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In all of these years, I never got the interest in that site.
COMPLEX ACQUIRES SOLE COLLECTOR
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In all of these years, I never got the interest in that site.
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The value of that acquisition is mainly from the market place and ad revenue from the blog. With that said, I respect Steve's come up. I don't see it as exploitation of the sneaker culture and had I been in the same position I would do the same.
NT is a whole other community. I spend most of my time here on the General Forums, Sports, and Music. The users here are a lot more interesting than on ISS. ISS reminds me that kid with no personality who spends a bunch of money on shoes and clothes to validate himself. I only go to ISS to come up on a pair of shoes or sell some shoes.
NT is a whole other community. I spend most of my time here on the General Forums, Sports, and Music. The users here are a lot more interesting than on ISS. ISS reminds me that kid with no personality who spends a bunch of money on shoes and clothes to validate himself. I only go to ISS to come up on a pair of shoes or sell some shoes.
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But when Meth ethered Steve 
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ISS used to be great. Started on the forums back in 04 and to see where it is now is just awful. The main issue is that a lot of people aren't active anymore. Older members usually just stick to the same 3-4 threads or disappear all together. New post are just redundant and have no depth. I remember when the DMV thread would have like 20 new pages a day, I check once every now and then and its on the 5th page of the forum.
The update to the marketplace was an improvement though. A lot easier to find sneakers, and they're usually at a really great price.
ISS really wanted to be more of a content provider if anything.
The update to the marketplace was an improvement though. A lot easier to find sneakers, and they're usually at a really great price.
ISS really wanted to be more of a content provider if anything.
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good maybe Complex will stop coming here and taking out stuff and posting here
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Was this picture taken for comedic purposes? Serious question.
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Nope, they really thought they were doing it.
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The wait period and essay to join is the only solution, believe it or not the main reasons ALOT of ISSers stayed ISSers and not NTers was 1 the process to join NT, 2 the black and red format of NT
The wait period was a great tool against trolls, Meth needs to look into this.
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ill tell ya one thing iss/sc got right was the MP...it seems all the young sneakerheads aged 11-18 start out there then gradually migrate to NT when theyre tired of ********.
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Sole Bar.. oh man.. I forgot about that.
lol
lol
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Wow it's been that long since Meth destroyed him
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How can you be mad at this?
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You should hang out with him, he can afford $2000 weekends with you
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Mostly General and occasional Sports for me, but yeah, there are the few trolls and stupid posters in those shoe threads. Still, our maturity level and quality of posts are definitely > SC's
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Complex is awful, as is sole collectors forums. They have some cool articles but that forum is :x
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Damn, how did I miss that exchange, wasn't even exploring anything other than JB/retro RD and pics at the time on this site. Good times passed my face and I ain't eem know it 
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This statement right here is why ISS has the upper hand on Niketalk as far as retention rate is concerned. Cracking jokes is one thing, but too often I'm sure users feel like they can't voice an opinion without being nailed to the cross for it.
Although Niketalk DOES have some very helpful and informative users it also has some terrible personalities.
Like haters on levels of Super Sayan 5.
What's wrong with making money? You're willing to shell over hundreds sometimes THOUSANDS to large corporations to quench your thirst for certain sneakers. Why hate someone for providing a platform in turn for monetary gain? Time is money.
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yeah more top # list garbage :x
I always viewed the whole NT vs. I$$ thing like this:
NT=
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I$$=
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Now I$$ x Complex =
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I always viewed the whole NT vs. I$$ thing like this:
NT=
View media item 313617
I$$=
View media item 313618
Now I$$ x Complex =
View media item 313620
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Complex was just as trash as ISS so this like piling trash on top of trash now.
...and the nerve of Complex to make 'Most influential NTer' list....
so this like piling trash on top of trash now....and the nerve of Complex to make 'Most influential NTer' list....
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Lol retention rate? Is it a college? no one is keeping you here
I was just "rustlin your jimmies"
