I'm starting to think...

...that maybe you should just jettison all the forums, build one forum, and call it Everything About Exposure (including things it isn't).

Exposure threads are driving the traffic...... most other sections are pretty quiet at this stage ;-)

Well, it would save the Exposure Policeman a bit of legwork I guess.

Very good Thom.

I don't read those threads, or bail out pretty darn quick when I encounter them...
tbh - - I'd rather watch paint dry. lol

A photograph is an exposure by itself so everything exposure is ontopic within any forum.

Possibly:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITsdkbfQQus

For any new venture maximising exposure is a good marketing tactic :-)

I moderate a forum in another community (narrow gauge railroading), and I'm helping with the management of another. I've come to realize it's one thing to stand up a site, but quite another to collect a critical mass of contributors that attract others to participate. IMHO dprevived has done pretty well with regard to the latter to date, got quite a few folk from DPReview from which I've learned a good bit, heck, you pulled in @thom (sorry yet? 😆). Some of the discourse is a bit of a double-edged sword, antagonists and protagonists who both contribute to the degeneration of some discussions. Sometimes it's really worth a lot to just stop talking...

I wouldn't take a heavy hand in moderation just yet, 'cept for things like hate speech, obscenity, etc., but encourage folk to vector back to the topic at hand.

Thank you for not being a mod on this site. Ugh!

You're welcome. I got into this by co-inheriting a site after its founder, a good friend, passed away last February. Traffic is almost non-existent on it now, lack of contributors, easy-peasy admin. I've had just one "moderation" action, fellow posted a picture that violated copyright; he just didn't understand the implications and was quite agreeable about the whole thing.

Since, I've also gotten involved with a forum sponsored by the Friends organization of a rather large museum activity. It too is content-sparse, gets spun up in the spring by two things: 1) comments about what's on the site webcams, and 2) work session photo posts through the summer as restoration work is done. Even then, not a lot of what I'll call "generative" traffic, that is, posts to the original posts.

I bring this up because it points out the essential need for any such forum: a cadre of knowledgeable and engaged content initiators and question-answerers (rather awkward word, hope it conveys...) that troll the threads ("troll" in a constructive sense, as in the fishing usage) and engage inquiries. dprevived right now has collected a decent group of such, some of the stalwarts from DPReview and at least one who I'd thought would never wallow into such. To start chopping up threads by moderation might scare off enough of this cadre to turn this place into just another web script that gets to run maybe once a day.

That said, there's also a fair bit of the old DPReview phenomenon going on, sometimes vitriolic "last word" discourses that take threads far from their original intent. For the time being, I think it's a better approach to steer the conversations back to topic rather than chasing folk away for what in a lot of cases is just misunderstanding. FWIW...

Not to worry, I'm not going to volunteer. Just retired, and already have a number of engagements to keep me busy...

Agreed. Another one about 'resolution ... wotizit?' would be good ...

... "trawl", actually. Pardon my pedantry ...

You trawl with a net. You troll dragging a line behind the boat.

Pardon my pedantry in response to yours.

I'm worried about the Exposure Triangle thread; it's dying, hasn't been fed for over a day :-(

The hole lets the light in.