Banned From 3SI - You'll Love This

**Nytron** · 02-28-2011, 07:40 AM

Reality check: 3si was sold to a company that manages car forum communities. And when I say "manages", that really means they place ads all over the place and take a cut out of sales/group buys (which stifles sales, killed off group buys). This was a fatal error on the part of the original 3si owners. Hosting vbulletin (even a high traffic forum) in this day in age is not an expensive ordeal at all, under $200 a month easily (I could do it for closer to $100).

They're main interest is in monetizing the forum, 3si is nothing more than a money making bulletin board system for them. Nothing that the 3si admins do should surprise anyone, we gave the dog a bone and now we're pissed it's chewing on it. In the mind of the 3si admins, it probably works like this: NG coverage = giving 3sgto more userbase = less 3si traffic/money.

The thing is though, 3si is a vast decade old knowledgebase on the 3/s platform. When you google something about our cars, chances are 3si is the first result. It will take years and years of us talking about all those same things that were on 3si on 3sgto.