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Once again, I agree with our Queen. When I came into YC, we had about 20-30 very active members and a few good-natured, silly threads running - and feeding the spirit of a "community". I made my best to fit in and get involved by reviewing a lot of music, posting frequently, and putting up my own compositions (which fortunately gathered quite a few reviews on their own). I also made a few great friends in the way (Elizabeth, CJ, DinaHeartX, Sonataform, Sojar Voglar, Gretchen, SYS65, JrCramer, Sarastro, to throw some names). But at times I felt that very few people were as committed - and I must admit I got a bit worn out. Now we have about 10-12 moderately active members (most of which have already posted something in this thread), but no active leadership (the moderators and administrators themselves aren't even heard of - except for Stirling Radliff and maybe SYS65 who at least shows up with some frequency) and the "community spirit" has all but vanished. To worsen matters, I seem to be the only member of the reviewing staff that at least checks up daily - not that I'm reviewing works as I used to. Most of the remaining active members appear to think very lowly of their own musical knowledge, thus becoming afraid of sharing it, let alone write a scathing review of anything. And there is also this member who, while remaining technically "active", does nothing else than upload his own stuff every few days, completely oblivious to any feedback he receives or (even worse) to the fact that other composers might also want feedback for their stuff. Is there anything we might do to change this?

*cough* coup d'etat *cough*

Morivou was in and out of the website even back when I was around. (At the time) He was a student and so it was hard to balance school with YC. Obviously school comes first. Not sure if a "live" meeting is the way to go, seeing as how we're all over the place and we may not have as nice of a turn out. Having ideas running through this thread is a good idea in my opinion.

Americans secretly long to rejoin Britain. That's also why "America" is set to the tune of "God Save the Queen", and why "I Vow To Thee My Country" (aka "Jupiter") is so popular. Governor-General Obama has been in negotiation with the House of Commons to return British South Canada to its rightful owner, but the Tories keep blocking it; they don't want a repeat of the Boston Tea Party incident.