I can't believe a thread like this has devolved to users taking pops at each other and the mods, while mods ban people for making pretty harmless jokes. A dude just made $4.5 million off of your collective asses, and you're still going after each other! Jaysus.
Normally when an OP bails out of a backfire thread this place has the decorum to direct it's ire in the appropriate direction: At the dipshit OP.
Hey OP, just checking if you were planning on coming back and answering any of the other questions that have come up since?
People are very curious about why MOBA Network were the "best fit", given the state of their other message boards and their ties to online casinos? The fact that "Any post regarding sexuality, gender identity, ethnicity or women's rights to bodily autonomy is regardless of context considered a "forbidden topic" on an equal level with posting graphic violence gore images and is encouraged to be reported immediately for moderation." is stated policy for them wasn't a problem for you?
There are also questions around why a sale was the "best way to secure the future of the site", since it seems like no investment was needed or will be made given the massive profitability of the existing model. Couldn't the ownership have been transferred in a way that took the burden off of you without placing the forum in the hands of a for-profit business? Were alternative arrangements even considered?
Then we come to GDPR compliance, and whether the handling of user's data has met the standards required when a sale like this occurs? I mean I'm sure all the due diligence required was done, right?
Of course there's also the question of what sort of person you have to be to take this kind of massive payday while leaving the engineers who helped you to make it in the lurch, without even hooking them up with contracts to work for the new owners? I mean what kind of shit is that, really?
Maybe you could also add some additional details to your first post, like the press release from MOBA Network, or any of the news articles that have covered this. Just little things like the price tag, and the ongoing profits, and the plans to make more money from more ads in the future, just those little bits.
Normally when an OP bails out of a backfire thread this place has the decorum to direct it's ire in the appropriate direction: At the dipshit OP.
I know there will probably be a lot of questions about this so I'm going to try to answer as many of the big ones as possible here and now:
Hey OP, just checking if you were planning on coming back and answering any of the other questions that have come up since?
People are very curious about why MOBA Network were the "best fit", given the state of their other message boards and their ties to online casinos? The fact that "Any post regarding sexuality, gender identity, ethnicity or women's rights to bodily autonomy is regardless of context considered a "forbidden topic" on an equal level with posting graphic violence gore images and is encouraged to be reported immediately for moderation." is stated policy for them wasn't a problem for you?
There are also questions around why a sale was the "best way to secure the future of the site", since it seems like no investment was needed or will be made given the massive profitability of the existing model. Couldn't the ownership have been transferred in a way that took the burden off of you without placing the forum in the hands of a for-profit business? Were alternative arrangements even considered?
Then we come to GDPR compliance, and whether the handling of user's data has met the standards required when a sale like this occurs? I mean I'm sure all the due diligence required was done, right?
Of course there's also the question of what sort of person you have to be to take this kind of massive payday while leaving the engineers who helped you to make it in the lurch, without even hooking them up with contracts to work for the new owners? I mean what kind of shit is that, really?
Maybe you could also add some additional details to your first post, like the press release from MOBA Network, or any of the news articles that have covered this. Just little things like the price tag, and the ongoing profits, and the plans to make more money from more ads in the future, just those little bits.
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