I don't want it to spike like reddit did poste digg. I do however want others to tell like minded people of this place, as to increase our pool of people engage in discussion and hopefully have some of our ideas on here leak into public discourse. The very fact that neither of us has attacked each other yet at a personal level and instead attacked the argument is a testament to what this place has to offer. Imagine if that site cultural attribute could permeate other large websites like Facebook and Twitter via people seeing the benifits of its practice here? It's value to our society would be immense. Now I understand your concern that quality would nosedive if we had a huge and quick spike in our community and I agree with that statement for the most part. So maybe I should restate my goal as not sudden and fast growth. Rather, consistent moderate levels of growth, that make us large enough to defend from larger sites, trying tactics to shut down our payment processing or web hosting.