I think the issue with this forum is that the reason why it's so dead nowadays is because not only has it gone through way too many makeovers, it has lost its taste for being the source of knowledge, whether it be for warez or simple website building. It's 2014 guys, if you're on here and you still don't know the basic ins and outs of a server, you need to really sit down and see if this is what you want to do as a hobby (or job). And along with that, many of the questions brought to the help section are very basic, or CBA questions that take way too long to investigate because people are busy and eventually when you do answer the question, the member has forgotten the issue.
You guys talk about spammers and hijackers, but when you keep saying the same excuse you've had for the past 2 years, that you've been saying to every other issue, I think that's when you guys have to realize that your answers are redundant (i.e. "All forums have X, we are doing our Y to resolve X. We have Z that already helps us with X, but as any forum, X will exist).
Now, remember the days when forums used to, I don't know, let me toss something outrageous out there, actually give a shit and toss your excuses out the window, find a more efficient solution, resolve/help with the problem, THEN answer the complaint? If you guys keep using the same mindset for all whiny members, in a couple months, you guys are going to wish you actually had a member who gave a enough of a flying rats ass to post a thread of some kind, despite the fact that they struggle to type proper English.
Conformity, smh. From one forum Administrator to another, Hawk, fix your fucking shit. I can't even get a hard on thinking about nostalgia from here because the bullshit that fogs my view. It seems that you guys are living life, and everyone understands that, but truth be fucking told that if you guys put 2-4 hours into actually tidying up the place, I bet those green stacks you guys see bi-weekly will double.
I'd write more but long posts suck, and even with stupid fucking blue bold, I still skipped past this entire thread. This isn't a long post, but to some, it is.
So, TL;DR - The reason why this forum feels like a 3 day old hooker that was shot to the head but for some strange reason, shit still has a shade of pink is because the passion is gone. And I don't blame you guys, god I'd bounce after the entire fucking melodramatic shit with stahplockerFiLEZ pls paypal bad!! then megaupload then kidpornz then whatever stupid shit you guys had coming to you because of your mundane choice of staff.
Merry Christmas WJ, but you make me sad every time I open up the forum every couple weeks, only to see that I can't even use you guys as a reliable source for web hosts anymore because of how shaky the Staff activity is. Stop riding the cow till it dies, and help the cow live a little, so that you can continue riding it for a few more years.