[Nyx]

This is not just about forums.

And if it is a different niche members will stay here and use that different niche. Do people stop using Facebook because theres Twitter? no they use them both because they are both different.

If members want to leave they will leave plain and simple, and if members get driven away from a forum because another in a different niche pops up then the original forum they are from is doing something very wrong that is not appealing to the members therefore pushing them away.

Do you think a forum about survival, dogs or even vagina's is going to take members away from being active Sinisterly when they are all very different forums that do not have anything that competes or replicates Sinisterly?

If a person is interested in technology, computing, coding, anime, etc they aren't going to post it on a vagina forum now are they? no because that forum does not contain sections for that it only contains sections on vaginas or its specific niche.

P.S don't mind the vaginas part I had to come up with a random example.

However if that website manages to keep our members more interested and entertained after they visit, members may begin spending more time there and make more posts or whatever you do on that website. I agree you're 100% correct in every way that if it's about dogs they will still use this forum to talk about technology, but what happens when they prefer the dog website to waste their time on so they begin spending more time posting/reading over there instead of posting/reading here about technology/hacking etc...? It's not about members leaving completely, my point is them spending less time here. I still stand firm on my opinion of this being a perfectly justified rule.

If people want to get others to join their website, they should learn to do SEO or post about it on Reddit, not on Sinisterly.