Well the C&C Community at its height was significantly larger than this one. Our forums were pretty steady and did well for the most part. Then when we tried that unmoderated forum, the floodgates opened. We increased site traffic by around 478% and it was like light to the flies.

I had one hell of a job to pop in there removing a whole amount of links to things which promoted pornography, game piracy and certain other things not even the 4-chan community would dare to post. Admittedly there was a huge chunk of people that kept it civil. But there was also a large amount of people who just ruined it for everyone else, and it spilled into other forums like people thought it was OK.

We had a team of about 4 moderators at the time. It was deemed enough before the forum went up. In the end we had to increase our team to double the number and make sure they were at specific places in the world to maintain constant coverage of the forums outside of the hell hole that we created.

When we pulled the unmoderated forum, most left. But we gained some additional members. Some of which are still there today and one is a guy who took my place when I stood down. But from my experience at least. I wouldn't administrate or moderate a forum again which gave anyone the option. I'd been on the staff for 11 years at that website. That was certainly one of the lowest points.