What makes a successful forum?

[mat]

dreamweaver, I am a closet, repressed grammatical pedant. I try to hide it by pretending I'm not. After having made a pact with myself, I now never point-out when other people make mistakes. Conversely, I like it when someone else points out my mistakes. I say 'like', but only in the same way as when someone points out you have food on your face...

ANYWAY.

That aside, I have now made the two forums (okay, 'fora') visible only to members who are logged-in:

Kitchen Sink
Politics

Great. Now I just need to get the word out about CC!

[mat]

Topic split and locked.
Reason: went very off-topic after the above post.
If you are looking for removed posts, they have not been removed. They are in the Kitchen Sink section now.
Thanks!