So what do you think the REAL Sodahead story is?

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Unfortunately, it was a matter of lucrative business.

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I don't believe the "official" story either. I suppose it's possible? It just doesn't seem probable? At least it doesn't to me. I had been a SodaHead member for long time, then my work changed and I didn't have a lot of time to keep up with it, then when I got the see y'all later email I just let it go. I was fooling around the other day on Google and ran into an article that said this is where a lot of the old SH members ended up, my work settled down again, so I thought why not. So, I just now joined. That said I read some crazy stuff on what was going on at the end. SH was out of hand at times anyway, mostly the political board. Apparently after I stopped keeping up, it went completely off the rails? Like I said SH was always like the wild west. I never let that trash talk bother me. I believe what I believe, I respect everyone's right to their own opinion. I may not agree with it, I still respect that right. I remember, as I was logging on less I did notice the discussions were getting more...Let's say, colorful, that didn't and still doesn't bother me, I have no problem standing and defending, my right to have an opinion about what I believe, apparently, it must have bothered some people ALOT! Oh, well the wild west doesn't bother me neither does the tame west. IMO, it distills down to basic respect and common courtesy. I haven't filled out my profile yet, I figured I would see where the bear s@#t in the buckwheat before I pitched a tent. So.... Hello everyone, I hope y'all have been well, I look forward to having some good discussions and/or debates with you folks, I hope to talk with you soon. (*v*)

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The real story is they didn't like the truth.We are suppose to forget black slaves murdered American Indians stolen parts of Mexico government meth labs privatly contracted government killers Chinese paid in opiam the wars for drugs not against and the testing of drugs on homEless.Or the fact we can pay 50 grand year for a convicts lifetime without problem but paying 100 grand to educate criminals so they're not stupid and make enough to buy a house.Thank you who ever started this site now I can share till they make me have an accident.

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Who really knows?  Fef told ppl what he thought we wanted to know explaining about the shut down but no one really bought the story.       It's gone now and just an after thought so it's time to just let it go because the site won't ever be back to what we once knew with the commenting, etc.          We must move on; forge ahead, you get the idea.      

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I dealt with a bunch of right-wing bullies on sodahead.com. As usual, conservatives always seem to want to pass the buck onto the left. They blame the left for everyone wrong in a given enviroment. You criticize Christianity, say that it is a false religon and explain why in detail, you then recieve a swarm of nagging idiots who then complain about the very small liberal existence on sodahead. It's classic. When a bunch of right wingers go off and they're the problem, it comes back to "Liberals this, liberals that." Listen on sodhead.com, the liberal presence was very small. Sodahead was full of right wing, Christian fanatics.

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Do you realize how many mysterious deaths occur surrounding certain politicians-?? Most recently Andrew Breitbart,Britany Murphy??--- Google " mysterious deaths associated with the Clinton's." Something scared them..what else could it be???

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 Political,or a serious lawsuit.

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I kind of don't want to know! :S

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Good point Greg.  There was  a lot exposed on SH.  That's one thing I haven't really found on any of these other sites.  And the thing was, SH had such a diverse range of people - yes, there really was - that many that would probably never had been exposed to some of that info were made aware.  And the subjects being exposed also varied widely.  That is really what I miss most about the site.  I happened across a lot of things that prompted me to do further research, which I often shared on there with others.

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the real story is what does swagbucks do.  

Swagbucks is a user habit data mining service.
They sell user data, that is their business model. the polling ability is NOT worth 61 million dollars.   But user data is worth MORE than 61 million.  The polling ability was simply a bonus.

corporations and organizations pay top dollar for "people profiles" especially if they can be identified and linked to demographic data.  This kind of data, that if the government collected such data, would be in major violation of the constitution of the USA.

The proof that I am right is in how much swagbucks paid out in rewards.   They are making FAR MORE than what is paid out. Or swagbucks would of gone under a long time ago.

One of the reasons that I can see why swagbucks would do such a move is that we have addons like adblockerplus that may be cutting into their revenue. So they were looking for another means to compinsate for the profit loss.

From a corporate stand point its an ingenious move. Because here you have a user database of people who most likely were avoiding swagbucks and their ilk.  They want our data so they buyout a high profile site like sodahead as a means to legally get it, when we do not vollenteer that data willingly.

In a way the data of users who have been avoiding them like the plague in many ways, may be worth more than those that willingly give it.  Especially if there is a lot of it. like archives of data.    they get all this data at once and which means instant LARGE profit, because its all at once and not spread out over time, like the traditional swagbucks meathod..

From a consumer standpoint this is our worst nightmare comming to reality, because they now have data that we would not want some random organization or corporation to have.  The kind of data we activily avoid givng to such Amoral profiteering groups. And what is worse is that it maybe completely legal due to the fact they bought them out and with the way current contract law is written in where the user agreement can be changed and is binding without the user consent or foreknowledge.

In otherwords we were literally and figuretily, virtually raped and mugged and tortured for our personal info and secrets. And we are expected to say "thank you so much for abusing us in this manor and please do it more".

enough is enough.

I really like my privacy, its nothing personal against anyone here. especially in light of having accounts locked on sodahead.