# Ed, you are a damn liar! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 19, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-you-are-a-damn-liar/235299 "2004-03-19T22:28:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-you-are-a-damn-liar/235299/61 "2004-03-25T07:31:42Z")
Regardless of how many active members there are, it’s still costing an average of $20K a year. If there are 2,000 active members, that’s roughly $10/person, yet they’re only charging us $5/person to stick around. Looks to me like the Reader is still footing half the bill for something that benefits me but not them. (Unless, of course, you’d like to explain to us how exactly the Reader benefits from these boards. Like I said earlier, I won’t be offended if you use really little words so I’ll be sure to understand.) ---
**Author:** ![Blown\_Injected](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@Blown\_Injected](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blown_Injected)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-you-are-a-damn-liar/235299/62 "2004-03-25T07:38:11Z")
TCR gets plenty of recognition here and income from banner ads > **[PAGE FRANCE - Chicago Reader](https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/page-france/)** > > Around the time the last Page France record, Hello Dear Wind, came out, bandleader Michael Nau kept complaining to interviewers about getting pegged as a Christian artist just because of some religious imagery in his lyrics that he wasn’t even aware... ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-you-are-a-damn-liar/235299/63 "2004-03-25T07:44:46Z")
You mean the income from the Reader itself? What in the name of God does that have to do with the boards? And while there were apparently banner ads on the boards (not the Reader, but the message boards) for about a month, that was four years ago. So again, how do the message boards themselves benefit the Reader? ---
**Author:** ![Blown\_Injected](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@Blown\_Injected](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blown_Injected)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-you-are-a-damn-liar/235299/64 "2004-03-25T07:50:35Z")
I see a banner ad everytime I come to the SD home page ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-you-are-a-damn-liar/235299/65 "2004-03-25T08:15:18Z")
Do you mean that large blue, red, and yellow thing across the top, that says THE STRAIGHT DOPE, etc.? That’s a _logo_, dipshit, not an ad. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-you-are-a-damn-liar/235299/66 "2004-03-25T08:30:15Z")
I’m closing this thread because we have enough threads about the coming subscription issue. I’ve opened a thread so everyone can talk about it without clogging up the front page of the Pit. Lynn For the Straight Dope [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-you-are-a-damn-liar/235299.md?page=3)