SuperTopo is not a Place for Political Discussions

Fritz, that loss is heart breaking.

So the implication above that SuperTopo, because it isn't "profitable" is a purely selfless community service on the part of CM.... could be questioned.

ST lost tens of thousands of readers when they started banning people who were long in the REAL climbing community. They went from having a rating on the websites that count clicks (like Alexa) to something not even counted any longer. Meaning they lost all their market value many years ago.

The few people left (fewer every year) felt wonderfully self-righteous as each and every climbing member that posted came under inspection and almost every one was found lacking in something, and was ruthlessly heckled until they either left, asking for their lifelong postings be destroyed, or they were ruthlessly banned and their posting deleted.

This went on without shame for the last 10 years. Christ Mac is getting exactly what he has earned. He aint done nothing with the website in many years except try and sell ads thru his equipment "rating" website... the one that never finds a truely bad product. His website is dying as much as a vanity site can ever die. Look at rec climbing; completely dead for many years, yet you can still post there... sorta... I left a prediction (there) that ST would fail the climbing community as a repository of climbing history, in just the way it has. That post got a lot of response out of a truely dead site, I was castigated for leaving a complaint about one site on another... which is funny as Recclimb may outlive ST in the end.

ST is a sellout to the people that created this sport, maintain the sport and will be the future of the sport.

Good riddance to the only claim to cultural relevance that Supertopo ever had, the historical database of intentional first person stories about the beginnings of Yosemite Climbing.

They dont/didnt HAVE to do ANY of this, They Choose Too. They make MONEY off of climbing, they dont want actual climbers now, any more than they have ever have. They want our money and to assume our presumed mantle of institutional power. To pretend to represent Climbers means to assume the power we presumably represent in the outdoor community. Even when what they want is nothing good for climbers, just themselves ...

They are also banning "political" postings. And another Great Purge of posters is going on, mostly without notice or recourse... Hahahahaha... BTDT!

Goodbye to the Remnants of the Facade; the newly irrelevant.

...I Told you So....

Rokjox Bitrakn Teleski

My name is ST-"ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”