"We are all guest at the dinner table and the gracious host can remove us out any time."
This forum has been replete with comments like the one above. Yes, I suppose we could be considered guests, but remember, we are invited and sought after guests at this dinner party. Anyone who thinks that this forum is a nice add on to this site due to the magnanimity of management is naive and maybe just fell off the turnip truck. I could be wrong, but do you really think so?
Think about the business model here. I am not at all intimately familiar with the owners/mangement of this operation, but it seems clear that their income is dependent primarily on two things. One, revenue they receive from the sale of items listed by sellers and two, income derived from advertisers.
What this means is that Audiogon wants and needs us here. If you and I come here to discuss audio matters, it is likely that we might look at classified ads and possibly buy or sell. Of equal or more importance is the numbers we contribute to site traffic. If, as the owner of a site like this, I want to sell my income opportunity to a prospective advertiser, I have to convince them that their ad will get exposure, based on large traffic numbers. If I can cite large numbers, it obviously makes my site more appealing to the advertisers as their product is viewed by more possible customers.
So please don't feel guilty about complaining about the way things are here, You and I should be catered to at this dinner party, because the hosts want us to come back again. I'm only guessing, but it seems to me that forum traffic is less than it has been in the past. I hope I'm wrong, I think of this forum as a port in the storm and hope it does well.
Any side bets if and/or when this post or thread gets deleted?