Seems Hope likes the forum the way it is. I dont see new members joining often...it will probably just be the handful of people posting on there for the foreseeable future. I think it is interesting
the people she bans too.
It's funny you said that because Hope hates when people talk about her behind her back. This was an exchange we had some time ago, when she did that ginormous ban with a lot of people over that one reader (Impy), when the members felt like she was a friend of theirs and worth protecting. I feel she only gets a handful of new members too because on the one hand she acts like the forum belongs to everybody, but when you spread your wings too far, she'll clip them. New members are called out as shills and some members do gang up on them, but Hope won't do anything, even when you report the member. I even reported Joey recently and all his comments are still there. He has been way off course lately.
Hope even considered having other moderators but she is too much of a control freak and can't really gauge who to trust enough with moderator power. One day you might be her friend and the next, she sends you warning emails. Paying into her site gets you nothing additional in the way of making suggestions. None of the suggestions were ever added, that I'm aware of. I lost many (forum-friends) over the scam reader Tyler, with many of them believing him to be a legit psychic, but many started posting their readings and saw paragraphs upon paragraphs of the same text, book recommendations, and similar meditation verbiage. I called out his shyte and demanded a refund, which I got because I just knew he was awful. The members there never once admitted anyone was right about him, even when he himself stated he was a fraud.