A: None. It's just me, a volunteer part-time developer, and a handful of volunteer moderators and janitors. The volunteers all do an incredible job, and don't get nearly enough credit for their hard work. Hats off to them!
That reminded me of several extended IM logs between moot and a server admin/scripter. Suffice it to say that they both come out sounding like total douchebags and it's difficult to tell who you'd dread working with more. The moral of the story is that he'd be way better off paying his volunteers and acting like a boss.
It's quite long and gets somewhat tedious, once you get the jist it's not really worth stick with. But it is interesting to get a peek inside the mind of a new founder:
> The moral of the story is that he'd be way better off paying his volunteers and acting like a boss.
How do you define "better off"? Do you run a site as popular as 4chan? moot isn't trying to make money or be a kickass, cool, boss. He's just having fun. I think it's a bit presumptuous of you to say you know what's best for moot. 4chan has been running smoothly for years and is extremely popular.
I guess I should have said my takeaway is, instead of the moral of the story. I struggled for what I wanted to write there. If bickering for hours with your dev staff is doing what he wants and having fun then more power to him, but something tells me he'll be managing things differently at canv.as.
Point taken. I know I'm sure glad things from when I was 17 aren't still on the Internet. I had no idea it was that old, I first read it a month ago. Good luck with your new endeavors.
I'm sure Chris has matured a lot in the past few years, and I'm sure he's treating canvas in a very different manner. Does it do good to rehash this old drama?
A: None. It's just me, a volunteer part-time developer, and a handful of volunteer moderators and janitors. The volunteers all do an incredible job, and don't get nearly enough credit for their hard work. Hats off to them!
That reminded me of several extended IM logs between moot and a server admin/scripter. Suffice it to say that they both come out sounding like total douchebags and it's difficult to tell who you'd dread working with more. The moral of the story is that he'd be way better off paying his volunteers and acting like a boss.
It's quite long and gets somewhat tedious, once you get the jist it's not really worth stick with. But it is interesting to get a peek inside the mind of a new founder:
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Talk:Moot#thoughts_on_image...
(note that page is SFW, but I wouldn't go to the main moot page unless 'shopped gay porn is cool with you)