Talkshoe Decides to Stop All Payments Retroactively

Talkshoe is a company I've always admired tremendously for several reasons. Oh, they always had a few things I didn't care for like the design of the site and their spammy emails, but all in all, they built a community of folks that really helped each other. A lot of them have dropped by the wayside since the "old days" of September 2006, but still it's a fun place.

On around May 29th, the statistics counters that show downloads and participants stopped moving and someone posted this to the forum. The response was a real surprise. I paraphrase Dave Nelsen, Talkshoe's amiable home-winemaking CEO here:

We decided to stop paying out and that decision is retroactive beginning May 1st.

Although it was never actually announced, the reasoning behind it was posted in their blog.

Fair enough, but there was absolutely no mention of this which makes it look like the server bills can't be paid or something. Dave has promised to reveal nothing on his "sharing" show next Thursday, but the show will certainly go through the roof in participants. Too bad he won't be paid for it!

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