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<p>[QUOTE="Drathnoxis, post: 12719, member: 212"]</p><p>Just because people come for the free hosting doesn't mean that they will stay for the forums. Look at the Escapist. Yahtzee is about 100x more famous and popular than you will likely ever be, yet the forums have been steadily bleeding users since 2012. You can blame a bit on moderation and a bit on lack of promotion of the site and forums, but at the end of the day forums just aren't popular anymore and we need to accept that. Dumping money to attract people to a site like this is like trying to get people to join your Usenet Newsgroup. People don't use forums anymore because they don't want to use forums and the ones that do already have forums that they frequent. Frankly, the only way you are going to get users here is to find a forums that is shutting down and try to siphon off some users, but chances are that won't work either.</p><p></p><p>Also you seriously underestimate peoples apathy. Nobody is going to step up and save the site if you get arrested. Not unless there's more to this place than is apparent to me and this is actually a host for illegal activity or religious extremists or something. This place doesn't make any money and the only people who put themselves at risk solely for principle are few and far between, and probably not of very sound mind at that.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Drathnoxis, post: 12719, member: 212"] Just because people come for the free hosting doesn't mean that they will stay for the forums. Look at the Escapist. Yahtzee is about 100x more famous and popular than you will likely ever be, yet the forums have been steadily bleeding users since 2012. You can blame a bit on moderation and a bit on lack of promotion of the site and forums, but at the end of the day forums just aren't popular anymore and we need to accept that. Dumping money to attract people to a site like this is like trying to get people to join your Usenet Newsgroup. People don't use forums anymore because they don't want to use forums and the ones that do already have forums that they frequent. Frankly, the only way you are going to get users here is to find a forums that is shutting down and try to siphon off some users, but chances are that won't work either. Also you seriously underestimate peoples apathy. Nobody is going to step up and save the site if you get arrested. Not unless there's more to this place than is apparent to me and this is actually a host for illegal activity or religious extremists or something. This place doesn't make any money and the only people who put themselves at risk solely for principle are few and far between, and probably not of very sound mind at that. [/QUOTE]
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