h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I feel like a commodity to be sold to the highest bidder! I feel so cheap!!!

jk it's a small price to pay (no pun intended) for such a funky site. Just don't go getting all corporate on us. We want 'the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' not 'The Guide'

On the subject of being a 'valued' member of the community, I was just curious to know how much a researcher is worth to h2g2 Ltd? I heard somewhere that a mobile phone customer is worth between one and two thousand pounds on the value of the company (and pro rata the shares).

I assume the loyal researchers will be given preferential treatment when h2g2 is floated.

Just so long as the community spirit is kept alive, I'm sure we'll all come to terms with the commercialisation. After all, the two are co-dependent if the site is to be a success for the company and the researchers alike. No fun, no customers. No revenue, no h2g2.

~A~

*keeping an open mind*

Ok
I know that bandwidth etc has to be paid for....

But PLEEEZE...

h2g2Ltd would not be the same..
Nor would h2g2plc, OR h2g2Corp!!!!

I agree with all of the above. As much as I'm interested in understanding how all of this is funded, seeing the information posted in such a manner makes me feel like a commodity, too. Sure, advertisers want to know they're reaching people, and sometimes the demographics of what they're reaching, but as one of those being reached, I'm doing what I can to ignore banner adverts regardless of how clever they are.

Feels a bit like the Suits want to exploit the daylights out of a good thing, when the nature of the good thing is that they stay as far away as possible.....or make themselves less visible when the do come around. Commercialism tends toward the lowest common denominator and I'm preferential to the highest.....or higher, anyway..

Fruitbat

*sigh* C'est la vie.

That's monkeys for you.

~A~

Hi guys - Now we don't want you thinking that we only value you in monetary terms but in order to give you this site and all its many features (present and future) we need the capital.

This page, and all the other company pages, are our shop window page for future investors, advertisers and the like.

That much I DO understand, and appreciate: I'm probably going ot have to do something similar for my own 'company'....yet something about the way the information is phrased...or the way that we're reacting to it...creates a bit of a metallic taste in my mouth (like chewing on aluminium foil).

I'm really glad to be a part of this site and be able to refer people to it.....(wanders off, not knowing where to go with the rest of this...)

Fruitbat