[Professor S]

Personally, I don't think we have the capacity to operate a column or article driven website in today's day and age. People expect new content daily or several time a week at least and that's just not going to happen. It may for a little while, but it will drop off over time. The fact is we do this for fun, not work.

We are all older and most of us have real lives that demand most of our efforts. Hell, with a kid on the way I suppose my days are numbered, as a regular contributor in any case.

I think a more workable solution would be to leverage the strengths of forum structure and make the site a clearing house of gaming/tech related news and opinion. Here are a few ideas:

1) Make all current/regular members staff (except me, I'm done with that) so that everyone has a stake in the future success of GT. Putting the success or failure of GT on just handful of people is a recipe for failure as we all progress in our real life exploits.

2) Give every staff member a specific and achievable task. EX. Dyne is in charge of collecting links to game reviews from all major gaming sites and posting those links/embeds on one thread each week. It's a small task, but might take all of 30 minutes to complete yet create a great source of content.

3) All staff are to originate threads as either reports of information for discussion or questions, not statements or opinion.

4) Staff created threads should not have more than two paragraphs and preferably should have bullet points and plenty of pics/eye candy. People hate to read. Sad but true.

5) Create lists for debate as an editorial group. EX. Top 10 Action RPG's of all time. Are these ridiculous? Of course but the point is to drive up discussion and hits, not to create an authority of greatness.

6) Lets all wipe the sand out of our vaginas and stop taking every goddamn thing so personally. We're a bunch of random people, most of us adults, talking about video games for Christ's sake. We need to recognize the absurdity of it all and laugh at ourselves. EX. I've known BaB for years and we've always had a good relationship, yet when I try and make an obvious joke and break his balls a little over his Nintendo preference people respond like I killed his puppy. The correct response would have been to ask me the last time a sodomized myself with my 360 controller... but NOOOOOOO... everyone gets defensive and sucks the fun out of it. No one likes a party pooper, especially new members.

In any case, if we really want this site to take off, it will demand a commitment from everyone, if even just a casual one. Follow-through has never been a strong suit of ours when it comes to expanding GT.

Thats my $0.02 for what its worth.