In any forum there will always be a constant stream of users leaving for various reasons. This stream can't be stopped, they will leave whether you want it or not, and nothing can change that.
For those of you who where at The High Council you probably remembered the good times when there where more posts than anyone could follow:
With peaks of 2500 posts a month. After a year it stabilized to about 300-400 posts.
But you probably don't remember the endless stream newbies leaving before anyone had a chance to reply to their posts:
The few user that stayed however thrived making a userbase of less than 30 active user, posting more than 10 times a month on average each. While the newbies might have been bothersome for some they replaced the regulars that left. And they kept the forum alive, preventing steady stream of users leaving from affecting the userbase.
The old forum was stable. Users that left where replaced by new users.
And this is where our problem today is: 13 new user this year.
With a breakthrough rate of about 10% there is only 1 new regular this year. There is simply nobody to replace the ones that leaves.
