Originally posted by: Tachikoma-Kun
So that was how liberty really died... To a deafening silence. I can't help but think that they are shooing themselves in the leg. Once you drive out all the critisism and alternative points of views, you are left with nothing.

That is a very astute observation, but it isn’t the only way they are shooting themselves in the foot.

Note that the majority of posters on the “Bashers Sanctuary” were over the age of thirty.

Note that people age 30-55 are in the prime of their bread-winning years while teens and twenty-somethings struggle to make it. The former group has much more discretionary income than the later and they are also much more likely to have children of their own.

Note that TFN makes mad cash based on people following their links to purchase items.

In my case this means that TFN lost four possible sources of income (DA, DA’s wife, DA’s two kids) just because they don’t respect differing points of view. It’s obvious just from looking around here that I am far from the only person that left and that’s just the people that left the “Basher’s Sanctuary.” Now imagine all of the posters that took the moral high ground and refused to even post in the Sanctuary because it implied that they were bashers. All of these people have found other sites and those sites are now reaping the rewards for TFN’s (or more accurately TFN mod’s) foolishness.