I'm curious how that works. Who has the say to change anything? Who gets paid? If I'm paid to run a forum, am I an employee of the company that owns the forum? I don't get it.

It depends on the forums purpose. If you are looking at a company forum that supports a product or a product line, then yes the forum mods are usually employees of the company, however they usually have another job within the company.



Forums that just sell advertising, banners, etc.... and don't use the forum as an outlet for their products usually use volunteers in the lower level administration and have one admin who is an employee keep a handle on them.

Ahh, ok. I was thinking rxclub, and bikeforums.com, places like that, owned by Internet Brands (or whatever it's called).

they own them, they sell advertising, people help them for free and do not realize they are a sucker

IB could care less what the forum is about, they are just selling advertising

EXACTLY what Rob said LOL.

I need to start a business, completely FOR profit, and ask people to volunteer to be my employees. Genius.

I don't want to burst your bubble. but the American Red Cross already beat you to that one.

it is amazing, a totally make believe way to make a living, you do not have many employees, no product, no service.

You wait for someone ELSE to build a site, get followers- then you come in and pay them peanuts for the site.

Sell advertising and links, etc..



No insurance, no workers comp, no storefront, nothing.



******* genius I tell you- and the BEST part ? THEY MAKE THE ******* SOFTWARE that everyone else uses anyhow

yea internet brands owns vbulletin so if yer paying for that **** yer paying right into your future masters pockets LOL

There seems to be a lot of buying lately. I've had several people contact me and want to buy this shitbox and a couple of forums I hang out on have been bought out, which if it's buy some place like internet brands I quickly move to another smaller forum.