Earlier this year I started a social experiment - I installed a forum script, made sure it's perfectly functional, disabled email verification and account approval and abandoned the board. I came to check on it now few months later and the forum has following stats:
Our users have posted a total of 2524 articles
We have 2864 registered users
Most users ever online was 16 on Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:22 pm
The forum - no surprise - is a spam heaven of doom, but I only invested a little time into it and to a random stranger it will look like it's alive and kicking
