I keep on saying time and again that I'm just not active enough to do the duties that some members feel I deserve to be doing, such as being Admin. I mean, I could give a real concentrated effort on it, but I can't give any guarantees on being able to bring this forum out of the gutter.
I agree with Pumpt, I think we have a damn good core of members. I also agree with Axis, we need to have some sort of a debate section that welcomes intelligent posting and debating about real life issues. This section would require some special attention from the Mods to make sure that childish noobies could not disrupt the flow of conversation. And yes, that includes deleting, warning and infracting for stupid and distracting posts.
I think we just need to resell the majority of the board to newer potential members on it's merits. Sell the Wrestling Discussion sections to the newer kids welcoming them to spam their love/hate for the faces and heels, maybe even renaming the whole WWE based sections as the Kayfabe Corner. Then have a separate section of News/Rumors/Indy wrestling talk where the smarks have a place to go to voice their opinions on wrestling whenever it hits their fancy.
Hell in a Thread needs to be revamped completely to be focused on allowing controversial, NSFW material. Even fusing the section with the Nude Divas and Bit Torrenting sections just so that HIAT can be a hub of specialized, VIP specific debauchery. Once HIAT has a clear purpose, I think activity there will spike.
BTB is dead. I think the entire section needs to be abolished and allow Axis to have his own thread in the E-Fedding section or whatever where his TNA BTB is THE featured fantasy writing blog on the site. That way he can get more traffic individually. Since he's gonna write that BTB whether anybodies reading it or not, I think he deserves kudos for sticking with it.
I'll be reinstated as Admin if that's what people want and overlook the changes. I'll need someone to be commissioned to make an audio commercial that I will personally spread out to the Angry Marks Podcast Network, where I co-host a radio show and am good friends with the owners. This will give us even more exposure, and possibly help to establish IWF as the official forums sponsoring Angry Marks, so that they can advertise their syndicated programming on here and share their viewers with us so that we can all be one big wrestling and mma community. But that could interfere with the actual IWF website that Mark runs with their podcast network, so I dunno if that will work. But I can definitely spread our name around that community anyway even without a mutual advertising agreement.
Otherwise I can do my best to stay out of people's way when it comes to them posting as they see fit. That includes from the likes of Colin, Beer, Lady Hotrod, C-4 and others. I don't want to be "that guy" being the overbearing Mod that I was before trying to lead a crusade against trolling. I just want to do what I can to help out. And if all of these changes still can't get us increased activity, then I suppose we can just float here until Mark gets sick of paying the fees to keep this piece of junk running.