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New Owners
- Thread starter Randy
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It usually leads to the forum declining, sadly. New owners, unless they come from within the community itself, rarely understand what they've taken on and it drives the members away.
Typically suffer, but sometimes they get better.
Usually a steady decline into obsolescence
Promotion forums and Admin forums can usually do well with new owners but close-knit general discussion type communities usually don't survive an owner change. I can think of one forum off the top of my head that had decent activity and then it was sold and rapidly declined into a ghost town.
Another all too common theme, sadly. Buy up as many forums as they can, merge them into their existing forum and make it seem that their forum is somehow more successful and active than it truly is. It's a terrible tactic to use.
New owners are the worst thing to happen to a forum. I'd prefer if the OG owner does step down they give it to an established user or staff member instead. Yeah, they can suffer due to the ownership changing. I've seen forums decline in activity with new owners or an owner before.
Nothing wrong with merging a forum, but they should have been upfront with you beforehand so you can make an informed decision before deciding whether or not to sell. Even though you are parting ways with your forum, its still your baby and you want the best for it.
A lot of forums used to do this back in the day. They'd just merge and basically that was it.
What types of policy changes have you seen?
Indeed. I can think of one that used to be poppin' now its as dead as a doornail.
I like to give them a chance and see what they do.
Yes, some, others do well.
One site I ended up leaving because the new owners seemed to tolerate drama with members or members that continuously created drama. The atmosphere was just terrible.
