The sysopt story

[fluffycow]

Im kinda new to the sysopt forums, and ive heard people talking about something that happened and how a lot of people went over to here. I don't know what though. What happened with sysopt? why did you guys come over here?

[Gomer]

This is what used to be Sysopt... if that makes any sense

[Gomer]

welcome to Techimo BTW =)

In 1994 I founded SysOpt.com, and later, ResellerRatings.com. In 1999 after years of profitability in an effort to obtain more resources, I transferred the sites to EarthWeb and stayed on board as Editor-in-Chief. In Dec. 2000, EarthWeb transferred the sites to Internet.com, and I agreed to stay as Editor-in-Chief until Sept. 2001, when I was a casualty of budget reductions. - Scott Wainner

In short, after Internet.com aquired SysOpt, they cut the budget and the staff, and terminiated the employment of everyone on the SysOpt staff except the sites founder, Scott Wainner. Scott continued to do everything by himself and made numerous improvements to the site while working very long hours to continue to make SysOpt a great place for it's members. Internet.com either didn't notice, or didn't appreciate the effort and also effectively cut him out of the budget in September 2001, at which point, he created TechIMO. Unlike Inet.com, the overwhelming majority of the membership did apprieciate Scott and what he spent years creating, so most of the long-time members chose to follow him to his new site.

Welcome to TechIMO

Soul of a site=members.

What more can I say?

[Richard Cranium]

yeah, what he said.

And if anyone says anything about Scott, I punch em in the snozzle. j/k

We do stick up for ours though, also we appreciate the dedication Scott and the rest of the mgmt team have put into this site.

[fluffycow]

so are you guys against the people that stayed at sysopt or something, and why did so many poeple stay?

[nunyadam]

Somebody stayed?

nobody here is against them, just not with them. (imo)

[angelcat]

fluffycow,

You have found a great home here at TechIMO. I cannot remark about Sysopt, because I joined here after my husband clued me in (He was having so much fun, I HAD to find out why! LOL) about this place. The people here are wonderful. They encourage each other, and treat new members with the greatest respect. That is not to say, they do not have fun.

I knew very little about computers, other than to run a few programs, like graphic editors, and games. But, with the help of some very kind souls here, I am learing more and more every day.

This is why I stay here. It is the people.

[fatal xception]

Sniff...group hug.

Welcome!