Well, I may be looking at this differently - but you're seeing nearly a month's posts compared to a week's. The first pick of that draft was made November 14th and the final pick was December 4. With constant check ins and a slower pace - people were freer to talk. I'm sure that nearly 1/10th of those posts were complaints about waiting so long for someone.
On top of that, there's nearly 5 pages of posts just clarifying the rules of the draft - not something that happens now, as we pretty much understand those rules. Believe me, trying to exploit rules not clarified on the op usually results in "that's been the rule forever". Maybe we need to tweek rules for drafts to make us look at player differently. Implement "best season" rules to make players like Brady Anderson look good. Maybe, dead ball rules (give credit for only 1/4 HRs and boost 3Bs, BA, SB and SH) to limit Barry Bonds' impact. Who knows, probably too complicated, but hey it'll make life interesting.
Yes, there's less sharing of real life events. It's hard to share - especially when 2 of the biggest catalysts for those talks were Ritz and WLK. I mean, I've told nearly no one here that Ruth and I tried to adopt - and that we had to withdraw from this situation when a medical condition had me genuinely fearing I could lose my wife. Things are looking up finally over the last week, but it's been a hard two months. On top of that - I went back to school for my bachelor's and started 3 new jobs in the last 3 years - and plan to start my master's next year. And, I'm sure I'm not the busiest one here.
I see the chat active when there are topics to discuss. Housing market issues tend to be good for a page, at least.
I agree with Shane, maybe doing it no more than once every other month will keep the burn out from happening quite so quickly. Will also allow people time to put something together for more complicated drafts if they know a while in advance.
I'd hate for this to end completely. Ruth would notify y'all if something ever happened to me - right after my parents. That's how high in my regard y'all are. But, I've probably been rambling long enough, and should go to bed.
