- Would the server crash from the unexpected load?
- Would the flood of new members happen late at night, with new members finding themselves unable to post until I approved their accounts or disabled admin approval?
- Would hundreds of members join, make a couple of posts, and forget they even registered here, like so many other members we've had?
- Would we get a deluge of the not-nice posts and messages that tend to pollute the online world?
- Would these new members actually stick around and be productive members of the community?
- Would random companies try to figure out how to buy ad space on this ad-free site?
- Would this trigger the apocalypse and the Cubs winning the World Series
Acquiring a ridiculous number of members has never been my goal for this forum, for a variety of reasons, but I've wondered about the outcomes of this hypothetical scenario.
(Most of this post also applies to MFGG, but an MFGG-related social media blitz is much closer to the realm of possibility than the scenario outlined above.)