[thatmariolover]

I think I answered this on AIM the other night, and in fact I've changed my mind since then.

I believe new members are more important at this point. Not because I think our current members are unimportant, but because it's obvious that they've found a reason to stay. Establishing new members and keeping them is key to getting new discussion going. So in the end, they're not exactly singular goals. I think new members and new discussion give current members a reason to keep coming.

As for accomplishing the goal, I'd go recruiting, as well as invite a few of my friends that might be interested. On top of that, I would be prepared to work on an incentive/competition based system to reward referrals better.

Edit: As for an Alcohol thread, it might be fun to have a 21 and over board. Regulating it would be the problem, and I'd prefer to avoid babe threads. But it would give us a fun opportunity to talk about new stuff we'd tried.