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Re: Brickshelf and the AFOL community
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:46:02 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Kerry Raymond wrote:
> > Advertising services like Adsense can generate pretty well targeted ads, and
> > although the revenue is less than getting advertisers directly, it is much less
> > work. BRE, with only 50-60MB/day bandwidth, and pretty unobtrusive ads, is
> > easily able to cover the $10/mth hosting fee without even doing any of the
> > things Google recommend to get better results. I'm sure a site with traffic like
> > Brickshelf could generate significant income from such a service with a little
> > work.
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> Hmm. If Brickshelf was attracting plenty of money through advertising, why would
> its owner close it down? Unless we think Kevin is joining a monastery and
> devoting himself to a life of poverty, that's not rational behaviour. If
> Bricklink was really bringing in megabucks in advertising, Kevin could afford to
> hire someone else to maintain the site if he was too busy.
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> So, my guess is that the Brickshelf was not making money or at least not making
> enough to be worth Kevin's time maintaining it.
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> Kerry
As I mentioned earlier, he himself said that he was making a small profit off
Brickshelf. I would try finding his post but Zerostuds was only up for around
two weeks and wasn't picked up by the Wayback Machine crawlers at all.
I can imagine him taking it down due to time constraints though. I believe he
was moderating every uploaded folder by himself, which would be an enormous
drain on his time. I don't know how he managed to do it for so long.
-Gaurav
(remove the capital S's in the email)
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