VS buys another forum...

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Depends. The usual seems to be that they take the site over and then slowly alienate and lose the original members, then there's a downturn, followed by an upswing of new members. I don't know that the really popular sites ever get back to their original membership though.

And we sort of preemptively turned CF to shit, I think, before the ads and crap really started to kick in. I had given a fair bit to try and keep it afloat, when they were having trouble, but damned if I was going to pay a e-strip miner for membership.

Seemed a lot of the core members knew it was comming. I met up with zeos after a td at summit and told me it was comming in a few months. I too threw them soem money and tried to buy from tricktape when I could just becasue they were good people but that drunk driver realy fucked them up. I thein VS reputation preceeded them taking over and most of us were aware of what they were/did so took off and bashed them at the same time.

[derf]

Originally Posted by tommymac

Seemed a lot of the core members knew it was comming. I met up with zeos after a td at summit and told me it was comming in a few months. I too threw them soem money and tried to buy from tricktape when I could just becasue they were good people but that drunk driver realy fucked them up. I thein VS reputation preceeded them taking over and most of us were aware of what they were/did so took off and bashed them at the same time.

I think that a good number of us found out about vs when we met up in gettysburg

[azoomm]

Originally Posted by tommymac

do most of the sites they buy continue to do well or were the small majority that stays away from them. Still sad to see how they turned CF to shit.

Huh, from those that are holding a grudge... I thought I turned CF to shit.

Damn VS

[Papa_Complex]

I didn't realize it, but RiderForums was recently acquired by Forum Foundry. Never heard of them before, but they sound an awful lot like VS.

[VatorMan]

You do realize they use bots to keep their post counts up right? Corvette Forum was taken over by Internet Brands. Within a couple of days we found several bots that had over a million posts. Go back and look. Guaranteed you'll find them.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by VatorMan

You do realize they use bots to keep their post counts up right? Corvette Forum was taken over by Internet Brands. Within a couple of days we found several bots that had over a million posts. Go back and look. Guaranteed you'll find them.

cf did something like that too, I was getting quoted by people in odd posts and were people I didnt know.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by tommymac

cf did something like that too, I was getting quoted by people in odd posts and were people I didnt know.

That was spamming. It seems to peak, shortly after VS announces a take-over.

[derf]

Originally Posted by VatorMan

You do realize they use bots to keep their post counts up right? Corvette Forum was taken over by Internet Brands. Within a couple of days we found several bots that had over a million posts. Go back and look. Guaranteed you'll find them.

they also use mirror sites and automatically just change the usernames

Originally Posted by Kaneman

Well aren't you just cunt-tastic

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by derf

they also use mirror sites and automatically just change the usernames

I've found my posts on ghost sites before, under different usernames, but not forums that were owned by VS.

[Lamnidae]

Originally Posted by VatorMan

You do realize they use bots to keep their post counts up right? Corvette Forum was taken over by Internet Brands. Within a couple of days we found several bots that had over a million posts. Go back and look. Guaranteed you'll find them.

Didn't know that. But makes sense.