My own days of attempting cat herding are definitely over
I quite like Yac and we generally got along well on a personal level. However, while he could be helpful with the little things, I found him to be disappointingly impotent when it came to dealing with the larger issues. It's not necessarily for a lack of want or helpfulness, but rather just that his mandate to rule this site seemed to be fairly limited back then. I assume it still is.
I discussed the state of MB with him years back and he took some opinions / arguments back to the owners, but eventually the message back was that the owners just wanted to leave everything as it was - no big updates or changes or anything. I assume the site creates some revenue as it is, though I'm a little unsure how. I mean, I assume it is through generating ad clicks, but if it's bots or people clicking, I don't know. And as for what happens when it doesn't create revenue or the site needs an update for the old google ads to work, who knows?
Anyways, back then I felt that they should have thrown us a bone or something. The community here is part responsible for why this is a revenue earning site at all (besides age and good google rankings), so it would be cool if they would do something for us. However, I got the impression it would be more cost-effective to do nothing, even if that meant leaving the site to decline in various ways. Or possibly they felt that my radical suggestions were too much of a gamble.. That could be.
