Question for the admin........" think it might have been locked as well 

[Ash]

what a bunch of uncle-make the beast with two backsers

[Randimus Maximus]

some toaster terrorist has him

so you are finally admitting to Toasty's existence?

[ducpainter]

so you are finally admitting to Toasty's existance?

no...

just stating the reported facts.

[MendoDave]

I wonder how much they paid for that site. They have just gone and ruined the whole thing. They should probably start over from scratch at this point.

[Ash]

I wonder how much they paid for that site. They have just gone and ruined the whole thing. They should probably start over from scratch at this point.

ya know i was thinking about that this morning... i find it comical.  they REALLY fubared their investment.  and it was a potentially lucrative one!  incomplete business analysis.  arrogant tactics.  hope they learn from their mistakes.

[Rameses]

hope they learn from their mistakes.

I don't.

[Kaveh]

I wonder how much they paid for that site. They have just gone and ruined the whole thing. They should probably start over from scratch at this point.

They are not making money directly off the members, or amount of posts.  As long as the big mego-mart advertisers are paying VS, VS doesn't care about the content of that board.  

They (VS) had 2 main choices:

1) leave the DML for the most part the way it was, maybe make a little bit of changes that the community wouldn't be upset by.  Downside is that VS wouldn't make as much $$ in advertising.

2) make the beast with two backs up the DML by putting a shit-load of ads everywhere and making a bunch more $$ than the DML was making before.  Downside is that the community would get pissed and leave, advertising $$ will go down in the future, but advertisers probably entered a contract so $$ should be good for a year or so (my guess at how long the sponsoring contracts are)

As long as VS makes more money the first year than VS paid for the DML, they came out on top, financially.  It costs VS almost nothing to run the DML, a Internet connection, server, a shitty under-paid admin that oversees 10 sites a day  

*I* think VS sucks sweaty monkey sack because they craped on my favorite website, but it's not that bad of a business plan,  they are making a ton of money.

[herm]

HEY!

there are already 11tybillion threads about VS and TOB.
cant we just keep this one on the subject of the mythical toaster?

[Kaveh]

my bad 

[TLO]

The Toaster requires cleansing after coming so close to the Capitalist Pigs from VS.
It will be purified with bleach and a double rinse cycle.

[Howie]

NO MACHINE!  HAND WASH TOASTY!

[Speedbag]

Just don't rub the signatures too hard, lest ye be flogged with a broken timing belt.