I'd be happy if we started fresh and had a new DB. It seems to me this forum is more of a business than a community. I don't know about others here, but I'd be happier if I were part of a community where business, PR and advertising weren't top priority.
Members aren't listened to, Db errors occur pretty much daily, and we have more downtime than any forum I've ever been on, I once ran a free PHPBB forum that was overtaken with bots and spam that never had as much downtime as this forum. I think it should be about members, not about pagerank, post count, or anything. Out of the posts we have here, how many are in locked threads, or threads or are posts that should be deleted because they say "."? If you deleted all of those, you'd probably see a difference. Why we save them is beyond me because they're useless. I like this forum, but I'm closer than ever to leaving because the members aren't listened to, the DB errors and instability of this forum are worse than even the cheapo freebie forums I've been to. How hard is it to just listen to the members and do something about the DB? heck, get someone with a lot of experience to help you out, as long as these dang errors are gone because I and a lot of other people are fed up.
Yeah, I did it. I spoke my mind. I'll probably get banned for it, but sometimes things have to be said whether everyone likes it or not.