Social Network Marketing Tycoon

**imported_illusion** · 09-21-2006, 10:53 PM

Well the title basically summarises it. Is there any of your previous communities, ones that you sell, that have gone down the hill?

I used to own http://www.pixelgoat.com and now it is a HUGE spam fest. Was funny when I went back. It went up to PR 5 and he just sold links and people have been spamming the heck out of the forum :P

Any of you guys?

**BamaStangGuy** · 09-21-2006, 10:55 PM

None here. I havent sold any forums and I dont let ones I own go down hill in that aspect.

**ltn1dr** · 09-21-2006, 11:51 PM

www.DebateHQ.com

I sold it, nothing happened, maybe 100 posts in like 3-4 months.

**007** · 09-22-2006, 02:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BamaStangGuy

None here. I havent sold any forums and I dont let ones I own go down hill in that aspect.

I haven't sold any forums either, however, I have gone back to forums I used to post at only to find them in shambles.

**pfgannon** · 09-22-2006, 11:04 AM

I sold http://gamingfury.com/ a little before I lost intrest in gaming.
They slapped vbulletin on it put a new design on it, but did nothing to promote it. But meh, I made money from the sale.

**Andreas Bard** · 09-22-2006, 11:08 AM

I hade one In sold about 2 years ago, it had 5000 members and now it is like totally dead and I do not think any of the active users then will come back.

Sad, but true!

//Andreas

**GeorgeB** · 09-22-2006, 11:13 AM

Actually most forums I sell I try to make them fool proof before I sell them.

Recent example would be preludezone.com. The guy did nothing but replace my ads with his and mess the template up a bit.

He doesn't login or anything but that's because I had a good staff and a volunteer admin. So he doesn't have to.

Few other success stories halofans.com and vtctalk.com. vtctalk doesn't get many posts but gets a lot of visitors daily from SEs because of the great content and high paying videoconferencing adsense clicks.

Only too failures I've ever sold were dualpartisan.com and bigloveboards.com

**PeterLancs** · 09-22-2006, 12:49 PM

www.talk-torque.co.uk lol

**netdesignz** · 09-22-2006, 02:20 PM

I sold nintendocorner.com a few years ago, and that one died. (doesn't exist as of a month ago)

the360report.com is very inactive now

That's about it

**Joshimitsu** · 09-23-2006, 07:49 AM

gamingdebate.com :P I did it with 2 other people, i haven't touched it in months, but another one of the staff took away the nice design and made it ugly..

**imported_Anthony** · 09-23-2006, 08:31 AM

http://www.hellogreen.com

Sold it and watched it go downhill, biggest mistake ever

**Mike** · 09-24-2006, 12:50 AM

I sold out from my portion of the ownership of one site/forum that took an almost immediate nosedive after I left. It was the reasons that I left that ultimately caused the site to go into the tank, and nobody listening to me which made me get out.

And this is a big-boards site.

**Jerlene** · 09-24-2006, 05:44 AM

I owned a forum that was doing alright but it went completely dead in a matter of days so I waited it out and still nothing happened so I finally deleted it the other day.

**imported_illusion** · 09-24-2006, 06:08 AM

Well I was actually meaning former communities, so ones you don't own Jerlene

**Jerlene** · 09-24-2006, 06:16 AM

Well it's on the market. Lol. No one wanted it 'cause it sucked so bad after a few weeks so i'm selling the domain only now.

**Sygon** · 09-25-2006, 04:36 PM

I would love to build a forum where it didnt rely on the owner

**ForgottenCreature** · 09-25-2006, 06:07 PM

http://www.discussbiz.com/
http://www.pcgamingtalk.com/forum/

I sold them both for high $xxx and now they are both completely dead :P

**imported_illusion** · 09-25-2006, 08:23 PM

FC both of them have DB errors on them :P

lol

**JustinG** · 09-26-2006, 06:53 PM

I wouldnt say mine is dead. But Wiipoint has been open for like 2 weeks and If I don't post as the admin no one ever does. I would love to say I didnt have to post and they did but so in that ascept it is dead with out me.

I hope activity will pick up..

**MonkeyBiz** · 09-26-2006, 06:56 PM

A hecker broke intop my phpbb but it wasnt getting any posts anyway