Well, it doesn't help the board's case that some of the more prominent members here prefer to instantly lash out at thread starters because the discussion that is being generated revolves around a topic these same individuals deem to be "lame."
You start a Wii thread, regardless of how informative and objective the original post might be, and you'll be on the receiving end of a bunch of knee-jerk, hope-my-jerk-off-friends-find-my-reply-funny-and-this-guy-goes-away backhanded remarks. This isn't exclusive only to the Wii and its games, but other consoles and games the Bore Circle Jerk Collective have unanimously voted against, for one reason or another. How is a new visitor, lurker, or potential new member supposed to interpret such reactions, and how are you going to entice that new person to become a proactive member in light of that? They won't even bother.
I know, because I used to run a forum about this size (500-700 posts a day), and it developed under the same circumstances as this one. A bunch of us left a supposedly authoritative community and created a new one under the common flag of hatred for the old one. It was very active and very promising initially, and I thought it would last that way, but it didn't. The "regulars" of the new forum felt that the community was their fucking playground and they could openly and collectively gang-rape anyone that challenged their authority. New members were simply too hesitant to involve themselves in the community, much less post new threads, and I witnessed the community shrinking every year - even the founding members were getting bored because of the lack of new discussion and new blood (ironic, since they took such pleasure deriding them whenever they stuck their heads out).
It got to the point where the forum experienced only 2-3 posts a day. I tried to jump start the place by remodeling the forum's membership policy, but by then it was too late. I simply didn't have the energy nor the time to start from scratch, and it's much harder to start a community from the ground up.
Unfortunately, those signs leading to the collapse of my old board seem prevalent here. Yeah, some of the members will stick around, defend the place, and say they'll stick around and do X-Y-Z to guarantee it lives on, but it's all BS. These members are like sluts: they'll say they love you and whisper sweet nothings into your ear, only to have their cunts stuffed hours later when you're not around by the stud next door with the horse cock.
I suspect all of this will be ignored or find itself the recipient of a classic Bore attack, but I couldn't care less. I consider this post to be my most meaningful and genuine contribution to the community and its leaders, and I really don't care how it'll be received.
