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Mar 16, 2018 at 11:26pm
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Edited: March 17, 2018 at 12:03pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: Sustainable, Feasible Interactives
It's interesting to see the 2 sides of Writing.Com discussing this.

Perhaps it's not properly understood that the Interactive side of Writing.Com has always been a non-revenue generating drag on the "actual" Writing.Com site. Interactives being a niche more "gaming" aspect with, well, let's just say for many folks with rather "interesting" reading preferences... compared to the portfolio services and "writing" community that are actually the main "revenue" generating side of Writing.Com.

I hate to say subsidized, but indeed, the non-interactive side has always subsidized the interactive side. Period, no doubts about it, no questions from our end - it's a fact.

The two sides often don't mix and mingle.


While I understand what interactive folks are saying, I’m to the point where I’m saying the same thing, just in different ways.

- For almost 2 decades, interactives have drained resources and money from the site.

- We're no longer interested in allowing interactives to drain resources and money

- If this attempt to rectify that fails and the interactives lose the interest of those draining the resources from the other side of the site, then the site is still ahead as the drain stops.

- If this attempt succeeds, the site is in an overall better place as well.


I think maybe that's what's missed here ???


We're having circular non-ending conversations about this... so here's another way I'll try to explain it:

Someone is slapping you in the face over and over for 18 years.

You say "Thank you" each time they slap you.

One day you stop saying "thank you" after the slaps.

... And then the person is like "Dude, you're not thanking me anymore, I'm going to stop slapping you."

And you're like.... Uh....


*Laugh*


That's a little what this is like.

We've been paying to allow unlimited free access to members to use interactives.

We stopped allowing full and free access to interactives.

Interactive people are like "dude, I'm going to stop using your free resources if you don't give me more free resources."

And we're like "uhhh.."




Happy weekend,
~~SM



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Sustainable, Feasible Interactives · 03-12-18 8:32pm
by Peri
Re: Sustainable, Feasible Interactives · 03-13-18 12:12am
by The StoryMaster
Re: Re: Sustainable, Feasible Interactives · 03-13-18 2:03am
by Whata SpoonStealer
Re: Re: Re: Sustainable, Feasible Interactives · 03-13-18 2:35am
by The StoryMaster
Re: Re: Re: Re: Sustainable, Feasible Interactives · 03-13-18 6:00am
by Whata SpoonStealer
Re: Re: Sustainable, Feasible Interactives · 03-13-18 4:10pm
by Peri
Re: Sustainable, Feasible Interactives · 03-14-18 8:39am
by ruwth
Re: Re: Sustainable, Feasible Interactives · 03-16-18 5:37pm
by marinus18
Re: Re: Re: Sustainable, Feasible Interactives · 03-16-18 10:06pm
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Sustainable, Feasible Interactives · 03-16-18 10:16pm
by marinus18
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sustainable, Feasible Interactives · 03-16-18 10:25pm
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sustainable, Feasible Int... · 03-16-18 10:53pm
by marinus18
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sustainable, Feasible Interactives · 03-17-18 11:38am
by Peri
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sustainable, Feasible Int... · 03-18-18 8:09pm
by Peri
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sustainable, Feasible... · 03-18-18 8:37pm
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