Park Slope Parents to Start Charging for Membership
The popular list serve Park Slope Parents (which is up to 13,000 members) announced yesterday that it plans to start charging $25 a year per household. Not surprisingly, a debate is raging on the list. We’re curious to know what you think of that. Please take this super-quick survey we put together here to weigh…
The popular list serve Park Slope Parents (which is up to 13,000 members) announced yesterday that it plans to start charging $25 a year per household. Not surprisingly, a debate is raging on the list. We’re curious to know what you think of that. Please take this super-quick survey we put together here to weigh in.
BREAKING NEWS—
The “original†group just posted that there is yet ANOTHER group!
The Free Park Slope Parents
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFREEParkSlopeParents/
To subscribe, send a blank message to: TheFREEParkSlopeParents-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
I also hope that this fee just strengthens my neighborhood group but I also enjoy PSP because it’s so huge. Anyway, already found a splinter group. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theotherparkslopeparents/
Here’s a splinter group!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theotherparkslopeparents/
it’s not a site you dummies
I am a member of the Park Slope classified listserv which is great. However, I wouldn’t pay $25/year for it. 13,000 members x $25=325,000/year (not including paid advertisers) for a blog? Hopefully, this will just make our FREE Fort Greene babies and kids listservs more popular.
why pay for something you can get for free elsewhere?
Buncha tards in PS
I’m on the e-mail list but have honestly been deleting them unread lately and was thinking of unsubscribing to keep my inbox cleaner.
If they want to get paid, they need to decide if they want to get paid RIGHT NOW (e.g., membership fees) or if they still want to be getting paid 5-10 years from now (e.g., create a site with a business model that doesn’t choke itself to death).
Just my $0.02. I don’t care much one way or the other as I never used the site much. I’m mostly just annoyed at stupid decisions regarding web sites in an abstract sense, as that’s what I’m dealing with in my job lately…
I hope that a competing site will be set up, very often something comes out that is better than the original. And, even if it’s not “better,” it would be nice to see posts that are unfiltered and uncensored (PSP carefully screens posts). The useful information is found on the yahoo listserv, many PSPers don’t even check the website (which is no great shakes by the way) because they find the info outdated or not useful. I’m on the fence about this one, on the one hand, it’s annoying to pay for information that is freely given by other posters, on the other hand, PSP is saying that their founder and other moderators deserve to be paid for their countless hours of work done.
Hard to see this site having any longevity with subscription. That’s a whole week of coffee for the mommy mafia !