[Mister X]

All I have to say is that if I can't promote things that I'm involved with then there's really nothing to keep me going to a forum. Sure there are lots of cool people that hang there, but there's a point when it gets to be too much trouble for too little return. This nameless forum is one where I used to spend a significant amount of time but now I read maybe one post in 20 or 30 and rarely bother to post a response. There are too many lightweight fluff posts that I just don't have the time to wade through. I like to joke around and have fun, but it is a business after all. So if there is a drop in the clickthru rates for that forum I think it's quite likely that other people feel the same way. Sure it's nice to have lots of traffic coming through your forum but I wonder about the quality of that traffic sometimes.