I had a little talk with myself, and here is what we came up with:
RCF (and soon to be RBF) should have an "invite" feature to grow membership. The bottom line is that most people on this board have other people in their outside lives who they talk cleveland sports with. Colleagues, friends, family. Sure, we could email them on our own accord, and many of us have, BUT it would be more powerful if they were invited into the club. Here are some ideas: do an invite contest - accepted invites with new registrations get entered into a drawing for Cavs/Browns tickets/shwag. Accepted invites give the member who invited rep points;
Other idea is that all RCF members get an automated email once-a-month that sends them an aggregation of the most "liked" posts. If you have that functionality, that would be superb. You could even just send them the links to the posts, so that they have to sign in. I was just thinking about how many members there are versus how many are active. Thought this might help, if possible. It would be a valuable-but-not-too-often reminder about what they are missing. If you are really gangster with functionality, you could only send the email out to people who haven't signed in within 15 or 30 days or something.
Thanks for your consideration,
Dagg