Now what, I'm addicted to methadone

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Vasix

Monday, October 30, 2000 - 06:40 am Click here to edit this post
Okay, now I'm .

Big Brother was like heroin. I got hooked fast. And bad. Affected my job. My friends. Then: Boom! Withdrawal.

This game comes along. Methadone. Get me over the BB withdrawal. Now this game is ending. And I'm hooked.

Bsides getting a life (I never was crazy about my job and my friends are all hooked on methadone), does any one have any ideas?????


Signed,

Will Work For Posts

Whit4you

Monday, October 30, 2000 - 08:06 am Click here to edit this post
Vasix, didn't wanna start a "dicsussion" in the challenge thread. But I am wondering why you say this IS a commericial site? That implies the folks running it are making a profit from it? Heck I can't even find banners anymore around here to click on!

Drdude

Monday, October 30, 2000 - 09:17 am Click here to edit this post
Dear Vasix, let's get you into a detoxification center, STAT!!!

Vasix

Monday, October 30, 2000 - 09:29 am Click here to edit this post
Whit: the site has advertising. SO I assume its a money making venture and not pure pro bono. Granted it may be low paying and not profitable but its a business. And the game was set up for the posters to have fun with it but also its a way to draw more registered users and more hits to the site. I don't know much about how the site ad revenues work but I assume the advertisers look to see howmany hits or users a site has to determine their value of their ads. There are pop up ads aren't there? I see them when I log on to the site.

I've had a ball and I'm glad the site's running of the game attracted all us "outsiders". I'd have never been here except for the game so it got my registering!

Its been fun, loved posting with you and having fun bantering back and forth. People may get all wound up about Vykin but he has certainly posted great stuff, got all of us posting about whatever brouhaha was cuased and increased the number of users to the site and definitely increased the hits to the site. I bet the Hosts are delighted. Look at the THOUSANDS of posts: its truly amazing.

Keep posting and keep having fun. VIVA TVCLUB!

Karuuna

Monday, October 30, 2000 - 09:58 am Click here to edit this post
Well, there's Reality Run coming up on November 13th, for one week. Live internet feeds and I understand they have a tv contract in the works.

With all of us dedicated live feed watchers, I'll bet we could win the 10 grand -- we just need someone in San Francisco to make the nab....

Whit4you

Monday, October 30, 2000 - 11:48 am Click here to edit this post
Vasix I guess Neil could answer this question. I do see a "ad??" for bomis.com on the main page when I go to the main page (which is rare) but I have to assume that's required in order for Neil to house all this stuff on bomis's server.

For a while I saw a banner for NBC on here - I would click on it once in a while but as far as I know you don't exactly make a killing off of hits on banner ads.

I personally doubt that they've even made enough off of the few dozen folks like me who did take the time to hit the banner ads now and then - to even defray expenses.

Personally I would have no problem if they are making $$ keeping hundreds of us entertained, especially since they are not charging US for it.

I think they should concider a game II with unlimited votes per registered user

.50 cents per vote via Pay Pal :)

Then we can't whine about someone stacking the votes - if they want their player to win enough to spend 20 bucks on it well let em .....money talks :)

At any rate - even if Neil is making a profit somehow off of those ads your mentioning... he could probably make more of a profit time wise picking up tin cans on the side of the highway :)

Whit

Vasix

Monday, October 30, 2000 - 11:54 am Click here to edit this post
Whit: yes Neil certainly can make more money somewhere else but the secret of life is finding something you are passionate about and letting the bills get paid with that. I like your pay per vote thing but its a regressive tax, that is it hurts the poorer folks more than the rich folks. Plus some of these folks sound like they'd spend the rent money to get their person in. So I don't know. The email voting helps but still people could have multiple signons. And I never worry about Neil's income, he/she/it seems bright enough to find work anywheres. And if he gets tired of taking care of us,he can find another job in the Daycare industry! :)

Wcv63

Monday, October 30, 2000 - 02:20 pm Click here to edit this post
Actually both Neil and Lisa have REAL jobs and this board is a hobby. My understanding is that he pays all server costs etc thereby allowing his users free access. The time and effort he has allotted to this site has been done at the expense of his own time and money.

I have seen him say that he hates advertising banners and does not want them on his site. The banners that were coming up were for his server and for the chat rooms he uses (free chat as he was trying to avoid paying to house one on his server). However he is now looking to upgrade and buy what he needs to house a chat on his server. Whether he is looking to do the same thing with a polling program I don't know. But keep in mind that these are personal expenses not defrayed in any way by dues or advertising banners.

I think what began as a fun little hobby exploded on him to become the monster it is today. Once again, that you Neil and Lisa for sharing your hobby with us.

Noslonna

Thursday, November 02, 2000 - 11:41 am Click here to edit this post
Vasix, methadone has a high dependency potential - withdrawal can be worse with methadone than with heroin.