I have pointed out in several of my posts that new boards find it very hard to grow and qualify for EM They may start off well because of the initial enthusiasm of its founders and its early members. They start posting and commenting and the new board flourishes for a while. But because it does not have funds to reward those who make posts and comments there, it is difficult to keep up the activity there. It is  too natural for people to prefer to participate in EM approved boards that can reward its participants. Perhaps if the owner of a new board has deep personal pockets or can round up a group of supporters who is willing to back him financially, he can reward participants until such time that the board qualifies for EM. This is not the case with BBS currently. All the boards that are approved for EM qualified with the support of BBS through the seed funding program or during the time when every board (including non EM boards) could earn something - at least a CPM of 5 compared with 50 or 150 for EM boards. So by making posts in non EM boards, it was still possible at that time for anyone (including non partners) to earn something. You can say that tipping of posts/comments now allow anyone to earn from BBS. BUT how are non EM boards able to get funds to tip? Out of personal pockets of its owner and his supporters? Boards which were started by those who earned a lot of BBS tokens when it was super easy to earn could do so with the BBS tokens earned earlier. This is no longer the case in the foreseeable future. METV (formerly Meta Engaged) had the benefit of $2, 000 from qualifying twice or 2 rounds of Seed Funding. It also had the backing of several people who had accumulated BBS tokens when it was still easy to earn. Unless BBS restart some form of support for small boards with potential, it is highly unlikely for any new board to ever grow enough to qualify for EM based on the current criteria. UUNET which had the support of Eyal started with a bang and was doing well for a while. But it faced the problem mentioned above. Enthusiasm has died off and there is hardly any actually there nowadays. Today's reward table list JUNE at 90th place. Is it destined to die as many other boards have died? THEWAR which is a new board that is similar to UUNET is currently riding on the initial enthusiasm and has made it to 4th place in today's reward table. If THEWAR does not receive any support from BBS, will what happened to UUNET and many other boards also happen to THEWAR? I hope not. To show my support for THEWAR, I have recently started to comment there and made my first post there today.

I  hope that BBS will come out with some mechanism to support new/small boards. 

Perhaps restart a new form of the Seed Funding program