Definitely agree. Some of the comments here seem to indicate that the web site is some sort of entitlement and those hard working folks who maintain it are required to somehow service its users or be damned.
If BGG isn't doing it for folks, and they're offended that it's not 100% up and running for them whenever they want because "it's a business and that's why they don't pay any money and just live with the ads", then by all means go to one of its thriving competitor sites and enjoy! So to all you folks: good luck finding a better competing site that's still running (or isn't a ghost town), and good luck hoping anyone will notice your absence. There's nothing compelling about about caring for self-described leeches of resources complaining about the lack of constant resources to bitterly leech. You are owed nothing. On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 10:07:52 AM UTC-8, orionstars wrote: > > In my opinion if you don't like the service/benefit ratio - then stop > using the site completely. You can view ads anywhere. Visit the online > retailers by going right to their site. So delete your BGG account and > don't use any of it's resources anymore. > > If you don't like this freely available, massive, community built with no > financial compensation, platform for OoP game information and launch pad > for new ventures, smart-phone/tablet/computer accessible, creative gaming > resource - bow out. > > (By the way - take the challenge, I did it myself. I stayed off the site > for quite awhile to see if I really made use of it. It didn't take long for > me to run into the issue of not being able to find the rule answers and > variant info Anywhere else. So I'm not talk from a point of ignorance here. > I took a spoonful of my own medicine.) > > On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 10:53:40 AM UTC-6, Travis Sonsalla wrote: >> >> Agreed. This is exactly why I am more than willing to view their >> advertisements but not be a patron. They are a business, and to have such >> a history of repeated unplanned outages comes across as unprofessional. I >> wish BGG the best, but earning my financial patronage will require a >> consistently stable and available site. Just like I would expect from any >> other web site I choose to support financially via subscription or donation. >> >> On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 10:45:22 AM UTC-6, yo wrote: >>> >>> why does this site go down so much considering how much money it makes? >>> no other website that I have visited in the last 10 yrs or so, has this >>> issue. >>> >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bgg_down/-/BxGoBcJSGoYJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down?hl=en.
