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come clean...and find support
Authored by: alec kinnear on Sep 11, '04 01:15:56AM

i think the problem we the community had with contributing was that we thought as you had a successful, best-seller mac os x hints book out of the site, that you were sated apart from bandwidth.

therefore the impetus to contribute became less, rather than more. "rob got his book, rob's doing okay".

had you come clean and said, at the end of the day i earned $5000 from the book (or $10,000, or $20,000 or whatever the fee was) and the site is still costing me 20 hours/week of work, and i need more money if i we are to keep going in the expanded form (with popularity there are more posts to review and more posts edit and more comments to keep track of) - had you done this in an open and truthful way - i am sure you could have reaped many times the benefits you hope to gain with these futile and poorly paid banner ads.

it's probably not too late. approach us like a community. tell us what the numbers are and what you need from us.

i am sure you would find the support you need.

and you would not be defacing the clear realisation of the sparkling vision for this site that you first had three years ago.

grafitti from microsoft on macosxhints.com, rob?

come on, you can't be happier about that than i am.



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come clean...and find support
Authored by: kirkmc on Sep 11, '04 10:38:54AM

I like how people think that authoring a single book brings fortune... I'm a Mac book author, with about 8 books so far (as sole or co-author). I'm not rich, by a longshot. Rob didn't get rich from his book either...



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