[deanhills]

I didn't say it's sponsors fault at all. I said the reason why forum lost activity is because lost of sponsors / servers. That's why quality posts and posters decreased. Sponsors don't come running just because its a popular forum. You need to reach out and try to get them. No its not easy task either but that doesn't mean it shoudn't be done either.

Many ask this question for last couple of years since freevps.us started loosing sponsors. given suggested created a group for volunteers who can represent freevps.us and reach out providers. Some staff members simply brushed off this telling no need to bother we will take care of it.  This suggestion came because nobody can work 24/7 as free volunteers. But they didn't want that and appealingly they hadn't taken care of either. Now suddenly out of no where they say They are going to close the shop because nobody posting quality posts. That's wrong is so many levels.

I'm so with you on this too @xdude. Just imagine the traffic it would have generated if we had had a thread from a very enthusiastic Admin who is gung-ho to work on getting sponsors for FreeVPS.  Which brings us to the real problem.  Lack of  creative, enthusiastic and dynamic forward moving Admin after the departure of Chris and Monad and retirement of the owner.  It was deeply frustrating to see the Giveaway Process slipping in standards when the new Giveaway Manager right from the very beginning clearly didn't have the time to do the job - he should never have taken it on.

With the exception of SLC I also didn't see any of the Admin or the Moderators making quality threads and tutorials to inject some positive energy into the Forum and to motivate others to post to the same standard. I'd say most of the Mods couldn't write quality posts anyway.  Like way to go, appointing someone who can't write quality posts, to moderate posts that need to be to a high standard.  I think others have pointed this out as well.  The obsessive preoccupation with a high standard of quality was a problem too.  They should have been a little more relaxed about that.  Not completely relaxed, but enough to build a happy community who would be motivated to post even when they didn't have to.