Insim under new management!

[vindi]

Pes why don't you post your graph over there if you haven't just to make him look like a total asshat.

Like that guy needs help looking like an asshat! That's probably the only thing he studied besides history. But posting the graph would be excellent pwnage.

[Yaardarm Monkey II]

Pes why don't you post your graph over there if you haven't just to make him look like a total asshat.

Problem is, the site has to be working to post any graphs...and most of the time I'm getting "server is busy"  

edit:  page 6 has the buyawebsite info on revenue/expenses, page 7 has Delphy posting some delicious graphs
http://www.insimenator.net/showthread.php?t=100055&page=7

[catbyte]

I'm a lurker here and the Insim sale is really distressing.

I got this when I logged in just now (after several "Server Busy" messages"):



Not wasting any time, is he?

[Missbonbon]

Oh well I've been avoiding visiting that site for fear that his low IQ is contagious.

[neriana]

Okay, my mind is still reeling from this idiot's Great Depression spiel. I'm not a specialist in 20th century American history, but of course I have studied some basic things about it -- and I mean actually studied, under professors, not watched a show on The History Channel about them, as Walt apparently has.

But one does not need to have studied history to see that his analogy doesn't work at all. People expected to pay for movies, which were not incidentally really cheap to go to at the time. A better parallel would be things people don't expect to pay for, like dances or picnics. People who could afford it did contribute food and money to those, but it was a very small investment all done for the sake of community. No one was expected to profit from them!

Hey Walt: your last name isn't Disney. Also a quick trip to Wikipedia might dim your enthusiasm a tad. "As the Great Depression deepened, MGM could make a claim its rivals could not: it never lost money. It was the only Hollywood studio that continued to pay dividends during the 1930s."

[Piratey]

I noticed the "We buy websites!" link on Stupid Walt's website. Kathy and Eric must have gotten desperate, filled in the form and sold Insim in about five minutes.

[kenmtl]

For the younguns and non-members, here's the post from Insim Adult:

The Firestorm
           *lots of stuff!*
More later.

Ya that all sounds fine and good, and I would like to think the best. However, when you arrives in the community to say hello and announce yourself thus,

We're Under New Management!

New Server Planned

InSIMenator.net Needs To Stabilize Its Donation Model

Current Bills Are High — Donations Are Needed Right Now!!!

it still makes me go , hmmmm.

So if he really didn't know what he was getting in to I'm waiting for the announcement that negotiations are under way to pass this whole mess off to someone else. Otherwise I think big changes are going to be occurring over at InSim.

Personally I don't think "skimming a little bit of the top" would be quite sufficient for someone like that considering the work involved to keep 2 sites running and active.
It one thing when you're personally invested in the content and have connections to the community involved. But that's not really the case is it? So I'm sorry but my Spidey senses are all a tingle over this one. Besides he talks like a telemarketer and they just get right up the crack of my ass.

[justso]

The guy just doesn't listen at all.  He keeps going on about insimadult  not making enough donations.  People have explained that because of paypal restrictions on adult content they had to donate to the adult site via the main site. 

[Anyerfillag]

Can't post a screencap at the moment, but one of InSIM creators Mellisenda has already removed all her creations and will be uploading them elsewhere. Has anyone else seen others taking down their downloads?

[calalily]

Hilarious - I'm watching the video on his site - he talks about authoritative websites linking to you is the way to go - the BBS doesn't allow links to Insim. And all the fansites use pictures - so google doesn't rate them the same way.  That plan is fail.

His business seems to be selling links to businesses, and then embedding that content on the page, so as to form a webring type thingie.  

Can't post a screencap at the moment, but one of InSIM creators Mellisenda has already removed all her creations and will be uploading them elsewhere.

Link for those gawkers like me: http://www.insimenator.net/showthread.php?t=76291

[Quinctia]

His business seems to be selling links to businesses, and then embedding that content on the page, so as to form a webring type thingie. 

A webring?  That's so 1995.

[SoggyFox]

Yeah - I'm giving serious thought to trying to start up my own site as well.  I know how to do clean html, even if I'm rusty.  I don't have tons of content to share, but I've been more creative lately, and so I've been trying to do some stuff as I can, and of course there is always MTS2 as well.

I just....I'm still upset.  I can't imagine then just up and selling like this - someone on insim said it was a family - who sells their family?

[Quorneater]

We don't even know who he is really.  If Eric and kathy could pretend they hardly had enough money to pay the costs of the site when in fact they were running at $2500 profit a month, what's to say they can't be pretending to be called Walt now, so as to deflect some of the personal attacks they would have found themselves under with this change of tactic?   On the sock puppet theory, remember the sock has to put a distance between himself and the hand up his ass.  What was the first thing Walt felt he needed to say to us?  "I don't play The Sims".  Now that's a funny opening gambit when you think of all the things he could have said to *close* the gap between him and us!   He's trying to appear as different from his puppet masters (or co-conspirators) as he possibly can.

[Lilwen]

I bet he wonders what the hell he has gotten into.Pity he didn't lurk for a while before putting all his monies into a community web site.

[calalily]

We don't even know who he is really.  If Eric and kathy could pretend they hardly had enough money to pay the costs of the site when in fact they were running at $2500 profit a month, what's to say they can't be pretending to be called Walt now, so as to deflect some of the personal attacks they would have found themselves under with this change of tactic?  

It doesn't strike me as the sort of thing Kathy and Eric would do - they are absolutely crap at organisation and this one would take a lot of planning.  Every time they come back they just make more rules, and take an opportunity to have a go at everyone for everything over the last 3 months, ask for money and leave again.  I don't see why they would make a far more elaborate plan this time.

But you're right in not knowing who he is - I for one am glad I don't have any real information for myself in my Insim profiles.