[Darth-Apple]

One thing that I can say from experience, though, is that 10 really good, quality members of the community far outweighs 100 members who barely contribute. Much like SM (see the simmania tribute thread) we've always believed in trying to focus on quality first and on trying to be pretty tight knit, which I think we've done fantastically well over the years.

And getting really involved in communities was a big part of what we did to promote this place back when it first started. About half of us (Leo, Brian, Josh, among several others) came from Simmania and several came from Icyboards as well.

Believe it or not promotion forums actually did work pretty well for us. (For those who have not had the unfortunate experience of participating in them, they generally are notorious for not being very effective. ) But it wasn't really because of the promotion that we did over at those places, but because the staff liked us for some strange reason and joined to come support us. Damian B. was the owner of promotionzone.net (a fairly major promotion forum that existed a few years back), and was one of those members to make a surprise visit here.

And then... eh... everyone just came here to advertise their own forums after that. Not the original intent?? Lmao. Fine. Go ahead.

But I guess, long story short, a lot of really consistent involvement in other communities was very much what worked for us. I've been out of the loop on forums for so long I hardly know who's active and where the good forums are anymore. Anyone have any ideas on where to go? I think I've got my eyes on offroading/automotive communities next since that is where a good part of my free time has disappeared too, as of late.