Are things slower around here?

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Feel free to step up and make several projects then, I guess.

The bolded is unfortunately negative, yeah, but that doesn't make it any less true. Ignoring the elephant in the room won't exactly fix the problem and I wouldn't be a very good mod if I couldn't speak objectively about things and just said "yeah the forum's great!" and shut down any discussion on it.
It's no secret that we have an aging and declining userbase (both as a cause to and as a result of) declining activity.

I've been saying these same things since LONG before I was modded, dude. This isn't a recent thing, it's been going on for a really long time. Tyvon was saying these same things when he was a mod, as were 1up and several other people and that was years ago. When I first became a mod, I went through and completely overhauled the rules and tried to get things on track, but one person can't do it alone. That goes for me, Gorsal, or anyone else. Even Previous tried to do it in his own way and it didn't work for him either. It takes the entire community working together to fix these things, but as I said before, most people either don't care, don't have time, or don't have the skill.

(As an aside, don't take this to mean that I'm not trying to do anything about it; we have several plans in the pipeline, they just aren't ready yet.)

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The resource would have some connections wouldn't it? Maybe get a word out via some site like Dorkly, or DYKG (though that's kind of connected now isn't it?).
I'm sure a few people here and there wouldn't mind the publicity to some kind of agreement.

Sorry, I didn't mean to skip your post.

We (well, I can't speak for everyone, but I know I and a few other people) were hoping that the existence of VGFacts would bring in a buttload of new membership to tSR. I guess somewhere along the line there was a breakdown in communication and we were under the impression that there would be a community merger, which would bring DYKG's userbase to tSR and tSR's expertise to DYKG. As we're all aware now, that didn't exactly happen.

VGF has its own completely separate forum, and aside from you, as far as I know the only VGF member that ever came here was A Zombie Riot and he only posted for about a week.