From what I can gather:
- TV Tropes is heavily dependent on Google Ads.
- Google Ads has a strong anti-pr0n policy, and will cut off a site at the drop of a hat.
- TV Trope's admins(presumably FE and others) have been engaging in some heavy-handed censorship in order to keep the oxygen supply flowing.
- The admins have instituted a talk-to-the-hand policy when people complain about this.
What I've never seen spelled out is exactly how much money is FE making off of other people's free labor, and where does the money go? (Maybe this is spelled out somewhere on TVTropes, I've never tried to look very hard).
I think this chapter I'm working on was written by someone who doesn't know how to use quotation marks, capital letters, or bullets. Not everything should be bulleted! That defeats the point!
Thanks Tom! That helps.
I just realized the npr reporter is Steve InsKEEP, not Steve Insky.
Not to be confused with John Ydstie: [link]
It still sounds like he is saying "I'm Stevinksy" to me. It reminds me of when I used to take messages and this man kept calling "Joe, from Aldi(the grocery store". I never could figure out why this guy from Aldi was calling my boss, and then I found out his name was actually Joe Fromaldi.
ETA- or the guy at the grocery store who had a charge account that we thought was Pat Pattleinsky. He really owned a business called Pack, Paddle and Ski.
For a long time I thought Vin Scelsa was "Vince Gelsa." And I also thought Shane Victorino was "Vic Torino."
On the allergy discussion, I've been using Nasacort for the past few months, and it works great. The combination of Zyrtec and Nasacort, plus some allergy eye drops when I need them, works better than any OTC or prescription thing I've ever tried before. (Allegra works slightly better for me than Zyrtec does, but the Allegra pills are huge, and I have trouble swallowing them. Zyrtec comes in dissolvable tablets.)
"Joe, from Aldi(the grocery store". I never could figure out why this guy from Aldi was calling my boss, and then I found out his name was actually Joe Fromaldi.
ETA- or the guy at the grocery store who had a charge account that we thought was Pat Pattleinsky. He really owned a business called Pack, Paddle and Ski.
Oh, man -- these made me laugh out loud, and my officemate is having a meeting in my office! I think they are too engaged in their discussion to notice me laughing.
I just remember being a receptionist and having no idea what the name was, but being able to replicate it well enough that the person knew who was calling.
