Internet Brands Acquires MiataTurbo.net
 

This is to let you know that MT has been acquired by Internetbrands.com

I haven't been active in sometime with the exception of the management side / bills side of things and haven’t really been able to enjoy the community as I have off and on. The great staff here made it easy for me to be away to deal with real life & health related drama. I have taken great pride in knowing that I was a small part in building this great community, perhaps not to the degree I wanted but none the less, I showed up.

It will be business as usual here. Internetbrands.com is known for putting the community and site first. You can look at any of their acquirement’s and you will see they don't mess with what works. They are a professional company with more bodies to assist the staff and users than I could ever imagine having here; I have always been a 1 man operation with the exception of the site volunteers. This means there will be someone always available which is something I couldn’t always make myself. Also take into consideration IB owns the software we run on (vBulletin) and is always growing and expanding their business which in many cases benefits this and many other sites in their collective.

Internetbrands brings capital, staff and marketing to really take this site to the next level. This means more options and more opportunities for our members and it means a bigger busier site for you guys!

I am gracious and appreciate everything everyone has done for me with taking care of this forum. Enjoy it, have fun, its your home.


Rick



ok ok, outside of my generic good bye that I planned to use (cut and pasted and worked on it for sometime..) so that I wouldn't write something like this..... You guys have been awesome and by far lead, run, create, are a part of one of the best forums I myself have ever been a part of. All the times vendors / members would gripe at me because of what another MT user did was all worth it. Nothing changes with the exception of me leaving to focus on my real life & health, I need it. IB Nolan and the guys at IB have been great to deal with and if you know their other sites (ls1tech etc) you know they keep things in as is.

So...

May good things come to each and everyone of you who has allowed me to be a part of something so amazing (eating me up writing it, i ---- you not)

To the friends I made on here. You guys were a bigger part of my life and happiness outside of MT than you were here. I appreciate the chats, the laughs, phone calls and all the things that brought us together. I am looking forward to Shuiend yelling at me more on SC2 and more of Braineacks lack of talking on vent :p Ari, i will try and convince my wife to use your name and Alex, BF (battlefield not bf the way you are thinking) in the future if you will have me. Matt. voltage is strong. Trey, thanks for complicating day to day operations with your awesomeness. LOL

You guys know it and its gayish to remind you, but you all rock and are some of the people I will remember for a life time.

http://www.lolsorry.com/images/regret.gif

You sir get NEGATIVE PROPS for selling out.

I needed that laugh..

but really, you did neg props me..lol :fawk:

Best responce ever. +1.


Rick, sad to see you go. Thanks for not going with autoforums. I wish you all the best for you and your family.

Plus the kick-back and continued admin status doesn't hurt.

Prop +1

Sad day.

Why is everyone selling?
Is the internet forum business experincing the same financial "bubble" as the housing market and only the big dawgs get to compete anymore? geez

I look forward to the loss of my moderatorship, lol.

Your company kill all them people in India not too long ago?

Internet forums have the potential to be a better marketing system than fagbook could ever be. If I had extreme amounts of money to throw around, I'd buy forums and start implementing my own ideas into them. On a small scale, just think about the forum specific vendors we have on here.

Everyone thinks facebook is the most genius creation for marketing and advertising. I believe that forums can stomp facebook in the ---- when it comes down to it. Probably one of the main reasons big companies are eating them up.

Anyways, thanks for being an awesome admin Rick. You know you'll miss all those "you guys are a bunch of dickbags" emails though. lol

Good luck with everything!! :bigtu:

I can now deadlift my bodyweight. why would i let this happen?

Good luck Rick!

We ALL await the return of Hustler 1.0 .

Good luck, Rick. Esp with your health.

No we do not, we do not need a Hustler with 10k posts and no turbo installed on his car.

I miss rick already.

oh and negative props.

+1 to -1.

April Fools' day is less than a week away...you could have waited a few days just for the kicks.

I tried to get Rick to get it written into the contract that the new owners had to use Phillips account. He would not do it.

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Can I haz POZ stories?
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Sad to see yeah go Rick, good luck in life.

it acutally would have been a funny april fools prank to do it on april 1st but be totally serious.

I poz'd that ----. Till next time Rick.

We really should have scared trey with a "Philip is back" joke.

Sad to see you go Rick, it's been fun. I look forward to seeing you online again for the usual games.

Now you get to double it, like a man.

Thanks, baller.

Rick, you rock. Glad you're focusing on you, but sad you're "leaving".

rick!!! lets play some sc2 sometime =)

jeez we've only known about the existence of the deadlift for four months and a week.

I'll miss ya Rick.

Hope all goes well for ya.

gONNA miss you rickroll.

Who's going to fix the billing/subscription/autorenew issues we all get ever xxxx months?

Are we also doing reverse hypers, power cleans, squats, and good mornings?

On a related note, related to this thread at least, circus presses are making me huge.

we are doing deadlifts, squats, chess presses, bench presses, pulldowns, and rows right now.

Are you girls working out together? Cute.
Add reverse hypers and powercleans solely to reduce the potetial for injury. Add good mornings for extreme spinae errector strength (and weird looks). I recently added SLSquats to the list to strengthen my knees (needs a wider seat, again). You need to work delts, back day should be your longest, hardest workout, and you need to start doing grip work now...get back to me when you have a 16.5" forearm.

Did you get off the gloves yet or are you still being a woman?

look nancy, why dont you just come down here and trainer us for a few days instead of typing on a forum.

I'll wait till I'm in prision.

Hustler is the proverbial 12 year old fat pasty white kid typing in his parents' basement.

In any case, will the new ownership cause him to be banned the next time he spews filth?

This?
http://forgifs.com/gallery/d/197718-...rmance-art.gif

don't forget the snatch

I have a scarf, ask Y8s.

I will verify that this is true. I have seen him in it.

I'm so wet right now

yep, so have I.

:laugh:

I'm a real man, when my neck gets cold I either tough it out or pop my collar.
Certainly none of this scarf bullhonky...

Subtle 99% post.

Maybe we can get tapatalk now? :-)

Maybe we can finally ban all the gays.

lol @ props repping gay hate:
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1332983761

:bowrofl:
I hopped you would notice.

I love repping the worst posts possible, lol. I can already here Brain's convo with the new overloards, "No, I'm telling you...Hustler has severe mental issues and he's generally unstable. Did I mention that he's armed? Yes, it's true, he made a leisure suit out of a pig when he was a Cambodian POW. He's the most heavily armed haberdasher I know."

If I had any photoshop skills I would put a picture of your avatars face over rambo and you would have a new avatar foeva

I almost changed it last night but I backed-out...this one is too good.

Post would be avatar and I'll be the judge of 'dat.

Can we uncensore this forum now?

I'm out. So long guys.

Maybe later. I'm too naked right now.

Thats a BIG ------- +1 right there!! :bigtu:

hahaha nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!:rofl :

Internet bra, lol. They hold the internet up.

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This is a joke, right? I know Rick does a lot of work to keep the fanboys in check for you, but we like yous guys here.

Sad to see :(.

Hopefully, IB will be a bit better than they were with another forum I used to frequent - went downhill man, went downhill big time.

Miataturbo looks different for me.

IB bought Diesel Bombers about a year ago and we've seen very little change in who ran the place and how.

^ from my dad, one of the admins in diesel bombers.

I personally like the censorship. It allows those of us at work to look at the forums with less risk.