Originally posted by Webdude
Personally I dont like the idea of RS owning WHT. I have often heard Microsoft claim what RS claims...preservation of the service. It's bull. A smaller less aggressive host I wouldnt have a problem with since they would most likely do it for the advert rotation revenue potential, not abuse. But one as large as RS?? They did it to spit in the face of all the other hosts there. "Look what I can do!"...yeah, and?
Our office was actually going to make a bid. Had we done so, I think we would have gotten it because it was higher than the rumored selling price. But I took a step back and looked at it for what it is. It's a forum with less than 200 people per day coming there on a regular basis. If they cleaned out all inactive members, they would most likely have less than 300 after that. Out of the couple hundred that visit each day, most have a host they are with that they are happy with, and the rest are hosts themselves. The only reason for a host to buy it would be to spit in the faces of all the other hosts there, of course, they arent going to openly admit they are doing it for that reason... So I had no intention of making an offer after I came to that conclusion. Better worded, they are doing it for the bragging rights where they can say all these other hosts use THEIR forum.. I will never put myself or my company under the thumb of another host of that size in that manner.
Was it worth $30,000? No. Maybe $10,000 and that's pushing it. Since it did sell high, I agree with one post I saw in that thread there...the mods should get at least a small % of the money since they basically did all the work to keep it fairly cleaned up. I dont blame Matt for taking the money....I just dont like the fact that a wannabe miniature Microsoft now has control of it. CIHost could have bought it up just as fast, and would have made all the same promises and used all the same words that HS is doing.
Personally I would have been far happier to see someone like Peo be able to buy it out..