This site has my "stamp of approval"

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Flint

I think more people, more posts, and more activity is a good thing! It means your community is a thriving metropolis. By comparison, if nobody posted here, there wouldn't be much human interaction, would there?

A good message board will find a healthy balance. The Cellar has found that balance.

At the one extreme, you have places like Fark where hundreds of people are fighting to try to make their mark and be heard above the din, all making stupid one line posts. You can read through a typical thread on Fark and find one or two posts with merit, but the rest is crap. Fark has hundreds of active users. That sounds like the world you are advocating. I'm not interested in it.

Your thriving Metropolis analogy is an interesting one. I don't want to live in New York City. I prefer living in a smaller place where I can put down some roots and run into people I know when I go out.

Of course we want the Cellar to be active. New posts are good. Activity is good. But the activity should be good activity, not activity just for activity's sake.