News and Views has been running since February so we’re now into our fourth month. Success or failure in this area seems to be subjective. When researching fora on the Internet I found webmasters who felt that tens of signups within a couple of weeks was not particularly successful. This forum now has 21 signups over a four-month period. While it is desirable to have more in order to increase the level of debate, I consider a steady buildup of members successful. Certainly there is lively debate; although not much dissent yet. Only time will tell whether it will grow much larger and whether we will start to see people posing a different point of view in the discussions.
Meanwhile as an experiment I think it has worked reasonably well. I am content with how things are developing.