We've only been active for a sixth, not a quarter, but fuck you.
This site is currently: Utter shit.
The blog over which such high passions were spent is inactive and retarded. The only half-decent post was what, well over four times over the word limit set by our marketing-oriented overlord? The rest is limp and stunted, and as a consequence no one can be bothered to try anymore. Out of the few who were willing to begin with, mind you.
The forum itself, oh boy. Debate and Discourse, the "serious" part of the forum, is a cess-pool. I count approximately five people (Dread Fussy Low-key Randy Hazir) trying to have talks about economics or politics or whatever dumb shit they care about, while jabbering idiots post incessantly around them, making a pretty piss-poor signal to noise ratio. I'm certainly not the only one who has noted the destructive role played by Being, Alpha Romeo et al.
The "casual" segment fares marginally better, because the level of discourse is at such an abysmal low. "I farted when we shagged", "I'm stalking a girl", "This is where I buy vidja-games!", no one gives a fucking shit except the people posting. Obvious corollary, nothing significant is said. Nothing lost and nothing gained.
After the high tides raised over at you know where, and the subsequent flurry of activity to move here, I suppose I'm somewhat crass to say this. Heavens know the more capital-inclined morons of our merry little asylum went into over-drive when poor Wraithy had to shell out money (can you believe it, actual fucking MONEY) to create this place, and keep it running. Content bought and paid for is always fuck-awesome, and who am I to critique it anyway? While the motion for transparency didn't pass, the self-same capital-inclined 'tards are free to point out that I did not shell a single dime for this enterprise, and dismiss this out of hand.
I do realize that while it is a popular idea to start banning for stupid, it's a slippery slope. I don't think it's feasible to start popularity votes (and that's a fucking understatement) about whom to keep. Nor would anyone be happy with a dictatorship of some arbitrary forumbyro. There doesn't seem to be any solutions to the problems. But it does strike me as somewhat odd that the administration part of the site opted to go in the polar opposite route and foster a thread-based blog of a person almost certainly cataloguing the daily developments of their deep-seated mental illness. How does that reflect on the precious image of the site?
The bottom line is that I have little interest in even trying to post in the serious sub-forum (to the delight of many, I'm sure), and I have the impression I'm not alone in this.