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Daytona is well-read, but on the whole, the AMA series isn't worth covering. Remember, we have seven years or readership data to analyize: The past couple of years, WSB has been the most-read, the GPs a distant second and AMA, after Daytona, is really poorly read. Thus, Glenn LeSanto will be at all the WSB races, Colin MacKeller will cover GPs for us. And it's cheaper to travel/lodge in Europe than it is here. You wouldn't believe it, but it's true.
Again, look to the print world for an analogy: Cycle World, general interest magazine, 330,000 circulation, Roadracing World, racing magazine, mostly US, 12,000. So it is with us. Our time is better spent here reviewing bikes. Even the Vino Scooter review does better than race coverage.
We only cover races because I dig motorcycle roadracing. Very few people care. Have you ever been to Daytona? There's 400,000 riders outside, and the stands are virtually empty in the Speedway. It's sad...
Again, look to the print world for an analogy: Cycle World, general interest magazine, 330,000 circulation, Roadracing World, racing magazine, mostly US, 12,000. So it is with us. Our time is better spent here reviewing bikes. Even the Vino Scooter review does better than race coverage.
We only cover races because I dig motorcycle roadracing. Very few people care. Have you ever been to Daytona? There's 400,000 riders outside, and the stands are virtually empty in the Speedway. It's sad...
Re: M.O. Censored Me! Are You Afraid Of Something?
We don't delete posts, certainly not ones where I've taken the time to respond. ;-) Let me see what's going on... probably Calvin or Minime was going to moderate it down and hit "D" instead of "M". I haven't seen that you've ever posted poorly worded items...
As for your line: "I think it is is inappropriate to delete posts simply because you are
personally unhappy with the contents." Here's your publically response: MO is very open about taking criticism. But this is our site, actually, my site. Our policy is not to delete anything unless it's inflammatory or slanderous. We just moderate down off-topic posts so no one sees it. That said, mistakes happen, and it is our site, we'll delete whatever we deem inappropriate, we are, after all, the owners and the overall moderators of MO: We decide what is worthy of publishing and when.
There's been a lot of grumbling around here lately, we grow tired of the never-ending flames, especially when people aren't reading what we write: How many times have we said that racing, especially American racing, is a puny minority of our readership? And that minority tends to be vocal and complain all the time. That it's a horrid use of resources given the readership return? That we wouldn't be covering it if we weren't in that minority of fans? See my response to Steve above...
We don't delete posts, certainly not ones where I've taken the time to respond. ;-) Let me see what's going on... probably Calvin or Minime was going to moderate it down and hit "D" instead of "M". I haven't seen that you've ever posted poorly worded items...
As for your line: "I think it is is inappropriate to delete posts simply because you are
personally unhappy with the contents." Here's your publically response: MO is very open about taking criticism. But this is our site, actually, my site. Our policy is not to delete anything unless it's inflammatory or slanderous. We just moderate down off-topic posts so no one sees it. That said, mistakes happen, and it is our site, we'll delete whatever we deem inappropriate, we are, after all, the owners and the overall moderators of MO: We decide what is worthy of publishing and when.
There's been a lot of grumbling around here lately, we grow tired of the never-ending flames, especially when people aren't reading what we write: How many times have we said that racing, especially American racing, is a puny minority of our readership? And that minority tends to be vocal and complain all the time. That it's a horrid use of resources given the readership return? That we wouldn't be covering it if we weren't in that minority of fans? See my response to Steve above...
Re: M.O. whine with that cheese?
We have the aforementioned troll control. Sadly, teamprobono has now made the rank of troll, so we won't be hearing from him for three days.
And you're wrong, revenues will come from the feature article readers. Racers can always get results from the AMA for free, and tend to be cheap (racing is expensive!). Mind you, I went to every AMA race with our team, Colin and Glenn DO do live WSB and GP results, and I'll say it again: It's not worth it in a $$$/readership analysis. Not even close.
We have the aforementioned troll control. Sadly, teamprobono has now made the rank of troll, so we won't be hearing from him for three days.
And you're wrong, revenues will come from the feature article readers. Racers can always get results from the AMA for free, and tend to be cheap (racing is expensive!). Mind you, I went to every AMA race with our team, Colin and Glenn DO do live WSB and GP results, and I'll say it again: It's not worth it in a $$$/readership analysis. Not even close.
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