In order to get more activity, you need to invite it. On the Zone, that Off Topic area gets almost as much action and there are posters in there that I rarely saw out in gen pop. It's got to be more than just the Cowboys because there's just so much any of us can say about that.
I think this site is basically an unknown to a lot of people and if they drifted through as I did, once upon a time, and didn't get a lot of action, they just cruised on.
I know that a lot of us built our own thing on DC.com and there was a lot of looking the other way by the mods, if not downright participation because we were all having fun. Didn't matter what we were discussing, we were one upping and building fun, block by block.
One of the challenges is the time factor and some just don't have enough to screw around, they want to talk some Boys and ball and they're on to their obligations. I am more "said all I have to say about that", let's get some new shit going.
It is tough when your forum family gets broken up because I know that's never going to be the same again, it is lightning in a bottle. But that doesn't mean we can't contribute and build something again but it does take effort and time.
I use these forums as therapy. I don't have any friends where I moved to and really don't want to be friends with people that think music died with either Elvis or the Beatles break up and I do have adult ADD so this helps me in rifle shot focus but then I'll drift into shotgun and turn loose but I am harmless but I am like that old warrior they let live on the edge of the reservation because they're not sure about his sanity. Don't go turning your back when your wimmen, whiskey or Jokes for the John books are laying around.
