[matt_turpin]

In my experience, forum users split off into cliques. Your core vererans will be one clique. I think they'll create their own sense of community in the face of growing numbers. It's like a big city - you might have your Chinatowns, maybe an Italian community, a Jewish area, etc, but at the end of the day, they all call themselves New Yorkers, or Bostonians or what have you. You'll have community, even if it's a hodge-podge of smaller subcommunities. Not necessarily a bad thing really.