Another important reason why we DON'T give numbers: it depends on what your focus is. The more forums on a particular focus, the less useful each one is. If you are the first forum on widget-handcrafting, then a few dozen posts is plenty. If you are a forum on Google-for-webmasters, then a few thousand posts is plenty. The more forums on a particular subject, the less valuable each one is. At what point does a new forum have a NEGATIVE value? I'm not sure: maybe by the third, possibly by the tenth, certainly by the fiftieth. New forums in a very competitive area start out with a highly negative value, and they will need to be better than 75% or 90% of the forums that are already there, for us to do anything other than hope they die quickly, for the sake of all concerned.
