It isn't? Don't get a purgatory and engage in good-faith conversations which some of you are adamant you can do. You have no reason to worry. 68,116 users roughly have access to CE, as long as not every single user gets removed from the board it'll still have a community to it. If the "death sentence" does happen that is in control of the users and user behavior with a few exceptions like if bad moderating takes place as an example.
This is just a wild response. Childish, simple-minded, short-sighted.
LUE exists as a case study. This very same thing happened to it. It is now dead.
Closing off access to a message board is going to kill the message board. End of story. Slowly, over time, it'll die.
DToast's post here is so narrow-minded, corporate and robotic. "Beep boop, just follow rules and don't be banned and numbers will stay same, beep boop."
That's not how it works. People lose interest in a message board. They might naturally just move away from it. Get busier in life, be unable to post. People leave. New people come. Fresh blood, new users. An ebb and flow. That's how these kind of communities go. With no new users, the board will die over time.
But no, everybody just be good and we have nothing to worry about.
Also, what's up with the general attitude of DToast? Here is a quote from the admin announcement:
"Since then, weve made sure youve had a dedicated Community Manager - DToast - embedded in your community to make sure your needs, concerns, and culture are well-represented within our company."
He is NOT representing our needs, concerns and culture. He's combative and defensive. I've never seen a community manager like this honestly. It's an argumentative and toxic relationship between him and the community he's supposed to be representing. He just keeps going on about people here not being engaging in good-faith, when the vast majority of us are (with just a few trolls here and there who may not be).