DSF

Haha,

We are the biggest plastering forum to exist #:-) I started it 6 years ago and have built it up. We use to have a few competitors but most gave up trying to compete We are now one of the leading authorities in the plastering industry which means we get a lot of product development work.

We recently helped British Gypsum design the new plaster bags, we are also helping another tool manufacturer develop a better trowel

When a new product comes to the market they come to us to launch it and if its a sucky product we wont do it and literally that product will struggle to sell Butr if we say its good then they will sell a lot

But a busy forum doesnt come without its problems... we get libel defamation cases thrown at us a lot and I have death threats and what not...lol

Overall forums are good fun

Danny

lol sounds like fun Danny

i know what you mean i run a forum also so know the hassles that come with it
i've been threatened with legal action but thankfully no death threats

what makes me laugh is when i have to ban someone they go to great lengths to try and get back on
i love it because it makes me realise how much ppl want to be a part of my site

when i started it there was 1 main competitor who was in the process of selling his site
i offered to buy it but he turned me down and went to a big us firm
within 1 week all the members had left and came to me
i went from a few members to hundreds over night :O
talk about scary

but the original owner then tried to do a character slander against me
in the end i had to see a solicitor and get advice
he wanted to sue this chap as he was loaded lol
but thankfully i managed to talk to him and calm things down and thankfully didn't hear any more from him
that was 2 yrs ago now

we go through dull patches and then go busy again
but i'd still love more ppl on there but getting good staff is also the hard bit

We are fairly busy most of the time have about 200 or so members a day logged in so and about 300 new posts each day..

Its hectic but hey ho