I have not logged in for idk how long but i check the forums here and there, why is it so empty around here all the time? i'll probably be asleep before this gets approved so yeah
The thread approval system discouraged a lot of people from posting new threads. A lot of the threads are usually done when they are in the forum-groove, and having to wait for their thread to show up totally kills it. People could post in the off-topic instead, but I feel that almost everyone intends to only post in the General Discussion forum. GD is the most popular out of the rest after all