I'm probably going to be speaking out of turn here, so please forgive me, but I genuinely think that we need to do three things; write, ensure our written work is completed and advertise. The first and second is particularly difficult in multi-participant threads where (for example) someone's turn comes up and they are away on business for two weeks, or on holiday, and a thread stalls. I'm in about four active threads where I am waiting on responses, and I considered starting solos to keep the engine ticking over but I feel like the threads I am in are so important to Shinsou's development that liquid timing it won't cut it.

We also look stupid when we do a massive featured quest and then leave it stagnant and unjudged. Whilst this particular situation hasn't affected us too much, we have had all sorts of problems with hyping up events and then leaving them to just decompose. It sends out a bad signal to new guys that we are the kind of site where things just get left to rot, and we need to avoid that from happening in the future.

We have a solution in the works for the advertising conundrum, where Mr Fox has kindly volunteered to assist.