To be honest I think 'new' hacks do bring new members but are not always positive and often drive old/valued/contributing members away, I won't go into names but off of the top of my head I could list about 10 members no longer here either banned or fucked off who probably lost the forum around 500 very good members because they spouted bile, had no technical knowledge which wouldn't have been a problem if they had not set about arguing with people who had pissing them off to the point the though why the fuck do I bother and either stopped posting or fucked off. My opinion is it's not about new members it's about getting the members back or posting again as there are already plenty of members.
Not sure which forums you are visiting but they are by far the exception rather than the rule, just have to look and read the forum platform forums to see the massive decline in forums over the last 10 years.
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