# Brutal article on Creative Loafing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brutal-article-on-creative-loafing/475985>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 6, 2008, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brutal-article-on-creative-loafing/475985 "2008-12-06T10:42:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2008, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brutal-article-on-creative-loafing/475985/41 "2008-12-09T04:32:01Z")

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Barn? No barn. We have only money for hole.

Now you get in hole. Give us show or you will have sorry.

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**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brutal-article-on-creative-loafing/475985/42 "2008-12-09T14:53:21Z")

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Quote:  
Originally Posted by Silver Fire

> [@](#):
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> Having never been there, I clicked on your link.
> 
> I got a page load error, network timeout, six times.
> 
> I lol’d.
> 
> Yes, I would like to trade one pile of shit message board for another pile of shit message board. Awesome.

featherlou

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> Hm, not exactly a ringing endorsement.

for what it’s worth, I clicked a couple of minutes ago and went straight there…

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brutal-article-on-creative-loafing/475985/43 "2008-12-09T18:40:43Z")

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It just worked perfectly for me, too. Eh, who knows? The internet works in strange ways.

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brutal-article-on-creative-loafing/475985/44 "2008-12-10T02:05:00Z")

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> [@PunditLisa](#):
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> I’m in. Can I pick my title? I’m thinking “Queen of the Damned” has a nice ring to it.

OK, but only if the board can license and sell the ringtone. 🙂

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brutal-article-on-creative-loafing/475985/45 "2008-12-10T02:27:54Z")

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> [@smiling\_bandit](#):
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> Its “worth” depends on a lot of factors, including costs to run it, administration, tax codes and complications, and expected income. Suffice it to say that even today internet business is a sufficiently hazy area as to render any flat number could give meaningless.

Phase 1: Create a virtual forum for nerds to wrangle endlessly about recondite topics while amusing themselves with threads about Klingon proverbs and favorite _Simpons_ quotes.

Phase 2: ???

Phase 3: PROFIT!

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**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brutal-article-on-creative-loafing/475985/46 "2008-12-10T03:26:41Z")

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> [@TFA](#):
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> Alternative newspapers, such as Creative Loafing, had no such excuse. They were complacent, putting more faith in their print sex ads than in tomorrow’s technology.

This sounds very similar to the management of the SDMB before Creative Loafing. Totally complacent, turning this board into a financial drain rather than a viable business model. Ignoring user suggestions in favor of editors whose career was NOT in cyberspace, but rather print space, and had no fucking clue how to make a dime on the Internet.

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