For me, when modding I mod the game to please myself. If I find it enjoyable then maybe I'll present it to others.

Regarding sub-forums etc, I believe only mods that have something like a playable beta at least merit an own sub-forum no matter how big or beautiful or how exciting those mods are, which unfortunately never seen the light of the day. How sad, and what a waste of bandwith I should say.

During our conversion project, only when we have a playable beta version do we asked for sub-forum in RTR's own forum. For me, the satisfaction is not seeing 100 or 1000 downloads, but to know that I myself will play the mod as long as it takes and hope others enjoy it too.

That's all I can think of.