Announcement from a Mod

[andythesaint]

Three and a half years ago, theskooch and I were killing time during our shift at a now-defunct music store, coming up with various top five lists (e.g., "name your top five John Cusack movies", "Top Five Hitman movies", etc). Even back then, I was more committal while he didn't want to comment on things he hadn't seen. Skooch had just recently started his

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[theskooch]

To say I've come to the same conclusions as Andy is an understatement. For me the breaking point was when we hit 1000 tags here for the community and we couldn't create anymore. For me, that felt like we'd hit a ceiling, grown as big as we could here on LJ. Since that period, my motivation for posting gradually decreased to the level of apathy I'm at now. I haven't posted a movie review since the beginning of the year, and honestly, I'm finding that I enjoy watching movies more nowadays. Neither Andy nor I have spoken to Mikey about this, but I'm not too keen on being a moderator of a community where 80-90% of the members don't contribute other than maybe reading. We rarely seem to get any feedback from anyone other than the die-hards on things, and that has increased my apathy as well.

I'm not going to close down the community or anything. In fact, when I see new posters like the_baxter start making posts, I almost get the urge to start posting again. Honestly, what I'd like to do is put the community into the hands of someone that is excited about it like Andy, Mikey and I all were at one point. I'd like that person(s) to be as anal-retentive as we used to be about Indexing everything and so on. I don't know if there is anyone like that in the community right now though.

[the_baxter]

Thank you! Glad to be here. I'll do my best to keep it lively. I seem to have a knack for the unpopular opinions and that sometimes helps draw activity.