My issues in a nutshell. I haven’t forgotten how often I’d complain about trolls, even talking to @lordbanks directly and getting told it was the community’s responsibility to report bad behaviour. Took ages to ban trolls because they were ‘funny’, and one time one particularly bad user was temporarily banned and heartily welcomed back, by Bankole himself. Remember this?
Just all manners of tomfoolery. It’s like they expected the community to just magically work. The powers that be stopped posting. I sent a dm out offering to help but got a vague response. Were there issues? Did they need help? Or did they just not care? We don’t know, because they won’t say!
Now they’ve announced they’re back and nothing has changed. I remember Radar was first formed Seyi and Bankole used to try and start conversation with different topics. People aren’t going to just start posting again because you made an announcement thread. Invite-only is pointless when those who are members aren’t using the site. Why would anyone want to sign up?
DO SOMETHING guys. There’s more to running a community than setting rules. No-one can/should care more about your product than you, the owner.