So I walked away from KS forums, and largely the KS business. I still read a few comics there, but the last one Gaming Guardians) just left.

Still, STILL, I find you elsewhere on the internet, shooting off wildly, being a gigantic douchebag calling everyone liars, when the “liars” are the only ones offering any supporting evidence. In other words, you’re behaving like a four year old.

Never had a problem with Teri, Nate, or Gav. The only issue I have with Chris is that he defends your behavior, even when you’re making death threats, or suggesting people should die, in between all your yelling of LIES AND SLANDER.

Honestly, if you want to talk about who hurts KS’ reputation, it’s you Bobby. You’ve been making KS look terrible for years. You need a muzzle, anger management classes, or god knows what, but you need professional help. This much is clear.

Seriously, you DO do the things they fired Kel for. You make Keenspot look bad every single day of the week, every time you log onto that computer and find the keyboard, you make them look bad.

Go back and read the thread here in its entirety, you’re going to notice you’re the only real dissenting opinion here, muddled between a lot of actual professionals.

GET OVER YOURSELF.

Anyway, whatever the audience of a comic, I’m quite sure that with the current prices of bandwidth, ad revenues will always cover abundantly for hosting costs. There’s no reason aside from companionship and booths at cons to be managed by someone else.

Also, I’m quite grateful to Keenspot because I started on Keenspace back in 2004 and I might never have started if it wasn’t for it – it seemed costly and scary to put a comic on the web by myself and I didn’t know the first thing about how to do it.

The reason the original concept of Keenspot has outlived its internet usefulness is because it has been not so much a “link collective”, but more like a virtual family. That’s the part of it that’s going to be missed most. It’s not “passive aggressiveness” — it’s about community. That’s why it’s been disappointing that a better business model couldn’t be wrapped around it, even though that’s a backwards way of doing it. Like Maritza said, the internet’s changed a lot in 10 years, and it’s just hard to let go of this close relationship, even though the business side of it doesn’t make so much sense anymore.

That’s probably why this all sounds weird to Scott Kurtz. I don’t think he ever got that family aspect of it. A long time ago, before he started hating on me, he tried convincing me that Chris & co. were robbing me, somehow. But I’ve always been better off by being associated with Keenspot than I would have been otherwise. It’s one place where I always knew I could rely on help and support.

And that the Crosby family are finding a more valid path for the business — I’m not sure why that’s supposed to upset or hurt me. From my perspective, they have helped me far more over the years than I have helped them. For years now, they’ve been the central pillar of support for a web activity that didn’t use to have much support at all.