Is it my imagination or have the main admins stopped posting too?
No - they seem to have - probably don't know it's back up, or are too busy baleeting and downloading to shout into the abyss.
You have valid points and the smart buyers would know that but the current event at hand shows not all would do the proper research before buying. I think it was Barnum who said "There's one born every minute."
Well it'll also be immeasurably smaller when everyone is finished - it won't have such and such fan content - it will be a shadow of its former self, with graffiti all over it, and angry shit all over the place - and a terrible reputation. He let it go down for one day, and already there's far less optimism than there once was.
Of course, there is one born every minute, and Walt may make money at it. It strikes me that before he gets over his arrogance though (still hasn't checked in) that it will all be too late. He doesn't have a clue how to handle sims community drama - it's not enough to just say "get over it" or "if you want to leave, leave" - that's a quick way of killing a forum. Fucking over the staff - that's a big mistake too - it would be a spam farm there if they're not caring for it. He may have bought a big fansite - but he's going to have to sell a small fansite, and once I know where everything stands, I'll be removing my link to insim, and I'm sure a lot of others will do so also. He may just be the last sucker in line once he's through with his management techniques - particularly if everyone is saying Yay! Pescado.
Furthermore, he'll have to invest far more time to stop all those bitter people who will leave messages about "Insim is dead, come to Reinsim" etc. just like TSR has to do. I think he'll give it up as a bad job.
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