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Newbs are the future of any site. Joel Send a noteboard - 13/09/2011 02:40:06 AM
But I definitely agree with TMJ. There was a period of time that is infamous. I got here just to see it fade, really. And yes, we are drooping more each year.

I still think it is just that the main base has aged and gotten busy with life. And it's hard to attract new people, probably because we've lost the draw of the specific books, and we've lost many of the people who liked to discuss them. They might have been a stronger part of this site if we hadn't treated them poorly.

Thus I agree with pretty much everything you said. Life inevitably takes some people elsewhere sooner or later, and if there are no new arrivals the community dies as a result, whether "the community" is RAFO or Dubuque, IA. What really makes it obvious now is that new arrivals continued to find their way to wotmania for years after the Great Crash (you and I are proof of that), but that doesn't seem to be the case any longer. Unless RAFO is willing and able to change those conditions the long term future seems as clear now as it has been from the start.
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Just wondering.....assessment of recent RAFO activity trzaska2000 - 10/09/2011 03:49:03 PM 888 Views
Ever since I started coming to Wotmania... Maria - 10/09/2011 05:13:32 PM 724 Views
Eh... TaskmasterJack - 10/09/2011 07:11:34 PM 883 Views
it's funny... Zaphod - 10/09/2011 07:15:42 PM 1051 Views
It is no coincidence! TaskmasterJack - 10/09/2011 07:25:11 PM 705 Views
Well, that makes the conclusion fairly obvious, doesn't it? Legolas - 11/09/2011 11:32:43 AM 668 Views
This is true. Back then there were a couple years when chat always had 20+ people Urza - 11/09/2011 01:25:11 AM 678 Views
That was true even into CMB4. CMB5 is where things really began to drop off. *NM* Ghavrel - 11/09/2011 01:31:25 AM 276 Views
I agree with that. Jacob - 12/09/2011 08:33:16 PM 599 Views
Re: Eh, my first reply was in bad form. Gaps - 10/09/2011 05:27:22 PM 720 Views
I'm not from the first class nossy - 11/09/2011 04:04:03 PM 685 Views
We like to keep you in Coach. You get uppity when you're given amenities. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 11/09/2011 07:47:45 PM 288 Views
Newbs are the future of any site. Joel - 13/09/2011 02:40:06 AM 577 Views
I think things are probably somewhat typical. everynametaken - 12/09/2011 05:44:53 AM 760 Views
there has been a marked drop and I suspect it will get worse random thoughts - 12/09/2011 09:07:41 PM 599 Views
Great point about chat.....it really is a necessary feature for a community-based site *NM* trzaska2000 - 13/09/2011 09:55:47 PM 282 Views
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