Well we have come to the conclusion that there is only so much you can talk about Maseratis and pretty much all issues and topics have already been covered.
The way to keep interest going is to swing the forum emphasis to commeradary and banter....our own social network site. Couple this with regular meets, events, fabulous Xmas doo's and foreign trips such as Le Mans and the centenary trip.
Newton, most forums contain a lot of spammers, SM does not, they are rigorously weeded out.
For example, SM is the largest forum globally based on posts. We have some 2,500 members but if you look at others, ML (14,750), MF ect, they have much more users but I guarantee a large proportion (like more than half) are spammers.
The Spammers don't cause harm, the sign up (by using a bot) and inject their website URL into their signature. Google then scans this and ranks their website based on inbound links.
I recon I have weeded some 5,000 spammers over the life of SM.
It's all going wrong over on AlfaOwner due to over moderation, an ideal time to launch SportsAlfa (coming Autumn 2013). I have been contacted by dozens of AO members offering to help and offering their support.