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...Has anyone ever thought of BUYING TVTropes?
If a mod thinks this thread is importing drama/exporting drama/a powder keg waiting to blow, please feel free to lock
Anyways, I am curious. Has anybody thought of getting a bunch of people to pool together their money and try to buy ownership of TVTropes from Fast Eddie?
It honestly seems like the only way to get him to give up power over it
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSLlZh9yelk
I've had pipe dreams about that. Admittedly, it'd be only so I can overrule him over stuff I personally don't like, but whatevs.
I realize it would take quite a bit of cash, but if everybody pitched in...
...Or if somebody suggested that to SA. That would be hilarious to see. Goons trying to gather money to see how long it takes for Eddie to reach his breaking point and either accept the money or go nuts over SA trying to buy the site
And I'm still in high school and I doubt my parents would lend me their credit card if I said I was trying to buy out a site from a mod I didn't like.Hypothetically, if it happened, the whole shindig would collapse like a house of cards within half a year or so anyway. The new staff would grow disillusioned and bitter, lamenting about how it wasn't as good as in the old days would resurface, spin-off sites would be created and John was a Zombie-shenanigans will ensue.
I don't know if "buy" is quite the right word here. You buy things for a price; the price reflects their market value. What's the value of something that, as far as we know, doesn't make a profit, but just covers its costs?
It would be more a question of, is Fast Eddie ever going to get pissed off enough to give up and hand over to someone else? Well, maybe - but the someone else will probably be Maddy or someone else he knows. I'm not sure all the money in the world would be enough to induce him to hand over to people he probably sees as "the enemy".
And, as I said, financially TV Tropes isn't worth a lot of money anyway.
I don't think flat-out buying tvtropes is going to be a good idea. The Russian Revolution didn't exactly put a good guy in charge, it just replaced a dictator with another dictator.
(Yes, I know that comparing this with the Russian Revolution is kind of ridiculous)
Much less to people who are or have been involved in or connected to drama and drama sources.
I would certainly buy it if I had the money, and after getting unbanned without any repercussions for anyone, I'd give it a bloody much-needed overhaul. Admin policy, bugfixing, interface repair, and everything else that needs sorting out.
...Why do I hear laughter?
Shows how much you knew.
If you can't even be bothered to skim a Wikipedia article on the subject, don't bother talking about it like you know what happened.
Guess which category you fall under.
The February revolution replaced the monarchy with a democratic government. Unfortunately that government was both so weak it was entirely dependent on popular support and also supported staying in WWI. This provoked support for the Bolsheviks, which lead to the October revolution, replacing the democratic capitalist government with a less-than-democratic communist government which promised to immediately exit the war.
However the monarchists weren't entirely gone, and the Bolsheviks really only had military control over the capital, which lead to the Russian Civil War wherein the White army and Russia's former war allies united to attempt to keep (red) Russia in the war. They failed, Bolsheviks won, and the Soviet Union continued in a more-or-less non-bad matter until about Lenin's death. Then Stalin was horrible, but that was WELL after the revolution ended.
Oh, and no ruler of Russia during this time period was CRAZY; some were RUTHLESS or CRUEL but all of them were entirely sane and had entirely logical objectives.