Decided to delete my forum

[Jaxel]

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/