I believe that the team (owner and moderators) is crucial.

When MNFTC first started as Meta Engagers its owner Chassp worked hard and ME was the shooting star in BBS. It grew rapidly especially after Lguigs became its main moderator. ME has rebranded to METV and is now one of the boards that have been failing to meet the requirements of EM.

While the current low traffic in BBS has a part to play in this state of affairs, I believe that the decline of METV is mainly due to the absence of Chassp and Lguigs. IMO, Lguigs was the best moderator MNFTC ever had.

This is shown by how SPORTX started by Lguigs grew even faster than MNFTC. Changing from a generic sports board to focussing on football removed a considerable amount of traffic. Prior to the change football and cricket were the sports with the most traffic. Cricket is so popular that INDFAM (Cric Talk) qualified for EM using it as the focus topic. 

As is the case with other EM boards that are struggling to meet the requirements of EM, the overall low traffic in BBS has a part to play.  For SPORTX, Lguigs is also not as active as he once was  Thankfully, he is still around and hopefully will continue to support SPORTX. 

Cryptos is the subject of many of the boards in BBS. It is the subject that has the most boards. 

In early 2022 BANTER and VILLA were 2 huge  crypto boards that were approved for EM. 

VILLA was formed in October 2021 while BANTER was formed in December 2021. BANTER outgrew VILLA because it had the support of Cryptomanran of the Crypto Banter YouTube channel. Many users joined  BBS  because of his promotion of BBS in his YouTube channel. 

At one time BANTER had more members than METABBS and was also ranked first in the rewards table. There are also several boards with more than 10K members that are offshoots of BANTER eg  CGAMING,, CHARTS, LUNATKS. 

The YouTube posts provided a steady supply of posts for BANTER and its Offshoots. However it must be mentioned that those who use links to the YouTube posts should put more effort to include original content such as discussing what was in the YouTube posts. 

Sadly this was not done and so there was low engagement on posts that are essentially just links to YouTube. Another reason for the decline of BANTER and its Offshoots is that its principals are not active in BBS anymore. 

VILLA was doing great when its owner, Cunzishu, and its chief moderator, Rexmatic were active in BBS. For whatever reasons they became inactive, VILLA is now practically deserted although it still has a  lot of members like BANTER. 

In early 2022 IVERSE had more members and posts than DGBAR. The owner of DGBAR, CryptoSML was more committed and worked harder than the owner of IVERSE. 

IVERSE as a board is now as good as dead.  

DGBAR grew its membership and even qualified for Seed Funding. When it qualified for seed funding I had about $15 of cashables when the minimum required for whitelisting was $20.

But the boost in CPM from 5 to 150 because of the funds from the seed funding allowed me to get the $5 within 2 weeks when it took me many months to get $15. 

However IMO using a CPM of 150 caused the $1, 000 from the seed funding to be used up too quickly. Before it had sufficient time to leverage on the high CPM to grow enough for EM, it ran out of funds. 

Once its CPM reverted to 5 it struggled to attract  people to participate. It would have been better to use a CPM of  say 30 which is still 6X those of other small non EM boards. The relatively higher CPM would have lasted 5X longer which may have enabled DGBAR to grow enough for  EM

 It is a fact that people will gravitate to where they can earn. I reiterate my call that BBS should help boards that show potential to grow. Currently the small boards do  not have the funds to tip posts/comments and so find it difficult to sustain the enthusiasm of people to participate on them. 

After the great reset, many boards chose Cryptos to be their subject and so this became an overcrowded topic. 

DGBAR changed its focus from cryptos to travel and later to world news. Recently CryptoSML made a post in DGBAR on whether it should change its topic from world news. 

I have discussed the issue with him and we agreed that economic news and how it affects investments including cryptos and other asset classes such as stocks, real property and precious metals is part and parcel of  world news. 

I made a post in METABBS on the recent surge in crypto prices and whether I should use DGBAR to make posts on what is happening in the global economy and what are its effect. Unfortunately that post was hidden by METABBS. 

IMO I believe that post was not off topic as it included  whether DGBAR is appropriate  for me to make such posts. Perhaps I should have used a title that did not highlight the surge in crypto priceds but on whether DGBAR was an appropriate board for me to use. 🤔

CryptoSML has agreed that it is OK and I have made 2 posts there recently. There are a lot more posts that I intend to make but it will take a while as I am a slow worker who type at 5 words per minute. 

CryptoSML has given me permission to promote DGBAR in METABBS which I will do after I have made more posts in DGBAR. 

Recently Eyal made a post that is connected  to a  board RTCRYPT (Crypto  Roundtable) . This is a board where we can discuss  about cryptos.

That board has posts that are from  TheStreet.Com which has a lot of investment related news. 

The activation of RTCRYPT may be a win-win case for BBS and TheStreet.com. They have an established on line presence and discussion about their posts may be able to bring traffic to us. On the other hand TheStreet.com is able to publicize their post to BBS users as their posts contains cross links to other posts made by them in their existing online presence. 

So RTCRYPT may be a board you may want to check out. As it has just been activated it currently has just 10 members. It has the potential to grow huge because of the backing of TheStreet.com. (just like BANTER) 

The early 🐦bird catches the 🐛 worm. Those who join RTCRYPT early can be the early 🐦🦜and grow/benefit like the early members of BANTER