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		nivertech on March 11, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unconfirmed reports that Yahoo has sold Delicious ... I interested to know, how much is OPEX per month to keep afloat a consumer web service, like delicious?

idlewords on March 11, 2011 [–]

I think it depends on how aggressive you want to be about spam fighting. The marginal cost of running delicious is not high for Yahoo (especially now that they fired the entire dev team), but you need someone to go in there and tidy up after the spammers.

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