With so many people delving into the paranormal, many of which get inspiration from youtube, tv or social media channels, how can we as a community work together to inform groups/ individuals (constructively) on best practices, maintaining integrity, and keeping people informed of the reasons why we all do what we do for investigation?

It has been almost a year since the 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 community was launched. It was created to provide a fun and safe space for people to learn about and talk about the paranormal. Many of the conversations on social media are filled with negativity and bullying, and I wanted to create something that was not that. I spent many, many hours working on creating classroom content and planning weekly discussion topics. My hope was that this community would grow and thrive with like-minded people sharing about their personal experiences, paranormal theories, investigation evidence, and more. While it was a slow start, we gained many new members, and I was very excited that our community was growing. However, despite the growing number of members, there was not much increase in discussion. After a while, it was slowly becoming a ghost town, with many members never even logging in, joining in on discussions, or making their own posts. I was driving the community posts, which was fine for a while, but with little to no engagement, it became exhausting and frustrating. The idea I had for this fun and exciting community was dwindling. The excitement of coming on here and reading people's discussions was gone. It now feels like a chore to even make a post because I know people won’t read it or respond. Not only that, but Skool as a platform has made some changes and is slowly changing into something different. I have been thinking a lot about the future of the Paranormal Explorers Collective. As it is right now, it is not a sustainable community, and I don’t want to be posting into the void. That being said, I am going to give it one more month, and if engagement doesn’t increase, I am going to archive the community. What does that mean? That means you will no longer be able to make posts or comments in the community, and it will be in a “read-only” format. This gives me the opportunity to come back and reopen the community in the future if I want. If this happens, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝘀𝘁 will be the last day for the Paranormal Explorers Collective.