An often overlooked part of driving interest in a discussion forum is comments. Go figure. Comments drive discussion. Many of the story submissions can be found at other, similar sites. Poal, Ruqqus, here and Reddit will all have the same stories. The difference is found in the comments.
Too many submissions here have zero comments. This makes newcomers leave because there isn't a conversation happening.
As a bonus that's where CCP is found if that is important to you.
A discussion forum w 1000 stories but no comments is a ghost town.
Lin_Ching_Yu -1 points 3.1 years ago
^^^This