Use the Tumblr Method to support the site [Rejected]

[panzerkampfwagyu]

I know Tumblr might not be the best example of good business decisions, but I feel that their latest monetization method has been a rather good one.
Namely: Selling Useless garbage advertised as useless garbage.
Like the Checkmarks, a 1-time purchase of 8 bucks for 2 checkmarks that only appear besides your username and don't really do anything(They are stackable though)
Or the crabs, which are a 24 hour active button that allows you to get a crab effect on blogs. You can turn your checkmarks into crabs too.

I do think that monetizing dumb features specifically made and advertised to be dumb is a rather fair business model

 

[kuma]

MD has no interest to make profit. as long they have enough founding to keep site running, they couldn't care less about money.

 

[tristan9]

To expand on this a bit; if MD were to run out of money and it was a life-or-death situation, we'd think of ways to monetise temporarily (and it's really not that hard to do with our traffic levels, even a static banner on the homepage would pay the site costs back tenfold), but we're just opposed to both advertisements and also to making money off of content that isn't ours in the first place.

So it's less of a "how can we" and more of a "we don't want to". Appreciate your worrying for us, but be at ease

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Now, that the monetary situation has changed, might this idea be revisited?

 

[tristan9]

Now, that the monetary situation has changed, might this idea be revisited?

The current approach is working so far, and we'll be scaling it back if anything, now that we have the revenue we need to keep operating.