Like many of you, I'm a registered member of other forums pertaining to other things other than Crossfires. At one forum, I'm fast approaching 10,000 posts over the last 10 years. Things have been a little slow there and getting people to post is like pulling teeth. I know there are many folks who come to read what's there and leave without posting a reply or starting a new topic. I see their screen names in the visitors box on a regular basis.

When we pick up new members there, we try to encourage them to participate even if it means some repetitive posting of the same or similar subjects that have been covered in the past. Eliminating discussions of interest to a new member just because it was covered in the past is not conducive to encouraging new people to ask questions and getting involved. If you tell them to just do a search and don't bother to ask for information, it will stifle their enthusiasm about participating with the group and we will become an anti-social reference site with no interaction among the registered members.

I don't know how long this site has been active, but unless it's getting too expensive to store all the data from the past, I would say leave it there. Do not eliminate it. As far as those people who registered and rapidly lost interest and never came back, do away with them.

Do the administrators have the capability to send an email to every registered member? If they do, send a message and ask everyone to check their profile to make sure they are up-to-date, and let them know that if they haven't visited the site and posted within the last year or so they will be dropped from the registered member list, and will have to re-register to be able to view pics and post. Give them an adequate warning before you give them the boot. That way we may be able to inspire them to get involved again, and isn't that what forums are for?

Bob