I think that some of us forget how overwhelming these forums can be-if I sent my Dad here it would take him a half a day to get the just of things and recognizing things like adding a signature and such might be a month away-and I consider him computer literate-he's just not a forum guy.
As I mentioned further up, I hadn't been on for a few big chunks of time-life was going way too fast-it still is but I'm falling back on the internet as an escape again-and have been fortunate enough to get out with the trailer a few times as well.
I'm sure that part of the reason things are more quiet sometimes is due to people searching and reading and moving on as lurkers-I just signed up on another forum that I probably followed almost since day one-but felt it was time to ask a few things I hadn't found answers to and maybe add some of my experiences to help the sites members move forward.
I would imagine that ADMIN will chime in soon with some all-knowing statistics about how many hits a page gets in relation to the number of members and posts-I'm actually kinda curious now...