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MR and Trains are the Mecca for our hobby and so this site should be busier, and more user friendly. As for a lot of posts, remember different people participate differently. Count isn't quality either way - a low count or a high count responding to threads. As a forum becomes more popular - and your wish comes true - then you will get "personalities." What is required is good moderating, with the ability to boot participants and lock threads. Trainboard.com doesn't get the traffic that Atlas does for a couple of reasons - but one of them is that it is more heavily moderated (I am a moderator there). A personality poisoned the atmosphere about a year and a half ago and made it miserable for everyone. He would send horrible emails to moderators, go to other forums and slag moderators and participants at Trainboard; it wasn't fun. So now you find a heavier hand there. We would prefer fewer participants, but on a more pleasant level. If you want to see the heavy hand of the law, go to www.trainboard.com , then enter the HO forum, then go to "Hey guys" thread. You will see "Watash" giving it to some one, as the moderators were afraid that the issues concerning the death of RR-Line would spill over into trainboard as it did on the Atlas forum. The problem with RR-Line was that the moderators didn't have the control they have at trainboard, so small issues got out of hand. However, too much censoreship is a bad thing. The worst place for that is the layout design sig at Yahoo! Groups. The moderators ran a poll asking the participants to vote on continued censoreship. I wrote a polite but highly critical critique of their approach and that the members weren't aware of the level of censoreship there (I have had 5 posts censored there - all polite and on topic). Of course the thread critique the moderator's level of censoreship never made it the forum, so all criticism was censored out....lol. You don't want that either. Layout design has become a bit bland... sometimes you want stuff off topic, its kind of like flowers in the garden - you don't really need them, but they spruce the place up. You can only answer so many questions on grades and minimum radius without talking about other things to keep your interest up.
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