Nobody here cares about how many posts anybody makes. I think you've never been in a real Internet forum, so this place confuses you.
Also, hosting is cheap and easy these days; as is setting up a forum. The only people you're going to attract this way, especially with some generic Anime-site theme, is a bunch of worthless fucks who aren't able to stroke their egos by making their own forum with no members, and I don't want to those types of people them making "good long posts" on this board at all, as I'm sure many others wouldn't either. Go do this on some teenage gaming site where "discussion" equals stating the obvious about random shit, because you're just making a fool of yourself here.
Besides, this way you're just asking to get a bunch of emotionally unstable, wishy-washy backstabbing adolescent kids who will eventually ruin your forum (and probably constantly lie to you about who they are). If you want to build a community, start with the site. Open it up to user contributed content, provide a means for user comments, and let the forum run mostly unmoderated a while, and you'll eventually find and meet people whom you can grow to trust and rely on when your site reaches a point where you need people for moderating the forums or editing the site's content.
The only reason this site has a forum to begin with is that Zeality was stirring up so much discussion about the Chrono games on the general board of a music remixing site that a lot of the regulars there were tired of seeing it, even though many found it interested. A community had formed like a cancerous tumor out of another forum, and there was a need to give that community, however small it may have been, a place to freely hold discussion, as well as organize and present the things they discussed.
And then the only reason this site ended up being anything much more than that was Zeality's own need to expand the scope of the site and make it a collection of any and all resources involving the Chrono series. Naturally, this grew out of a need for more concrete evidence on which to base the analysis, all of which would be easily accessible and referenced, but later it grew into its own end.
Nowhere in the game plan was "build a forum" and "attract a lot of users" then "bask in eternal glory of a bunch of stupid 12 year olds posting about their difficult adolescent lives and random gaming shit while feeling important by acting as an authority figure enforcing arbitrarily strict rules based on a tradition of other forums run by teenagers needing to feel important," which is why these forums are different from what you expect. You'll notice we've never been "hacked" or had to deal with the dreaded "admin gone crazy" type of drama. There's about as much drama here as there is at Photo.net or Guiltyparties.com. There's a reason for that, and if you stop and think a little, you'll be able to avoid that kind of mess as well.
Finally,we don't have a lot of "mods" here, because the only moderation here is based on two rules:
1. Are we legally obligated to take it down and/or notify the authorities?
2. Is it interesting and/or meaningful?
The attitude here is that if you get offended in an argument, that's your problem. Don't expect some "mod" to see something and fix it for you. Oh, and don't post Naruto spoilers.
