Lack of new people is killing the backroom and the entire forum

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Some people are resistant to change.

I am one of those people.

Resistant to change for the better as well though?

I'd prefer to keep the senior member/member, but definately remove junior. Same rights yes, gameroom is fully open now, PM size should be doubled for everyone. I've had to empty mine twice in the last 2 months, and I get the 500.

If senior members and members were to become exactly the same, then what would the point of senior membership as purely a title be? Why not just add it as an award as with the CoH and HoF? Why not have all members open to vote on it?

The avatars, however, I still won't budge on. The profile pic can be displayed, and thats free.

While the profile pic is a step in the right direction, it is merely an albeit improved replacement for the old URL avatars and does not go far enough. For someone that is thinking of registering at the .org who does not see the profile pictures, as they are not visible to guests, it's the same old gallery of portraits and boring uniformity they are presented with. They will have no idea that there are personal avatars available and simply note the apparent "restrictions".

Andres: yeah the TWC rank system immediately caused me to cease participation there. I can't even play mafia there because of it.

I don't participate much at TWC these days. In the past I've posted a few times at their STW and MTW fora, without getting involved elsewhere so I don't really understand the politics there. What I do see though I dislike.