If some people will be monetized...

Does that mean half the members, especially the selfie wh*res, are going to be constantly asking for patreon donations, likes, subscribes, check out their other umpteen social sites, trying to sell you everything under the sun,

I understand why the admins want traffic but won't monetizing members just encourage SW panhandling?

One major change I bet happens is people who are trying to hustle on here will not be so quick to block anyone.

Plus, based on what people normally post, will they now be saying, "Please subscribe to my platform to hear more details about my pathetic depressed existence as a lonely middle aged person."

Are those members going to do weekly podcasts where the listeners can hear actual whining of the depressed cougar or incel?

rrraksamam · 31-35, M

I think you're going to p!ss off a lot of people with your brutal honesty.

Fact of the matter is, most middle aged people here make the same boring posts like the rest of the age groups.
I've seen very few profiles with quality posts worth reading.
Everyone else just comes on here and dumps their random two sentence thoughts and gathers dozens of hearts and comments.

Most of the selfie folks here already have jobs, or have an alternate source of income.
The selfies are merely here for attention which they probably don't get offline.

Podcasts? I doubt most people here would be able to make a decent podcast worth listening to.
They neither have the attention span to write long enough, nor read long enough.
How would they manage to speak for an hour or more?
I doubt most people here have the intellectual capacity to speak for an hour or more on various topics.
Best they can do is gossip and talk about drama. That's the only stuff most are interested in engaging in.

CestManan · 46-50, F

@rrraksamam

I think you're going to p!ss off a lot of people with your brutal honesty.

You just summed up the story of my life in one sentence. ☺️
Half the people who blocked me are republican and the other half are the attention-seeking depressed.

Then in the rest of the post, yeah that wraps up the forum pretty much.

But yeah I was reading one of Andrew's posts about this monetization where he mentioned something about creating content and I thought, "Well most people here are not focused or smart enough to create anything really worth reading."

Maybe they could make it an "SW Jerry Springer" thing?

rrraksamam · 31-35, M

@CestManan I don't even bother clicking on most of the posts here because I know they've got nothing worth reading or commenting on.

Besides, their algorithm has already made it pretty difficult for people to see most of the posts here.
So with their ad revenue monetization on one side and algorithm on the other, it's counterintuitive.

The moment they came up with this algorithm nonsense to filter out what each user sees and "customize their experience", they'd lost the plot.

The only reason most people still come here is because they've got nowhere else to go. And most social networks are PG rated and moderated, so they can't post this type of garbage elsewhere.

As for the SW Jerry Springer thing, nah. People here aren't entertaining enough for that kind of show.
Entertaining others requires creative intelligence.
And quite frankly? Most people here don't have that. Sorry.
Sounds rude, sounds harsh, but you can visit all the profiles here and see for yourself.
Half the folks online on the People page don't even have posts, or haven't posted in over a year. They just come here to engage in inbox degen3racy.