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It looks to me like there are two overall issues we need to address.
- First is the site itself: administration, software, forum skin, features.
- Second is the community: posting activity, toxic atmosphere, reasons to join, things to do as part of the group.
So where do we go from here? |
It's up to Nate as the man in charge as to how far he wants to take this, really. If Peter continues refusing to help him then the only way to accomplish part one is to start a completely new site, with a new domain and probably lose all the history of this place in the process.
The second can be fixed right here. First step, appoint some new mods. Second step: turn off that god-awful manual account confirmation if it wasn't already. There's no larger deterrent for new members to start posting than making them wait hours or even days before their account is active.
So yeah, what do?