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[Cam]

Q: Are you open to negotiating a sale of ForumPromotion?​

I am not the sole owner of FP.

That's great! It sounds like we're a very similar age - I too first started on forums around the same time as you, on a forum dedicated to a website I used when I was a kid called "SwapItShop" - that was essentially a version of eBay for kids to "sell" items for swapits (credits) that they could then use to "buy" other things. The whole system was rather complicated and involved sending things to swapitshop headquarters where they'd check, repackage and re-send the items onto the buyer.

I and a friend eventually created a rival forum as we were terribly behaved kids and would regularly get banned from the main forum, eventually our forum became just as popular although was still generally a small niche site.

So glad I joined Swapitshop and ended up finding that forum as I think it's rather unlikely I'd have continued on to find and participate in other forums had I not!

Anyhow, I've digressed a bit, but I do have another question for you though - what's the biggest forum (or website) that you've run so far, and is it still running?

I suppose FP would be the answer to that question. It’s alive and well. I also ran WWEForums for a couple years, and that would probably be the second biggest. I ended up selling that forum and the new owner merged it into WrestlingSmarks.

 

[frm]

I am not the sole owner of FP.

That didn't answer the question.

I asked you if you're open for negotiating, which would involve you asking other parties if that were the case, and coming back with a Yes or a No. Or, you could've given a hard No as you wouldn't even entertain the idea to propose to other shareholders.

 

[Cam]

That didn't answer the question.

I asked you if you're open for negotiating, which would involve you asking other parties if that were the case, and coming back with a Yes or a No. Or, you could've given a hard No as you wouldn't even entertain the idea to propose to other shareholders.

We're not interested in negotiating a sale.

 

[Ant]

Well howdy, I go by Cam. I recognize quite a few usernames around here, but there are some new faces too. Glad to be here.

Welcome!

 

[Cedric]

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Thanks.

@Cam - Of all boards you administrate, which ones gives you the most pleasure? And which ones was the most challenging to take over?

 

[Bawse]

Welcome @Cam to Administrata. I have no idea where I recognize you from.

 

[Cam]

Topic has been cleaned. Take it up to DM’s if you wish to continue the earlier conversation. No more posts in that matter will be tolerated.

Thanks.

@Cam - Of all boards you administrate, which ones gives you the most pleasure? And which ones was the most challenging to take over?

The most pleasure? FP for sure. Hard to believe I joined the forum 15 years ago.

The most challenging? DSF. I know you saw some of that, but it seemed like I couldn't do anything right for a while there.

 

[fdk]

@Cam I vaguely remember an Irish fella called Fergal owning FP at some point in the distant past... I believe he also owned another forum called Business Advice Forum around the time... do you know what come of that guy, or if he's still around now?

 

[Cedric]

The most pleasure? FP for sure. Hard to believe I joined the forum 15 years ago.

The most challenging? DSF. I know you saw some of that, but it seemed like I couldn't do anything right for a while there.

Yeah it was definitely a hard audience from what I could see. So much improvements but not much appreciation. Hope that's better now.

 

[Cam]

@Cam I vaguely remember an Irish fella called Fergal owning FP at some point in the distant past... I believe he also owned another forum called Business Advice Forum around the time... do you know what come of that guy, or if he's still around now?

Yep, Fergal was the owner of FP when I joined. It’s probably been a good ten years since he sold it. He’s still around. He logs in every so often on FP, but he’s also running ForumCoin still.

Yeah it was definitely a hard audience from what I could see. So much improvements but not much appreciation. Hope that's better now.

Plenty of the people griping left unfortunately. Not sure what else you do there though. Should I have kept using outdated 15 year old software? IDK.