[Morecambe Ex Pat]

I have been a member of a number of forums and in recent years, they have all seen their activity levels drop. I am the webmaster and mod of 2 forums but they are aimed at a specialised market and not open to the general public.
I have seen a migration over to Facebook by some of the people involved but many feel that Facebook is too 'here today, gone tomorrow' to be of any long term use.
It seems to be the older members prefer to use the traditional forum whereas the younger members prefer to spend their lives on social media.
I put AccyWeb's success down to the attitude of most members who are prepared to debate an issue rather than just reply with contra argument or personal insults.

I have been on the receiving end of such personal insults, in the past but chose to take them as jest and not rise to the occasion.

The rules of most forums are plain common sense and based on social etiquette and I suspect that those people who cannot stick to forum rules are not too impressive with their social skills either.