I agree Lagu. You are perceptive. I've noticed it also. I think the recent bits of drama that have occurred here have generated this under-tone of silence from the group members, myself included. I dont like to be involved with the drama, but other than occasional interesting tidbits and jokes, there is not allot of heavy project related postings going on like before. I think people posts tidbits and humor in a attempt to lighten things up or just to generate some traffic during these silent periods.

I also think that our recent failure to really get organized as a team in our group efforts has not helped in everyone eyes. We all see plenty of examples of other teams and their accomplishments as we continue to lose in most of our group competitions. We are a fairly small group that is getting over shadowed as more groups get into the fray and DC'ing becomes more mainstream. This second fact does not help the matter either.

Like Nflight said, we need advertisement to drum up membership to grow the group, and a organized effort to direct our efforts into a rallying call that people flock to for competition sake.

If the above is not done, then there is a good possibility the general mood might continue for awhile, and probably drive members away to more interesting avenues.