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Old 03-29-2004   #1
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if 30% votes YES,
MikeAI, let's close the board

please have it pinned for 24 hours
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Instead of closing it, just give your share of ownership, and I will take over for you.
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well fuck me running!! those numbers suck. If I thought Serge was serious I'd be worried


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Board not busy = people actually working.

Click volume on my ads seem fine. Don't close it till my prepaid ads run out.. haha..
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Board not busy = people actually working.

Click volume on my ads seem fine. Don't close it till my prepaid ads run out.. haha..
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can I just make a quickie announcement before you close ?
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nah - you all don't censor/edit posts and it's not filled with a bunch of gallery puppies. Some of us still haven't shaved our way to absolute financial freedom yet so we gotta work.

Besides, who wants to read what a bunch of people whoring their sigs out have to say...it's too easy to call them idiots and not really much fun.
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over 20 views to post ratio in 2 hours?

NOT bad
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over 20 views to post ratio in 2 hours?

NOT bad
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because it is a poll, i imagine
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Serge-
do you know how to do anything BUT start drama?
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Serge notice the IPs of the people voting yes?


If you close Oprano, I will have to re-open ynottoppond.com!!

I would much rather not have sig whore and paid posters on a board, I do not have time to read through all the garbage.
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more importantly - selling the drama


and to love: a god
and to fear: a flame
and to burn a crowd that has a name

and to right or wrong
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it is known, just scream it from the wall

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do you know how to do anything BUT start drama?
yes..
I cook, clean (very limited), can be decent travel guide, assuming tips are good, I am not cheap,
and can walk you thru 1/2 of the museums of europe and americas...

what did I win?
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Serge notice the IPs of the people voting yes?


If you close Oprano, I will have to re-open ynottoppond.com!!

I would much rather not have sig whore and paid posters on a board, I do not have time to read through all the garbage.
no, I didn't...I am on vacation and have 6 NO's by proxy, not posted yet:#MikeW, Meat, LL, Aga, Joe, Fred

...so,,,YES voters should add more votes,
PLEASE, I need a rest, mofo's!
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If you close Oprano, I will have to re-open ynottoppond.com!!
I liked YnotTopPond!
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no, that's not it....

check other polls on other oprano pages, other boards polls, it ain't it.
well, from a quick search for polls on Oprano, these were the view to post ratios I found;

32:1
13:1
28:1
20:1
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Hell no Serge, we will never close down Oprano!!!!

I love the biz talk here, the politics and even for me a few laughs

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Serge when you were gone
and I was posting cuz you are paying me
i accounted for 30% of the posts
without me
there would be maybe 80 posts a day
that does suck
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At the time of this reply there are 10 votes to close and 25 to keep open

so, that begs the question.
Who are these people who want the board closed down? Which begs this question.
Why the fuck are they here?
You are a confused in-duh-vidual* if you dislike the site enough to want it to close down, but still feel the need to be here............
I mean whut the fuck.............then leave!!
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Big no vote from me! I enjoy this place!!
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As long as you have the sponsors to pay for it & the time to run it......
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Serge when you were gone
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i accounted for 30% of the posts
without me
there would be maybe 80 posts a day
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One of the few boards that keep me sane.

Though lately, I've been spending less time at GFY. It's really useless over there. Other than clicking the licks for "Would you hit it", I don't have much interest.

I'd rather stare at Serge's goat.
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Same here Anthony.

Pretty useless over there.
Not to mention...even the "Would you hit it" threads have become pretty lame lately too.
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how come I can't vote on the poll?
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Business wise, pretty much all of the boards are dead. Some gets done now and again, but pretty much it is relax time to trade stories and BS about politics, the weather, announce births, weddings, etc. If anyone from 1997 or 98 teleported to this future, they would surely be VERY disappointed by what they see.

Taken as a break during the day, no chat board is bad. As a business choice (for webmasters and sponsors) I think the boards as a whole are very over rated.

IMHO, of course.

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how come I can't vote on the poll?
Youve been socially engineered!
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polls with low number of posts are statistically meaningless...

how many posts the other polls had?
more than this thread did when you made your comment on how good the ratio was.
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how come I can't vote on the poll?
Did you click the "view the results" button before you tried to cast a vote?
I did, and now it doesn't give me the option to vote (I wasn't going to anyway but it might be why *you* can't vote).
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Do not close this board.

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actually this is true...I wanted to have 50/50 as a result,
the sign of HEALTHY board.
The boards which are:
you cool, me cool, we cool, etc
are BORING boards with no chance of susvival....
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I voted yes just to see if you guys would do it :P
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I voted yes just to see if you guys would do it :P
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http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_...&url=oprano.com

Survey says... traffic is going back down to the normal levels...

Serge, don't go on any more trips... it screws up the stats here!

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ok, 24 hours has passed, people has spoken,
this board will be closed on Thursday,
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which Thursday?

Thursday, May 21, 2009?
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which Thursday?

Thursday, May 21, 2009?
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Hmmm... is this the last 24 hours of Oprano? Or just another silly April Fool's joke in an attempt to boost page views?

Serge?

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Hmmm... is this the last 24 hours of Oprano? Or just another silly April Fool's joke in an attempt to boost page views?

Serge?

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Alex, it's bad when you start double guessing yourself...

didn't you post alexa chart yesterday which showed Oprano in the pits?

time to pull the plug....if you don't believe your own observations,
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Business wise, pretty much all of the boards are dead.
Taken as a break during the day, no chat board is bad. As a business choice (for webmasters and sponsors) I think the boards as a whole are very over rated.
I don't know what anyone else is doing but I just don't understand whenever anyone says this. There are countless times in the past year when I've done business with someone I've "met" through a board.

To tell you the truth, MOST of our business exists because of the boards.

Also, there is a LOT of information to be gleaned from the boards in between all the water cooler talk. Lots of gems out there.
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