ok...so;
the acquisition multiples would be:
100k/35,406,893 = $0.0029 per post
100k/2,119,812 = $0.048 per thread
100k/342,840 = $0.23 per user
that would value ye @:
112,444*0.0029 = $326 (posts) or
16,165*0.048 = $777 (threads) or
22,944*0.23 = $5277 (users)
therefore, the valuation range for ye is gonna be between $5277 and $326 based on pbnation multiples
however, with pbnation, their post/users ratio is 103.27 (35,406,893/342,840), but ye's ratio is 4.9 (112,444/22,944). because pbnation's users are roughly 20 times more active than ye's users (i.e. 20 times less likely to leave), a prudent purchaser would argue that ye should be priced in the lower end of its valuation range
pity....and something that painfully underscores the problems with this forum that
I raised over a year ago (and my post was deleted, btw)
alternatively: if ye was a more active forum and maintained a user/posts ratio similar to pbnation, we'd have about 2,369,426 (22,944*103.27) posts on this forum valuing the site at $6871 (2,369,426*0.0029) rather than $326 (a difference of 2107%)...
if the founders of this forum implement a policy for increasing posts per user ratio - they can see their capital gains from the sale of this site multiply by over 21times!
It will mean the difference between being offered $5277 and $100,000
Finally: In terms of valuations, the problem is that YE's member activity rate (posts/user ratio) is the lowest in the industry. According to the
statistics, the top 20 most active forums on the net have ratios between 32767 and 1166 posts per user. This forum on another hand has a ratio of 4.9, ranking it at 1860 (in terms of member activity) out of 1933 forums tracked by bigboards....literally speaking, this forum is at the bottom of the scale
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