>>3080Just post something every day, even if you're just talking with yourself or one single other anon. Once you've got some momentum going other interested people will join in eventually. Because there are a lot of interested people, no matter what topic, its just that most of them are deterred by slow traffic, sparse content, and low response rate. Its up to a small number of dedicated, frequent users to build up the base upon which future anons may post. Not having id's is beneficial for this purpose as the necessary samefagging won't be as obvious. It can stall good discussion when people are worried about posting too frequently or inconsistently. Having focus on content other than pure discussion is also good as a few or even a single poster can provide sufficient content to kick start a board. Probably why /furry/ is so successful: it is entirely centered around image dumping.
Damn, /boards/ should have a sticky about this. How to build your community, that is.
>>3205Too many care too much about traffic and too little about quality content. Discussing your niche interest on a high pace, low attention, wide topic board is useless. I like slow boards. We just need to learn how to keep a small niched community alive, and maybe change our goals and expectations.