I will post in this thread to bump it. I'm going to be copying and pasting my comment on Carl's wall. You can check out his wall here: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/profile/34358/carl2291/ For the whole conversation.
This is what I said:
"I have to tell you that even in my short stay I can see the sites quality going down, not fast but a very slow decline. What brought me here was the awesome charts for sales and such. I LOVED them! It brought me enough to be able to sign up. Now that they are gone it is very saddening. Also, there are severally big users who are no where near as active as they used to be. It sucks when someone leaves and that is what is happening with VGC. Also... we have a TON of people who sign up and then do absolutely nothing. They just take up space. I, in my opinion, need to try my hardest to be near as good as the people who left. I know I can never reach the caliper of someone like Oliist but I still need to try. Another thing is that people just do. not. comment. I keep a ton of views each time my Pokemon Thread bumps up into the hot topics but no one comments! Same thing with Ryan's old Nintendo thread. People just don't seem to have an incline to post anymore.
The site has the tools to do it and the know how. There is just something that hasn't been hit yet, something that I can't quite put a finger on."
Carl also said this in another thread:
"Ill be honest, I think the whole split thing is stupid. The community should be brought together, rather than split up.
Get rid of gamrFeeds current state - Make it more user friendly. Go back to how things were before, get people finding allsorts of news on the Internet. Get niche AND big news, but don't go overboard. Get people doing cool, fun features again.
Get it so VGChartz itself is the main site. Make gamrReview/Feed subsites of VGC. Have gamrConnect a sub-site ONLY for profiles and a chatroom and have VGChartz as a forum page like it used to be. Make it so you can view the forums quickly, like it was on the old blue VGChartz. A box with all the forums - All, Gaming, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, PC, Mobile, Offtopic. You click one, the box updates showing you the 25 most recent threads. Quick, easy, simple.
A similar box on the same page for Charts. You can click between WW, USA, EU, UK, FRA, GER, JP, etc. You get the Top 10 + console sales of each and to view the full SW charts, you simply click "WW Software, 33rd February 5167" or whatever.
Bring back the prediction league for gamrConnect. Bring back graphs + comparison tools for VGChartz.
For me, as a member here since 2008 and a lurker from before, these things would be perfect. We get everything on the page (quite like it is now) only in a simpler, easier to use format. Not only that, the site itself doesnt have to have the frankly pointless gamrTV.
VGC keeps the adverts, still gets lots of hits, doesn't split everyone up further killing the already dying discussion."