We've thought quite a bit about it, but unfortunately can't afford to take our site offline on our best traffic day. We need the money the site would lose in traffic to pay people who make content for us.seraphy said:
It's understandable that the site can't afford to lose the ad revenue from it's busiest day of the week, but will The Escapist be taking other steps to protest such as boycotting E3?Kross said:We've thought quite a bit about it, but unfortunately can't afford to take our site offline on our best traffic day. We need the money the site would lose in traffic to pay people who make content for us.
We did have a more drastic blackout skin ready to go, but are going to instead link people who are interested to EFF's blacklist site [http://blacklist.eff.org/] up top in the logo and try to talk about it in our news stream. Sorry we can't afford to be more dramatic about our activism, we'd certainly like to be.
I think the escapist is good to not go down completely. There is raising awareness by talking and shooting yourself in the foot. This is something the escapist has done better then the other sites by actually having messages in their content. On other sites the first I heard they care about SOPA is when they blacked themselves out. OK, don't warn anyone whats going on just kill your site one day with the message "see you'll miss me." It feels vaguely like over dramatic blackmail, like the beginning of blazing saddles. Maybe if the down sites put up a splash that was a fake blackout you could click through so the sites not really down you just panic for a moment I would be happier.Kross said:We've thought quite a bit about it, but unfortunately can't afford to take our site offline on our best traffic day. We need the money the site would lose in traffic to pay people who make content for us.seraphy said:
We did have a more drastic blackout skin ready to go, but are going to instead link people who are interested to EFF's blacklist site [http://blacklist.eff.org/] up top in the logo and try to talk about it in our news stream. Sorry we can't afford to be more dramatic about our activism, we'd certainly like to be.
I'd do that, except it's going to be -50 degrees Celcius with wind chill.Evil Smurf said:
Ahh. I appreciate you sharing your reasoning. And I do understand, bit disappointed perhaps but still.Kross said:We've thought quite a bit about it, but unfortunately can't afford to take our site offline on our best traffic day. We need the money the site would lose in traffic to pay people who make content for us.
We did have a more drastic blackout skin ready to go, but are going to instead link people who are interested to EFF's blacklist site [http://blacklist.eff.org/] up top in the logo and try to talk about it in our news stream. Sorry we can't afford to be more dramatic about our activism, we'd certainly like to be.
