# Why is the SDMB membership declining, and what's the best way to add younger members?

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**Created:** [June 14, 2021, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sdmb-membership-declining-and-whats-the-best-way-to-add-younger-members/944208 "2021-06-14T02:28:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sdmb-membership-declining-and-whats-the-best-way-to-add-younger-members/944208/471 "2021-06-30T14:26:21Z")

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Frankly given the corporate ownership of the forums I think the Pit is a serious risk to the board’s future. Like there is no way on any of their newspaper commentary pages the Sun Times Media Group would allow the sort of comments seen in the pit. I could fairly easily see a scenario where a disgruntled or angry poster collects some of the Pit’s “worst hits” and brings them to the attention of Sun Times, or find a way to get them “Twitter exposure” and suddenly it’s going to be a bad look for the corporation and the end result of that will be fairly predictable in my mind.

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