Those complainers aren’t going to be very helpful. They don’t even know what they want, but they can fairly easily recognize what they don’t want.

The future of Forumbuildr in my mind are non internet mainstream forums, niche communities devoted to and themed around a certain subject. Problem is, often people hate the exclusivity of inside jokes saturating niche communities enough to have zero tolerance for allowing that kind of thing to exist.

It’s like someone getting kicked out of SomethingAwful, then you offering the person who was just ostracized the power to permanently put down the entire forum. Chances are, that person would rather see SA go down in flames rather than permit it exist without he/she as part of the community.