LOOKING FIT Acquires TanToday.com

[Alan @ TanToday]

Ann, again we will agree to disagree.

If facilitating the personal attacks on my wife makes you a top Mod, then Maria takes the cake. As Admin on that now dead site, go figure, she allowed people like TWO & Sheila to run free saying whatever they wanted about whomever regardless of whether it was false, slanderous, enter nice legal term for lies, etc. I get that the only dialogue going on was posted by these few members but when the line was crossed, Maria looked away. My wife has not been on these boards in 3 years yet she allowed people to go run their mouths at will. Kudos! I am really glad Maria does not have a plat"forum" to speak to the indoor tanning industry anymore.

[Maria]

Originally Posted by Alan @ TanToday

Ann, again we will agree to disagree.

If facilitating the personal attacks on my wife makes you a top Mod, then Maria takes the cake. As Admin on that now dead site, go figure, she allowed people like TWO & Sheila to run free saying whatever they wanted about whomever regardless of whether it was false, slanderous, enter nice legal term for lies, etc. I get that the only dialogue going on was posted by these few members but when the line was crossed, Maria looked away. My wife has not been on these boards in 3 years yet she allowed people to go run their mouths at will. Kudos! I am really glad Maria does not have a plat"forum" to speak to the indoor tanning industry anymore.

Thanks Ann.

Alan, you are wrong...on several points. I will not argue or debate. You are entitled to your opinion and respect it as such.

p.s. Agreed that may "Scary Fleshrot" Rest In Peace.

[Alan @ TanToday]

What goes around comes around. I watched you guys over at the graveyard bash me and then my wife. When you allowed people to cross that line, the gloves came off.

No offense Maria, but why are you here again?

[TonyG]

As Admin on that now dead site

Alan, that site is alive and well. Some idiot posts "Peachfish" every day, and there is a recent thread with nothing but porno pictures, and also an interesting post from someone who wants to invest in Dubai.

It's a hell of a good resource to the tanning industry.

[dbl-a]

THIS THREAD SUCKS! I made a simple post when it was started and now I keep getting emails of you two bitching. Find another forum to post on if it's not going to be about tanning. Both of you. Grow up!

[Brian Oshman]

dbl-a,

SHADAAAAAP!!!!

These people have history you are not a part of. Let them finish it out.

If you are sick of getting e-mails about recent posts then uncheck that feature in your user profile.

[kookyguy]

Hey Tony,


PEACHFISH!!!!!!! YA LIL GIRL

[solarmeter®]

At least his ugly peachfishy avatar pic is GONE.

[Alan @ TanToday]

Back to topic, Looking Fit acquired TanToday a month ago.

The world didn't come to an end and TanToday is still the site that you all loved so well.

[SunMan49]

The purpose of Forums is to be an open platform for the free thinker. It allows freedom of coice for ANYONE to say ANYTHING.

When you mix corporate greed in the mix all freedom of voice is gone. Once again the boardrooms across America are squeeizng out the free thinkers of the world.

I, like many here, remember the old days when Bruce started TanToday. A true Free Thinker for all us 'wannabes'. I have spent time as a moderator on a competing site over the years as well.
I no longer see the value in these forums.
I have a business to concentrate on...the fun is over.
Good-Bye and Good Luck

[Alan @ TanToday]

Glad you got that off your chest. I am sure you feel alot better now. Good luck with your business which obviously should be everyone's focus.

TanToday is a tool to help salon owners grow and hopefully shorten that learning curve by reading gobs of information posted by salon owners all over the globe.

[e4God.com]

Well, there I was, checking out site rankings at Alexa.com for my hobby sites and all of a sudden - I find my name being mentioned favorably here at good old TanToday.com.

Amazing... Wonders may never cease...

First - Congrats to all: To Alan for getting something out of his work.... (well, we can hope). To Bruce for seeing his brainchild grow up and come of age, and to Looking Fit, especially Jenny and Co., for "getting it".

Back in 1996/1997 or so it was my great joy to to envision the use of the web as a business growth empowering discussion forum for tanning industry members. I thought it could be a year round trade show sort of thing. By this I don't mean the commercial part of trade shows, but the meeting of minds part. The best things to come from trade shows were never the formal meetings, but all the informal discussions that took place between peers - both after hours and in the halls between sessions. So I kicked off the online thing for salon owners and industry members by building what I called a "TOWN" at the interesection of Tanning and Technology.

SunTanning.com was a wild ride! In the beginning, salon owners and industry members truly helped each other in an unprecedented way. Soon we had 2000 people a day meeting online and it really took off.

Bruce took it to a whole new level - at TanToday.com. It was WAYYY OVERBOARD at times - stirring the pot with unfounded controversy just to keep his site in the spotlight - and he will be the first to admit it. But he also did some AMAZING things with his unprecedented ability to turn a phrase, herd cats, and constellate the community around a no holds barred type of truth in media thing. It was powerful.

TanTalk was out there too. Chunn's site was always so much more "corporate". Guess what - a company with multiple programmers and IT guys could build a prettier site... And there is always a place for "pretty". Bet it's a cash cow today!

So... Lest Alan Forget, he is "standing on the shoulders of giants". He is currently presiding by a gossamer thread over something that was conceived and built before he came along. That something is a COMMUNITY. Alan did not create the communities, but he did manage to organize the factions after the inevitable civil war. And that is a special skill as well.

So, I recommend credit be given where due. First there was none. Then there was one - or two or three. Every industry has its founders, it's special people, and it's BIG THREE. So did the online tanning community.

Jenny B and Virgo also have a rightful place in any discussion of the industry.

But current owners should BEWARE.... The online community thing is not a brand, and nobody owns it.

Bruce was not claiming any special place in history of tanning because of a domain name. It went far deeper than that.

Community is a special thing. If this group decided to all move to another domain tomorrow, then it could.

The old "ViRGO GOLDEN RULE" won't govern here...

From the old days.... When bashing erupted.... somebody always came up with the line,

"Can't we all just get along?"

You know - that's not such a bad idea : )

[Din]

congratulations...

[Editor-in-Chief]

I was an early supporter of suntanning.com and, as an industry newbie and discussion forum virgin, initially found it to be a more comfortable community.

Online communities come and go and when then do go down, sometimes it isn't pretty. It was particularly painful to watch the demise of your forum.

Lonn, I was sorry to see you sell the suntanning.com domain name to a lotion diverting weasel. That final desecration spoiled any remnants of goodwill you once carried. That is your legacy.

[e4God.com]

Editor:

The seller of a domain is no more responsible for what it becomes after a sale than than the seller of a home would be responsibe for crimes committed in the home by future owners.

[Editor-in-Chief]

So, there is no difference between selling a gun to a cop or selling it to a sociopathic serial killer.

Lonn, if you sold a gun to a serial killer, you could be considered an accessory. The killer's victim's blood would be on your hands too. You are responsible for the consequences of your actions.

You sold suntanning.com to an Internet lotion discounter. Don't deny your sin. Accept your responsibility.

Repent.

[e4God.com]

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