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Have a look at the following screenshot:
Currently 829 members online. This number used to be over 1200-1300 last year. So members are 30-40% down. It is because 100's of members get banned every month.
Even though new members are joining, because ACTIVE & OLD members got banned due to one reason or the another, overall members have gown down and hence activity on BHW has reduced significantly.
I am sure Mods, admins and owner must have noticed this drastic change. If not, this is why I have opened this thread to highlight the facts and what to do to rectify the situation. It's a shame that a site like BHW have less than 1000 members online at any given time. This can easily be over 3000 if simple changes are implemented.
I strongly suggest the following ways :
I am afraid if this carries on for a few more months, BHW might not become a PASSIVE forum - just like another popular forum which was very active few years ago but now, no one even visit that site.
Things can change quite quickly if drastic measures are not taken.
I sincerely hope that some concrete action will be taken soon.
Thanks for reading.
Currently 829 members online. This number used to be over 1200-1300 last year. So members are 30-40% down. It is because 100's of members get banned every month.
Even though new members are joining, because ACTIVE & OLD members got banned due to one reason or the another, overall members have gown down and hence activity on BHW has reduced significantly.
- I see lots of threads with no or 1 or 2 replies now
- Quality of the posts have reduced since lots of forum contributors and active members got banned.
I am sure Mods, admins and owner must have noticed this drastic change. If not, this is why I have opened this thread to highlight the facts and what to do to rectify the situation. It's a shame that a site like BHW have less than 1000 members online at any given time. This can easily be over 3000 if simple changes are implemented.
I strongly suggest the following ways :
- Force guest members to register: As you can see in the above screenshot, there are over 2200 people surfing BHW without being registered. This number was over 3700 when I checked last time. Guest members are not contributing in any way. By forcing them to register when they want to see any thread, the number of members will go up drastically as well as the activity of the forum. I saw another forum forcing registration and guess what? They have over 4000 members online at any given time and less than 1000 are guest- Just the opposite of BHW.
- STOP banning members PERMANENTLY. I know some members are banned temporarily but most of them are permanent. Apart from severe breakage of rules like Scamming or mods abuse, all members should be temporarily banned, depending on the severity of the issue. For example, if someone is spamming, after they reach 10 points, they can be banned for 1 month. Same can be done for inappropriate behaviour.
I am afraid if this carries on for a few more months, BHW might not become a PASSIVE forum - just like another popular forum which was very active few years ago but now, no one even visit that site.
Things can change quite quickly if drastic measures are not taken.
I sincerely hope that some concrete action will be taken soon.
Thanks for reading.
