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That is 100.0000% true! An absolute truth because it is a qualified statement. Well done!
Of course, whenever using the excellent qualifier "might" there is a corollary for the exact same statement qualified with "might not".
After so many decades of managing community ... I wish your statement was truer than the corollary. In the beginning, I was sure that would be the case. But .... people .... they are so very human ... and all that that implies .... in practice, it is the corollary that is truer.
And here we are. 5 million people per month. On a forum. And I've been told "all forums are dead." So I guess we are beating the odds.