The users are the hard part of a social network, not the staff or the codebase. Pissing off users leaves a stench that keeps away new people. Source: worked fo

The users are the hard part of a social network, not the staff or the codebase. Pissing off users leaves a stench that keeps away new people. Source: worked for a social network that died by sacrificing users for an idealized vision of what it could be.