Who owns TPF?

Heitz · Aug 20, 2012

I'm curious. Who owns this site?
Who chooses the Admins and Mods?

Just wondering.

Kazooie · Aug 20, 2012

Me, I own it all.

480sparky · Aug 20, 2012

I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.

charlie76 · Aug 20, 2012

TPF is a division of Walmart....didn't u know?

Heitz · Aug 20, 2012

It might be a conglomeration of mexican warlords. That or the mafia. Probably the mafia.

revenater · Aug 20, 2012

Im with Charlie, Wal-mart owns it. They have a piece of everything these days.

mishele · Aug 20, 2012

Kazooie said:
Me, I own it all.

<SLAP>
I OWN IT ALL!!!

Kazooie · Aug 20, 2012

It was made in China.

texkam · Aug 21, 2012

"It's run by a big eastern syndicate, you know."

PhotoWrangler · Aug 21, 2012

revenater said:
Im with Charlie, Wal-mart owns it. They have a piece of everything these days.

It's a walmart-esque company. They own 120 forums with the biggest section of their forums being powersports. And their offices are near Austin, TX....

Per the privacy statement:

"Privacy Policy

The Forum Foundry Network is comprised of a vast collection of forum and blog communities. We have a particular strength in the Technology sector with both our Android and iPhone/iPad focused communities. We also have the internet’s largest powersports network which features a large collection of SXS/UTV, ATV and Motorcycle communities.
Our network sees over 6 million unique visitors per month and over 30 million pageviews per month."

JoshuaSimPhotography · Aug 21, 2012

If you go to any member, the url has the member number within in it.http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/members/125221.html I am the 125221st member, so I replaced the number with ‘1’ and I think this is the owner:http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/members/1.html

PhotoWrangler · Aug 21, 2012

JoshuaSimPhotography said:
If you go to any member, the url has the member number within in it.http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/members/125221.html I am the 125221st member, so I replaced the number with ‘1’ and I think this is the owner:http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/members/1.html

Thatss just an admin account set up by the company I mentioned above.

More importantly.... because of your little diddy about member numbers, I'm now going through 1 by 1 to see who joined when. Thanks Josh. I appreciate that. There could have been a thousand things that I could have gotten done today, but noooooo... now I have to go through member numbers!

Helen B · Aug 21, 2012

It wasn't started by Forums-R-Us but by someone who was actually interested in photography more than cash. Forums-R-Us bought it. I don't think they care much about quality or content (unless nanny disapproves of it), as long as the cash rolls in.

Heitz · Aug 21, 2012

Helen B said:
It wasn't started by Forums-R-Us but by someone who was actually interested in photography more than cash. Forums-R-Us bought it. I don't think they care much about quality or content (unless nanny disapproves of it), as long as the cash rolls in.

Interesting...Helen, what makes you say that?

Bitter Jeweler · Aug 21, 2012

ChristopherCoy said:
Per the privacy statement:

"Privacy Policy

The Forum Foundry Network is comprised of a vast collection of forum and blog communities. We have a particular strength in the Technology sector with both our Android and iPhone/iPad focused communities. We also have the internet’s largest powersports network which features a large collection of SXS/UTV, ATV and Motorcycle communities.
Our network sees over 6 million unique visitors per month and over 30 million pageviews per month."

Gives one a moment to think about who is laughing all the way to the bank, every time you pay your $25 subscription fee to "support" the forum, doesn't it?