Who is the site owner or big Admin here on Classic Oldsmobile.

Someone that has total control.

 

This is a corporate commercial website and it exists solely for advertising, mostly targeted niche marketing, nobody here owns it.
Internet Brands Inc. is the owner and they have 92 sites of all kinds, put just about any car or truck company name in front of the word "forum" and they have a site named that, along with CO they own the Oldsmobileforum too. They also own the vBulletin program deal that runs all their sites and lots of others too, not a fly by night operation.
They let us have the use of the site and the administrators and moderators take care of it day to day and we all look at the ads, win-win situation.

Oldsguy and Omicron are the only administrators I know of?
I would say that Oldsguy is the top dog though.

The "total control" would probably be had by a webmaster at Internet Brands and his/her higher ups, they keep pretty much hands-off and work through the site administrators as far as I know.
I've never seen any correspondence directly from anybody at Internet Brands here.
As long as we're good and follow the rules we hopefully never will either.



http://www.internetbrands.com/

 

"Total control," huh? I'm curious as to why you want to know. Are you planning to stage a coup or something?

 

You need to start with Oldsguy and work your way up from there. PM him and he will answer your questions. I have always found Dan easy to work with

 

No way I would let someone else at a hosting company run my VB software. At the least have a dedicated, colo, or perhaps a vhost server and run VB yourself.

 

Lot of hassle and expense trying to run a site this size. Hackers, legal issues etc etc.

Team Chevelle used to be privatly owned, but it just got too big and took too much of the guys time. Finnaly sold out to Autoforums a year ago(not sure if its the same that owns this place).

Can't say I blame him one bit... but having been a longtime user over there (10 years) it really sucks to lose the personal touch the site had before.

Seems like last year the big corporations really "took over". I know of at least 4 or 5 car message boards that were all private last year and were aquired by big companies.

Good stable investment with a captive audience for their ads. Good because they have dedicated server management & backups & security, keep the servers running faster & more stable.

But in many cases bad for the users who were used to a more personal touch.

Luckily this place has always been like this in the short time i've been here, so i don't know any different.

 

My vhost is $29.99/mth and VB is a one time fee of $195 with yearly subscription. I don't think that is expensive at all.

And I am sure this site makes enough from Google Adsense to cover the costs EASILY.

 

Free Adsense tips for admins in case they don't already know... try to squeeze in a 300x250 text ad and linkunit on the main index page (a linkunit between 1st and 2nd post of a thread also), or page that gets the most hits. They always do the best and some big advertisers choose 300x250 and the like specifically and pay more PC.
Image ads don't always do as well.

 

Off topic sorta. I am also a member of a local board that gets about 3-4 times more traffic as this place. Its gained the attention of these big corps and they ended up buying it for an undisclosed amount but inside sources say it was $25Kish.

Once the new owners came in and changed some rules (basicly trying to make the place Politcally Correct) and rubbing a few regular poster the wrong way. With in one week a cue was staged and new site with a very similar name was started and everyone petty much burned the other site to the ground on the way out in just a few days. What ever the corporate company invested in now worth nothing in less than two weeks. It was pretty funny watching it all happen.

 

LOL- thats awesome.

 

That's actually kinda a let down truthfully.
So this is just a random corporate owned website......
Here I thought this was owned by a person.

But I thank you very much for that information. I needed something done
and an Admin is the type who has the powers to do it.

As I am as well, Nastyz28 which is 10x more active.
It's owned and operated by 2 owners.
Some forums aren't that populated, this is actually the slowest I've been on.

2 quick ways to gauge a forums activity and member base is
#1. Look at the current members online during main business hours. (Only 20-25 usually here)
#2. Look at the threads in the columns last posting dates.
There's another Olds forum I like to use to show people what a dead forum looks like.....Olds Power

TeamChevelle is a very slow moving board like this one, and it's not bandwidth demanding either.
Hence......why I'm shocked this is corporate owned. This is a small operation.

 

I just set up a new forum site called www.oldsmobileclassic.com Let's all go this a dump this horrible corporate waste of bandwith. Who's on board?




Truthfully... I really do enjoy being a memeber here. Lots of great info and help. I laugh at something everyday and am not interested in changing it.

Keep up the good work, everyone!

Adam

 

Does anyone know who to contact for a banner on the site?

 

PM me.

 

I will find out

 

Aceshigh and BIGJERR, you've got a PM from me about this.