> Stage 3: […] seasoned members develop lengthy FAQs and create strict, multi-page posting guidelines. Yeah... Old times... We did just that on our forum. But

> Stage 3: […] seasoned members develop lengthy FAQs and create strict, multi-page posting guidelines. Yeah... Old times... We did just that on our forum. But it was worse than that. There were several subforums and each one had its own guideline and a couple of FAQs. When I think of it now I can't believe how stupid we were. We scrapped them eventually (after five years or so), but it was too late. Though I do not think it was the reason why forum died. Just world had changed. > Schisms and purges within the administrator community commonly happen at this point, too. It was more fun for us. We had a very agnostic administrator. So being moderators we fought wars, banned each other, and then appealed to the admin. We lived through three "wars of moderators". I was banned for month in one of them. And at one point I banned another moderator. It was so much fun. I can't find such a place today. People are too serious about their precious communities.