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Dear Neil,

The suspension of the news message boards at Yahoo is a good way to alienate the Yahoo users. The experience of making the readers angry from the newspaper industry is showing.

Watch as Yahoo loses viewers, users, and thanks to you, makes the "un-cool" status.

The message boards were a source of living history. You just threw the baby out the window with the dirty bath water.

Some threads contain hundreds of thousands of responses.

Man, when you go out of your way to make people angry you don't fool around. May I suggest you look into India. Plenty of people to piss off there.

Sincerely,
Mike


Neil Budde wrote:

Yes, we know that suspending the message boards will alienate the 1% of our users who used them. But we also know that improved message boards could attract wider participation.

Neil

From: Michael
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 9:22 AM
To: Neil Budde
Subject: RE: Message Boards

Dear Neil,

I might not agree with what you have to say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

You remind me of the guy that brings a football to play tag football and when a call goes against him, or gets hurt, or is losing the game badly, terminates the game by taking the ball and goes home.

Pray tell how are you going to increase participation by suspending the message boards?

Please don't piss on my leg and tell me it is raining. "A few vocal users?" Christ, some threads have close to a million posts.

You are living proof newspapers and newpaper people are the biggest threat to the First Amendment.

Have a Happy New Year!

Sincerely,
Mike


I’d liken it more to a guy who brings a football to play tag football and then one or two guys pull out knives and otherwise turn the place into an uncivil mess that chases all the people who want to play tag football off.

Our goal is to replace the message boards with a system that allows the people who want to play tag football to keep playing tag football even if a few hooligans try to break it up.

Neil