Largest forum you DELETED?

Discussion in 'Managing Your Online Community' started by Venom, Dec 6, 2009.

  1. Venom

    Venom Adept

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    What was the largest forum you deleted? How many posts/members did it have? I know it's a random question, but it's an honest and serious question and my curiousity leads me to it.

    And by "deleted" I simply refer to deleting the entire site/all the files/the database/etc.
     
  2. Noles

    Noles Adept

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    None. :eek:
     
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  3. Michael

    Michael Regular Member

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    I think around 4k posts 400 members. My girlfriend did have a forum with a lot larger stats which she got rid of which had 22k posts and over 1k members.
     
  4. BananaQueen

    BananaQueen Grand Master

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    cant remember how many members, but we had 15000 posts, and we didnt exactly get rid of it, its just that it was on proboards, and i had discovered phpbb, and didnt know if you could transfer over the posts and stuff so just made a new one and deleted the old one
     
  5. Tex

    Tex Adept

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    My first forum, had around 1,000 members, 50,000 posts.

    There were too many forums for that particular niche, most of which were much better forums than my own. Although we had many members and posts, the site was not very active on a daily basis. We saw maybe 2-5 members visiting every few weeks. Given the lack of activity, competition, and cost to keep the site up I decided to focus my efforts on my second forum which was starting to really take off at that time.
     
  6. Nick

    Nick Regular Member

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    Probably about 10,000 posts and a couple hundred of members.
     
  7. Mikey

    Mikey Mikeylicio.us

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    40 members, 500 posts? Heh.
     
  8. Soliloquy

    Soliloquy Regular Member

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    Why delete? I'd either turn the site over to someone interested in running it or sell the database.
     
  9. kneel

    kneel Regular Member

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    i agree.
     
  10. Paul M

    Paul M Dr Pepper Addict

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    None ...
     
  11. Venom

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    That's not the point of this thread though. This thread simply asked what was the largest forum you deleted, not "Which is best? Deleting a forum or selling a forum?" in which there's an obvious answer.
     
  12. cpvr

    cpvr Regular Member

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    About 2k members and 60k posts. I was trying to change some things and I ended up deleting the forums without any backups. I was new to forum running.
     
  13. AWS

    AWS Administrator Admin Talk Staff

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    Largest site had 15K members and a little under 100K posts. It got over run by code thiefs who stole the user posted source and didn't attribute the use to the original poster.
     

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