To me, this community is about relationships. The macro relationships between everyone across the league to the micro relationships to the teams you play for and the departments you work for. Success, therefore, can be defined as building and maintaining healthy, productive, and mutually beneficial relationships. In an online community with a fair bit of anonymity, that goal can be pretty difficult to reach. Anonymity breeds toxicity, and you can see that filtering through in a lot of situations permeating this league and other groups like it. The average age of this community is a fair bit higher than other similar communities I have personally experienced, and, because of that, I believed that it was better than those others I have spent time with. I still think that the majority of users here are fairly mature, but there will always be bad events and heated emotions will always seep through to create negative situations. It is how we react to these situations and move forward together as a community, as a team, as a department, and as individuals that defines success. I think this league is fairly successful; it has lasted several years and, despite many people coming and going, it has endured with many long time members. I hope it continues that way and that we see many more successful years of existence.
Thank you to @enigmatic, @Kyamprac, @mithrandir, @Mooty99, and @Number 82 for some of the sigs in this rotator.