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Someone Stole Sherlock's 300,000 Likes

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Re: Someone Stole Sherlock's 300,000 Likes

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Post by goodside »

The moral of the story here is that you shouldn't invest your time and emotional energy into things that actually belong to other people.

You didn't own a website here. You didn't write code, you didn't set up servers, and you didn't sit around worrying about whether you were monetizing well enough to keep the site from imploding under its own popularity. You volunteered to be the curator of an entry in a database owned by a multi-billion-dollar company, you took an abnormal amount of pride in your work, and after a few years they decided your services were no longer needed.

You are owed nothing. Be more careful with how you invest your time from now on.

Re: Someone Stole Sherlock's 300,000 Likes

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Post by ryguytilidie »

goodside wrote: post #5

The moral of the story here is that you shouldn't invest your time and emotional energy into things that actually belong to other people. You didn't own a website here. You didn't write code, you didn't set up servers, and you didn't sit around worrying about whether you were monetizing well enough to keep the site from imploding under its own popularity. You volunteered to be the curator of an entry in a database ow…

I actually came to write that the big takeaway for me was to care about things that actually exist. Pouring your life into a fan site that can one day disappear seems incredibly depressing. In that time others have built companies, relationships and a happy life and you have built: a collection of fan art for an obscure tv show.

Isn't there something better one could be doing?

Re: Someone Stole Sherlock's 300,000 Likes

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Post by DeanCollinsNYC »

goodside wrote: post #5

The moral of the story here is that you shouldn't invest your time and emotional energy into things that actually belong to other people. You didn't own a website here. You didn't write code, you didn't set up servers, and you didn't sit around worrying about whether you were monetizing well enough to keep the site from imploding under its own popularity. You volunteered to be the curator of an entry in a database ow…

looks like it is back but with only 750 likes :(

i agree with the comment about how dont biuild on other peoples platforms.

I started a sports fan site ( http://www.LiveFanChat.com ) and even though we have 14 fan pages for each of our sites have made sure to keep generic names

eg http://www.LiveBaseballChat.com is http://www.Facebook.com/LiveBaseballChat

and there is nothing the MLB can do about it.

Re: Someone Stole Sherlock's 300,000 Likes

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Post by tdorrance »

goodside wrote: post #5

The moral of the story here is that you shouldn't invest your time and emotional energy into things that actually belong to other people. You didn't own a website here. You didn't write code, you didn't set up servers, and you didn't sit around worrying about whether you were monetizing well enough to keep the site from imploding under its own popularity. You volunteered to be the curator of an entry in a database ow…

I don't think the point here is how time was spent but rather how the process was conducted by facebook. There should be a better way for this to handled.
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