PFFT I woulda done it knowing they'd probably never see me again XD Just post a final goodbye rant about it and leave XD (but in a kind way just pointing out the strictness X3)
Well from experience in the first 3-4 months I got 50+ members, so if you advertise (and your artwork, no doubt, is definitely great enough to get lots of people to come
) you'll start getting people quite quickly
One of my old site had an average of .9 members joining per day (which made me happy XD). But the site got ditched because while I was gone three weeks it died and I didn't feel like resurrecting it D":