Creativity has slowed down.

Man, am I the only one that feels like activity has gotten shitted on the last couple of years? Look at this forum.

No, you're not. I've been saying this for a long time. I've made plenty of posts about this in the past i.e.: http://zelaron.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35568. Usually people told me, "Don't worry, it's a slow time in the year for everyone. Things will pick up once summer starts." Summer started, and now it's over. Things never picked up.

Now compare that to yourself. Do you feel as productive now as you did 3 years ago? I sure don't. I'm sort of stuck in this "I can never have enough time to do anything!" mode of thinking and can't undertake any projects like getting into a flame war because I won't have enough time to even finish what I started. [Actually WHILE I WAS WRITING THAT SENTENCE I looked at the clock and said "shit! better hurry this up!"]

The truth is, I check as often as before, I believe. I'm not spamming 100+ posts a day, but I'm still checking. Any threads I find intriguing I post in. The problem is that I don't find that many threads intriguing anymore. I still post quite often at other, more specific forums, and whenever there is a thread, such as this one, which interests me, I post in it.

-Has George Bush's cabinet of evil managed to lull society back into the 1900s?

Heh, I could start debating on the same old topic. That would bring some activity temporarily.

While I'm on it... why has the production of both "good" [and addicting] video games and anime basically crawled to a stop? It's an odd coincidence that this coincides with the amount of posting that's been going on in this forum, and the stress I feel like I'm put under. Is originality and creativity in the world as a whole dropping dramatically?

Perhaps we need new strategeries on how to go about being more creative?

WoW was supposed to have been the savior of Zelaron, and it had the potential to be. I think the division between you and Vollstrecker divided quite a bit of the forums. The division caused (I believe) Timmay1113, Vollstrecker, Slim, MightyJoe and others to become less active here. It also made other members who didn't know what guild to go to after yours split to go to other guilds and become more active participants there rather than here. If Primal Dominion had somehow been the official guild of Zelaron, we might have retained all our past members, and had at least 20-30 new active members.

If anyone wants to scrap together a Zelaron guild on one of the newer servers that blizzard comes out with, it might cause activity to rise again.

Another thing that could temporarily boost activity is a large fight between two groups here. I don't know how else to solve this problem without recruiting new members like Chruser used to back in the day.

A large fight between two groups, eh? Dragoon Elite vs. the rest of the forum.

FIGHT!

I think we should bring teh pr0n and the warez ...then the forums will boost !

A large fight between two groups, eh? Dragoon Elite vs. the rest of the forum. FIGHT!

That would be fun ... great minds think a like!


Anyways... people take shit personal and all that shit, the old members aren't welcoming the new members, its getting old, and ya...people are getting bored of zel, I mean come on chroozer don't even get on hardly and once in a while in WoW forum we get a WW post

A large fight between two groups, eh? Dragoon Elite vs. the rest of the forum. FIGHT!

Haha! Funny thing is, Dragoon Elite, although we do live in our own little world sometimes, actually contribute to a LOT of activity at Zelaron, and we have already gotten about 5 very active members posting here, and they are all starting to spread their posting around the rest of Zelaron. Hell, even I started posting more often again, although NOTHING compared to my old self.

S2AM is a good guy, but he can get under people's skin. It's like D3V, unless you know him or give him a chance, you will most likely hate him. Some people are acquired tastes when it comes to posting style.