Poster Filtering

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

In response to #msg-909111

IDCC is BY FAR your most prolific board

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=1125
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=274
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=299
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=307
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=504
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=485

It's a prolific board, but please don't present as fact that which is easily verified not to be.

If you examine your "most recent subscribers" listed on your home page, most of these have in fact posted for months before subscribing

Most of those people are renewals; not new subscribers. You couldn't know this, so no ribbing about unverifiable facts on this one.

so you need to keep the experience rich for the new and free users, for the long term benefit of your business

Your whole argument can be moved into the auto industry like this:

"Ford needs to give free Pintos to everyone who stops by a dealership. Not only free, but very loaded with features. Leather seats. Cruise. AC. That will motivate people to buy Lincoln Towncars."

The "experience" here for free members is already quite rich. That's an important part of our business model. To offer a rich feature-set for free, but to reserve the most desirable and most expensive (in terms of the computing power and bandwidth needed to provide them) features for paying members and to charge a reasonable and affordable price for them.

The money for our new $8k database server isn't growing on a tree in my yard.

Edit: The vast majority of the people you cite "needing" Filtering and for whom the site is otherwise worthless will never subscribe, even if they could do so at a fraction of the going price.

Many people just feel way too "entitled" when it comes to internet content, and you're one of them. Everything should be free, without regard for the fact that it costs somebody something. The dot-com climb of the late 90's is largely to blame for that.