So how does it work? Creating a new online community.

If you were to create a website that is to be an online community (forum, textboard, imageboard, hybrid, anything etc) how do you get people to it if you were not to go out and ``advertise'' it and instead simply just created the website, made it searchable through search engines utilizing keywords and the URL of the site, and simply letting it sit? Will people discover it and then stay and start posting?

Now I think ``normal'' isn't the right word. Or maybe it is. Now the appeal of /prog/ is of its presumably intelligent denizens and their surreal humour that which may be immature but isn't childish like 4chan and reddit. 4chan and reddit isn't really populated with seriously mentally ill people. Its population is basically more of the the average teen and young adult (and a good amount of them possessing a mentally ill mind though not serious). And so that may in fact be the new normal or it may not. I doubt their parents and grandparents would approve on the other hand they may approve of Usenet and /prog/ (or at least not understand it). I want an intelligent, respectable, adult, but surreal sort of community.