VS buys another forum...

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Likely the contract provides a gradual payment, rather than a lump sum, depending on a "nice, peaceful" transition. Think about it, if you were VS you wouldn't just pay Rez and then watch him shit on the forum. You would put it in the contract that he can't recruit away members, that he must not talk shit or reveal any confidential info, and that X number of mods must stay around for at least X amount of time. At least that's what I'd do if I were VS.

(If I wanted to be in the business of creating nothing, and leaching off others, of course).

Standard non compete and non disclosure. I doubt there was a whole lot other than that.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Standard non compete and non disclosure. I doubt there was a whole lot other than that.

I am prety sure that they do that. I recall that they bought out another forum ( I think it was either a yamaha or ducati forum) and they tried to start up another site soon after then VS went after the new site along those lines.

[azoomm]

Originally Posted by tommymac

I am prety sure that they do that. I recall that they bought out another forum ( I think it was either a yamaha or ducati forum) and they tried to start up another site soon after then VS went after the new site along those lines.

Ducati Monster board. The new one exists... didn't close.

[derf]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Likely the contract provides a gradual payment, rather than a lump sum, depending on a "nice, peaceful" transition. Think about it, if you were VS you wouldn't just pay Rez and then watch him shit on the forum. You would put it in the contract that he can't recruit away members, that he must not talk shit or reveal any confidential info, and that X number of mods must stay around for at least X amount of time. At least that's what I'd do if I were VS.

(If I wanted to be in the business of creating nothing, and leaching off others, of course).

Yep Rez explained it to me when they first offered him the buyout, he would be required to participate on the forum for X number of months with a minimum number of posts by him a week. He would also not be allowed to open up another site that would be in competition with CF. he would also loose complete control over the forum. And then he turned it down. After that, stuff started to get bad and eventually he sold.

There were some folks who when the rumors of the VS buyout started that were talking about starting a forum to bring members to after the fall of CF, one of the sites that was floated (and possibly registered) was cafeforums.com , with the CF highlighted. What wound up happening instead is that a number of people had already been through a VS buyout split right away and migrated with their online social group elsewhere, here, sporttouring.net got a small influx, a few harley sites, some locality based forums, basically wherever.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by derf

Yep Rez explained it to me when they first offered him the buyout, he would be required to participate on the forum for X number of months with a minimum number of posts by him a week. He would also not be allowed to open up another site that would be in competition with CF. he would also loose complete control over the forum. And then he turned it down. After that, stuff started to get bad and eventually he sold.

There were some folks who when the rumors of the VS buyout started that were talking about starting a forum to bring members to after the fall of CF, one of the sites that was floated (and possibly registered) was cafeforums.com , with the CF highlighted. What wound up happening instead is that a number of people had already been through a VS buyout split right away and migrated with their online social group elsewhere, here, sporttouring.net got a small influx, a few harley sites, some locality based forums, basically wherever.

Our small group in the NY forum stayed put and I think the PNW forum is still rather busy, but thats a lot of guys who dont venture out much and from what I heard they had plenty of their own drama too.

[Kaneman]

Man derf sure knows a lot of about CF for never having been a member there!

[derf]

Originally Posted by Kaneman

Man derf sure knows a lot of about CF for never having been a member there!

Ummmmm? I was a member of SBN and went to CF, I had something like 150000 posts

[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.