McGregor UFC 223 Rampage -WTF Capps?

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Re: McGregor UFC 223 Rampage -WTF Capps?

Post by Speaker to Animals » Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:16 am

Dan was the one that became a progressive, though. The board didn't change much.

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Re: McGregor UFC 223 Rampage -WTF Capps?

Post by nmoore63 » Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:18 am

DBTrek wrote:Just because we kicked his ass for being a leftist turncoat, SJW-lite, run-of-the-mill anti-Trump talking head, doesn’t mean we didn’t like the guy.

It means we liked him enough to kick his ass when he started to go off the rails.

We’re we wrong? Does he have a bigger audience now? Is he more relevant now? Has shutting down his forum sped up the delivery of his occasional shows by a single hour?

Or is he fading from view, and largely revered for work he cranked out long ago while being a complete non-entity for anything he’s producing today?

Tough love is still love - it’s just tough.
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Do you not think "leftist turncoat, SJW-lite, run-of-the-mill anti-Trump talking head" can be fans of Hardcord History?

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Re: McGregor UFC 223 Rampage -WTF Capps?

Post by nmoore63 » Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:21 am

Speaker to Animals wrote:Dan was the one that became a progressive, though. The board didn't change much.
The board changed a lot.

It was bush bashing all day long when it opened up.

The ratio of users to posts changed significantly.

By the end the vast majority of posts were coming from far fewer users than was the case in say 2012.

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Re: McGregor UFC 223 Rampage -WTF Capps?

Post by Speaker to Animals » Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:22 am

nmoore63 wrote:
Speaker to Animals wrote:Dan was the one that became a progressive, though. The board didn't change much.
The board changed a lot.

It was bush bashing all day long when it opened up.

The ratio of users to posts changed significantly.

By the end the vast majority of posts were coming from far fewer users than was the case in say 2012.

It was Bush-bashing during the Bush administration. Obama-bashing during the Obama administration. And it would have been Trump-bashing right now. Nothing changed.

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Re: McGregor UFC 223 Rampage -WTF Capps?

Post by DBTrek » Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:24 am

nmoore63 wrote:Do you not think "leftist turncoat, SJW-lite, run-of-the-mill anti-Trump talking head" can be fans of Hardcord History?
I think they don’t donate to shit, so whether they like your free content or not is irrelevant. They feel entitled to free HH and they’ll take it until they’re bored of it or it costs a nickel. If you say something they don’t like they’ll be the first to publicly crucify you and try to end the livelihood they never helped sustain.

So I guess the short answer would be - who cares what they like? Why would Dan or any businessman care?

Why heave a decade-old fan base over the side of the ship so you can make nice with a bunch of penniless kids looking to take down the successful by accusing them of racism, sexism, anti-semitism, ageism, able-ism, etc, etc.

Stupid move.
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Re: McGregor UFC 223 Rampage -WTF Capps?

Post by nmoore63 » Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:34 am

DBTrek wrote:
nmoore63 wrote:Do you not think "leftist turncoat, SJW-lite, run-of-the-mill anti-Trump talking head" can be fans of Hardcord History?
I think they don’t donate to shit, so whether they like your free content or not is irrelevant. They feel entitled to free HH and they’ll take it until they’re bored of it or it costs a nickel. If you say something they don’t like they’ll be the first to publicly crucify you and try to end the livelihood they never helped sustain.

So I guess the short answer would be - who cares what they like? Why would Dan or any businessman care?
No one wants to spend all their time defending against stuff they don't even support. You really expect Dan to suffer for a racists, a sexist and a troll? And I certainly don't mean to imply that I was not guilty. I am certain my "words per post" ratio in 2016 was 10% of what it was in 2008.

Heck Dan hasn't done Common Sense in how long? Why SHOULD he have kept paying bandwidth bills on the forum?

The DCF's time had past. Dan never posted there any more, why should he spend $$$ on it? Time to cut losses on an investment that was no longer paying dividends.

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Re: McGregor UFC 223 Rampage -WTF Capps?

Post by DBTrek » Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:42 am

He’s saving the paltry sum required to host a forum.

How have those gains translated into his promised increased productivity?
What does his fan base look like now?

Not good - https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dancarlin.com

Also bad - https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Dan%20Carlin
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Re: McGregor UFC 223 Rampage -WTF Capps?

Post by nmoore63 » Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:48 am

DBTrek wrote:He’s saving the paltry sum required to host a forum.

How have those gains translated into his promised increased productivity?
What does his fan base look like now?

Not good - https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dancarlin.com
Looks up from when he booted our asses in 2016, based on what you just posted.

But regardless, site hits would not be a very good measure of whether or not shutting down the forum was the right decision.

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Re: McGregor UFC 223 Rampage -WTF Capps?

Post by DBTrek » Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:52 am

nmoore63 wrote: Looks up from when he booted our asses in 2016, based on what you just posted.

But regardless, site hits would not be a very good measure of whether or not shutting down the forum was the right decision.
Short term gains that have translated into a long term plummet of over 2500 places in the web rankings. Second link shows he’s appearing less frequently in web searches.

Maybe it was a genius move, but internet metrics suggest the opposite. His site is less visible. Fewer people are looking for him.
/shrug
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Re: McGregor UFC 223 Rampage -WTF Capps?

Post by Speaker to Animals » Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:56 am

Looks like Nick went SJW too.

Screaming racist and sexist doesn't win an argument. Especially when we all know what you really mean is that they question the wisdom of feminism, open borders, and civic nationalism.