I love these type of threads lol.

I'm a semi-lurker, since I feel like most of my posts are pointless and useless.

Couldn't have put it better myself. I've lurked since 08, but I just don't see many threads that I feel like posting in because it's the same ol' again and again. And there is a lot of immature shit too, which I understand because we have a lot of young people here. At the start I found myself trying to lift the maturity of the conversation and arguments but it's a waste of time. 

I still enjoy coming here occasionally, it's a good community most of the time and I really like the sales data. But I don't think I'd ever be a regular poster here.

Most threads on the site end up being flame wars which I'm sick of and don't want to take part of. To make sure I'm not part of them, I don't post that often. Also you could say I'm not a great gamer. I suck at finishing games before I move on to the next one, and if I haven't finished a game (or played it extensively), I don't want to talk that much about it as there's a lot that I don't actually know to talk about.

Judging by my 10 post per day status, I'm an active user, but sometimes I just really feel like leaving the site for a while, there's plenty of "my console is better than yours har har har" discussions, and a particular activity some of you may refer to as "stealth trolling", i.e. trolling but with a very very clever way of saying things so that you stay within the rules, or having ties with mods, the people on this forum with the highest post counts either mastered this or are spammers, and it's mostly these 3 things that have made the forums be much more unappealing than say, 2007, I was a lurker back then and the site was miles better than what it is now.

I took about a year break (maybe more) from VGChartz, and joined other forums like Neogaf and GameSpot. At Neogaf, you can actually have a good discussion about anything, as well as GameSpot (before the redesign). The GameSpot redesign is mainly the reason why I'm back here. This site has definitely lost its charm, and it gets repetitive & boring very fast - not to mention the amount of fanboy/doom threads filling up the front page. I avoid them altogether, but it doesn't send a good message to potential newcomers. Also even when a decent discussion is going on, it ultimately gets derailed.

One of the big things I disliked about VGChartz was the removal of the database; improving the game's pages gave me something to do while browsing the forum. Without it, I got bored of the forums incredibly fast. Separating gamrreview and removing gamrfeed are also a few things I disliked as they would also keep me occupied while I waited for more forum posts. The site feels very stripped back now since there's less content. Also those redundant nation threads take away some of the forum activity since most of the video game news get posted there. Why have a PlayStation only thread when we have a Sony forum? Same with Nintendo & MS. They're cramming one entire subforum into a single thread.

Anyways with that said, I would post a little bit more if there was a mobile version; posting via a smartphone sucks, so I have to wait until I get home and turn on my computer.

I used to be really active but, I have been able to post a lot lately. School, relationship, gaming, jobs.... lol

good points and i agree the mods should cut those threads,i prefer the time when indivdual threads were made for all that stuff,i think it gets discussed from time to time and i also wish we had better game collection tools/page/display

also i have lurked since early 08 and we need to bust the myth that it is just a sony fanboys site,mine eyes do not deceive me

I just hit 50 posts the other day after over three years.  The reason being...I look at this site almost every day at work, but not at home.  For whatever reason, the browser at work is screwed up and won't let me post.  Its not that I don't want to sometimes, I just can't do it.

I feel like this defines me for a couple of years lol. I lurked for the latter half of last gen because the discussion generally became boring when it was clear to everyone that the wii was the clear winner.. A new gen has started so I post more often since the site is more interesting again.