^There's our leader, he's the only man for the DB job. Obviously it's got to be an original DB Admins, you can't pick someone that's not an Admin, you need someone with lot's of experience and we all know who's got the most.

The only improvement I see that is drastically needed is speed (like a few people have already mentioned). The heavy implementation of flash is nice for looks but bogs the speed way down.  I even upgraded my internet to 20 mbps dl/2 upload and I still see long load times.  However, it seems to happen at certain times (perhaps the heavier traffic periods).  Sometimes this site loads pretty quick and is just as fast as others.  However, sometimes it is very slow and I am just waiting for the site to load.  The main thing I ask you to focus on is speed (make it fast even during high traffic times).  Also, please don't post news articles calling for doom, etc.  I've seen a little too many Nintendo is doomed news stories the past few days.  While each news story might have some legitimate argument against Nintendo; who in their right mind would say Nintendo is doomed (oh wait...  Patcher...).  Anyways, I understand that titles should pull people in to the article but there has to be a better way of doing that than semi offending a person's console preference just to attract more hits.

Has the site really grown ioi? 

The news get far less views than 2 years ago, threads rarely get 100 post unless its fanboys war over nothing. We used to have at leat 3 1000 post threads. Now it seems it's 10 to 15 actve users who keep this site alive. Maybe you have more lurkers or more ads, but you are losing your audience. It's not fun here anymore. 

Debate may proceed.

What keeps people around is loyalty to eachother, not whats on this website. It's the loyalty to the community... The focus on community has really been lost over the past year. 2.0 was the best mix of everything. It was a little too much for some people at first, but bearable. People got used to it and stuck around. 3.0 was the straw that broke the camels back...  lots of people got disconnected with the feel of the place and the bond they shared with the community. The ones that are left are here because of loyalty and maybe even hoping that feel would come back. We will see how things turn out. I'm hoping the feel comes back myself... I REALLY would love to have that excitement back that I once had working on the database.... I'll still keep chugging along with adding data, just as fast as the website will let me and my patiance. ~_n

I have a degree that is essentially in research and analysis, as well as quantitative and qualitative data formulation.

Is it worth my applying?  It would be somewhat difficult for me due to the time difference (Australian East Coast), but sorting a regular, weekly time could make it quite doable.

I think we DB's all agree on our leader!

It's stuff like the slow site (and slow news) that keeps me from posting more often. That, and the ignorant fanboys here are goddamn annoying.

Yeah, I've been noticing this too. There are maybe two dozen users with 10k or so posts that basically run every single thread and a lot of the veterans have simply disappeared. I think part of what made Vgcartz so popular was the simplicity and easygoing nature of the forums. Its turning more and more into a IGN-type portal with numerous features and lots of staff but it has so many huge and established sites to compete with. NEOGAF seems to be as popular as ever, I think part of it is that it has remained quite simple. Don't get me wrong here, I still love Vgchartz as much as I always have (otherwise, I'd hardly be posting here at all) but it has died down quite a bit lately.

Why do people complain about "fanboys" though? This place had a whole lot more of them a couple of years back. If anything, this site is more sane and reasonable than ever. I do miss the crazies and legends though, so much entertainment and so many funny remarks to remember.

Did and done, and if you didn't get my Data Monkey stuff I'll resend that.