Ostensibly, he claimed he was there to "talk to the community" (all 5 people that were in the room at the time) about the problems livevideo.com was going through. He wanted the 5 people in there to speak for the entire community, and create a "Top 100" list of problems that need to be addressed.

MethodofMac and I threw several hard hitting questions at him, as the ENTIRE community has been waiting to address him for over a year now. The host of the room, in typical sycophant manner, admonished us for such behavior. "He's not here to be attacked! Gawd!" MethodofMac was kicked from the room when another mod and Greenspan adulator decided Mac wasn't fawning enough.

No, Greenspan wasn't "attacked". He was asked very direct, precise questions that the community has been screaming to deaf ears for a year now. Reporters don't attack Bush or Obama when they ask pointed questions. Please recognize your delusions. Gawd.

For the most part, Greenspan ducked and dodged every question I threw at him, which I found strange for someone allegedly wanting to create a list of fixes to implement on LV. He either answered a question with a question, or replied with innocuous answers like "money! money! money!". One member PMmed me and asked, "Is it just me, or has be ignored every question you threw at him?" I assured the member that they weren't the only one that noticed that.

My main beef was the sometimes days long approval times on videos. When I asked this several times, Greenspan gave a dismissive answer to the effect of him having a few people in Bulgaria watching and approving videos. I tried several times to tell him approvals are done in minutes on more professional sites like Youtube, and even non professional sites like the Ning platform. I tried to tell him that once videos finally filter through approval hell, they are sometimes deleted by the admins for "copyright" or some other cut n paste excuse. So why the hell did it go through an abnormally long approval waiting period in the FIRST PLACE then? No answer from Greenspan on this.

In fact, he began mocking the questions, rather than answering them. I reminded him livevideo.com was once thought of as a serious contender to Youtube a year ago, and that Shatnervision, Steve Nash, AP News, and Tommy Chong had all left the website when it began falling apart in August of last year. His reply? A snarky, "they'll come back!" Of course, I was polite enough not to bring up the ACTUAL reason these people left, along with Bikini News and other paid content here. That reason was these people stopped receiving payments due them; something Greenspan, as airheaded as he was acting last night, should be more than aware of. The industry certainly is.

He seemed more concerned with the live show content and fascinated by Numzane's Webcammax special effects. He kept bring up the fact that he just purchased two more websites, and wanted to implement the functionality of them into livevideo. I kept telling him livevideo needs to be fixed before OTHER features are added to it. He asked, "What's wrong with the site?" I nearly gave up at that point.

One of the biggest questions I asked him was, why he didn't have an official channel here, instead of using SaveStage6? Why won't he open his own show so the archives would be there for the whole community to see, rather than a select few? Why have the community rely on word-of-mouth, like reading this blog? Why deny the community a public forum to air these concerns when they have been waiting so long to talk to you? I even suggested putting a video up on the 'What's New' section of LV, stating his intentions to improve the website and install new features. You know Brad, the section that hasn't been updated in a year?

He answered, "Why? What am I to these people?"

That's the point where I gave up. I actually sat back from the keyboard in shock. I honestly began to wonder if we were being trolled. But I knew that we weren't. This is Brad Greenspan in all his befuddled glory. I then noticed a pattern. He was completely Blonde when asked about anything OTHER than new stuff he'd be adding to livevideo, and the money it would take to do so. That was a subject he stuck to, He really wanted our opinions on that, and began floating ideas of having users "buy into" the site to help costs. My anonymous PMmer caught on to it too. He was doing nothing more than marketing research. He was testing the waters for what we believed to be a money making scam.

Greenspan came off so badly to everyone in the room that WASN'T a star-fucker, that CHAOSMASTER4.0 PMmed me, who was just as much in shock about Greenspan's attitude as I was. Now keep in mind, I've had major, personal wars with this user here, and we were critiquing Greenspan's performance and coming to the exact same conclusions. THAT will give you an idea of the atmosphere in the room last night.

That's it, former livevideo.com users. This website is truly dead. It's being run by a mad captain still trying obliviously to steer a ship that has already run aground on the rocks. People wonder why so many users have left; so many talented videomakers. People ask me why I no longer use the MrPoe channel, and why I have taken down all my old videos. Why should I, or any of us allow Greenspan to make money off our videos by embedding Google ads to the end of them?

Why reward a slum lord?