I appreciate your reply, you do make good points, but members on most boards are not really engaging on discussion boards is really not that popular or completely dead,
just look at TER and TNA discussions those are already the better ones on discussions, and the discussions even there is really slow comes in once a day more or less, but if there is a review on TNA, the traffic comes usually from comments on a review members will discuss on discussion board general things like a new place or organ meat or some other bull, but mostly there will be no discussion about a specific girl, I have been online from 1998 and I saw many discussion boards either they where totally dead or took off bit than died down, I myself was a partner in a swingers site , members mostly discussed on a actual review of a swinger place that a member posted , this site is very popular as either members with reviews or without always check out the reviews and check out the comments, not every member wants to post a review, and some members that post that post a review may want to post for some and not for others for various reasons, but the member that does not post if he sees a review good or bad he may want to comment on other as its called piggybacking and many members that post a review are in general satisfied if there is a comment on their review, they get excited if someone post something on their review, and if there is no comments, most will think like nuu why is no one commenting on my review, the only reason why bestgfe is active because their discussions on gentleman's clubs are popular and they do have girls advertise for a fee, if you don't want comments on a review change it write "reviews only no comments" or do as bestgfe is doing they either shut down the comments or deleting most comments on reviews, will see how the traffic will affect your site