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I'm more than happy to continue spreading the word here - hell, I put in a TON of time into building it in the first place way back when - since the whole idea was to get an all-inclusive general Vancouver alt community going that isn't primarily based around one event or specific group of people. And for that's it's very specific - though the nights that I run personally, Sanctuary and Sin City, are the longest-running and biggest of their type in Van, Dark Vancouver certainly never was built as something like 'The Sanctuary Forums' that other people are encouraged to take part of ... it stayed very much as an entity which represented everyone equally depending on how much time they wanted to put into it.

And ultimately that's what drives these community group forums - how much time people invest into them. Most people (and ESPECIALLY event promoters) these days almost exclusively based their online community building exploits around Facebook, and MySpace in the past, or their own event-based forums, and rarely seem to cross-post much beyond that. Even with Sanctuary and Sin City, the events are nowhere near big enough that forums built more exclusively around them would have enough dynamic to remain an interest place to visit, or be able to encompass enough of a landscape of people. And forums just aren't a part of Facebook that works AT ALL ... it's great for emailing back and forth directly to friends, for making and following event listings or getting or sending notices to event attendees, but any kind of community interaction? Forget about it. Not a functional part of those sites.

My involvement as an active community-interest builder automatically comes with having it cross-represented by and at Sanctuary, Sin City and Rock & Roll High School. I can definitely hype it there and try and drive some traffic from attendees at those events, and keep the listings here up to date so it remains a valid resource for finding out about stuff, staying in the loop, and connecting with other people or discussing areas of common interests.

No idea about the Descent folks, that'd be entirely their call if they wanted to be stepping in and keeping their listings updated, spreading the word at their event, or taking a more actively role themselves.

In the end, it will be as big or small and dynamic or not as we all choose to make it!