My community was formed because our old community turned out the way you are saying. However, the elitism and "owning" attitude was pretty much coming from the ones in charge and the moderators. It was a community that didn't promote the registration of new members, as the ones in power would drive the "noobs" away.

So I created my new community to be as open as possible to new members. I know that for every 1 serious member you lose, you need 20 new members to replace him; assuming there is a 5% retention rate of new members. So for a community exists, it has to ALWAYS generate new memberships. So I threw a coup over the community and created a new community. This was almost a year ago. The old community forum is still up, but no one visits it anymore.

For our new community I decided that TRANSPARENCY was key... so I created a set of guidelines for moderators and made the PUBLIC to all members:
http://www.8wayrun.com/f63/a-series-...derators-t268/

Mmmh... this issue is getting... 'Stranger' so can we blame the alcohol or the 'POSTS' Post-stress'? :D

The server was messed up to get an "internal server error 500" so no one could access to the forum. When It changed the owner, the site is back to normal.

Don't stress up... when you feel down, sad, tired you know you can call me pal! ;)

Looks like it got a whole lot stranger *thinks twilight zone strange*.

The only strange thing is why iogames would want to create a dummy account and post from it.

This thread is going widly off topic, and heading for the inevitable fate that brings.

why me? :confused: maybe a kind soul who wants to undo all the emotional damage caused :D

back to the topic: once forumer, can't quit! (rule #1)

I agree with veenuisthebest, you just ban members that won't respect you and the other members.

Then again it depends on what kind of forum it was. My first forum ever (not a vB) was formed by me (admin because I paid for hosting and domain haha) and my online friends. My British members were all of a sudden very hateful towards my American members and I told them to calm down....and they started acting horrible towards me so I banned the troublemakers.

The forum activity died after that so I had no choice but to give it up.

But if your forum isn't specifically for one group of people and you're having new registrations by the day, you shouldn't delete it. If you can't handle the 'pain', sell it. ;)

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Btw, the current site is still using vbulletin but no longer have the link on the license system. Would someone be so kind to tell me what could happend to them cause they seem don't intend to purchase a license.

Burnt at the stake.