It may have seemed dead over the weekend because we were all gone at the fair and spent about 3 days away from computers.
That makes sense.
But it seemed to me to be dead for a couple weeks. I wondered what had happened to the board - if everybody was on vacation or had gotten bored with it or something. (And I HAD seen the notice that you were going to only put the hot stuff up there - but I guess it didn't connect.)
Yes there's a lot of rehashing, which can get repetative, then boring, then drive people away. But if I were just coming to the board for the first time (as the clueless newbie I was at the time) and had seen it the way it has been lately, I think I'd probably have decided it was a low-activity board with little to interest me and gone away again, instead of getting seriously hooked, learning a LOT about practical wind power, and contributing some perhaps useful stuff from my own childhood interest in and college exposure to power system tech.
Suggestion: Put a notice at the top of the front page that this is just a high-interest sampling and that users should be sure to visit the topic of interest, where a lot of additional stuff is happening.
And let me add my own thank-you for all your effort starting and running this wonderful resource. B-) (As someone who has run mailing lists and co-administered conferencing systems, I can appreciate how much work it is and how often thankless the users seem.)
