I mean, not having a go or anything...it's slipped from a daily check to a weekly check for me. Sometimes two weeks in between visits. The articles are still fine it's just a total lack of community or desire to cultivate one.

It's like they opted to go the route of a large site without considering that this is a niche thing...and in the process lost their niche audience.

This site is a skeleton of its former self. Depressing how quickly it fell of the cliff. Why are people still writing articles?

(Drives to DMV to change name to "Diesel")

Great film to have on as you drift into REM sleep.

I'm not knocking the content at all, it's more about the lack of comments and activity. You guys would know more about the site stats than me, it just seems like there is WAY less activity than there used to be. I kinda feel like a variety of factors are playing into that, the spam in the forums is one part. The point system is another, I stopped commenting because even when I would post something helpful, it would have -3 votes...lol. It kind of creates a win/lose aspect to comments. Seems like the formula for success is to not show negative votes, if it goes below zero it just shows zero.

I don't think the content plays any part in the equation, honestly. Still good articles and content but almost no comments on those articles. Again, it's a ghost town compared to the past. Or at least, that's how it appears to this reader :)

Also, I blame 65% of NFS's demise on Alex Ferrari or whatever his name was. Once he got going I stopped browsing the boards here, I'm sure I wasn't the only one.