See, my biggest problem with PC is this: Members focus on activity rather than quality of post. As such, I feel like a lot of replies are monotonous, forced and robotic and are there just for the sake of well posting. There's barely any discussions or disagreements made, members just post to answer the topic and leave.
Yes, in that regards, having so many threads is a huge hindrance. Considering PC has a problem where activity is everything, having many threads will make them focus on posting on all of them half assingly rather than focus on a quality post that demands discussion in a single thread, which is more worth than 100 posts about your favorite random things. There's this illusion here that activity matters most, and that's simply not true.
What makes it worst above all is the abundance "what's your favorite [thing]" which actually don't encourage discussions but end up being full of drive by posts. Now they're fine, but when the section basically consists of these there's a huge problem. No, I don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about your favorite video game enemy or NPC or animal or side kick (what?) or whatever. It comes down to the point where I have to criticize someone's choice JUST so there's a discussion going around.
It ruined this section for me. Before, there weren't many people here, but it was great discussing a specific one topic. "Activity" came in and now it's just full of one off threads with one off posts. It gets hard to keep up with threads now with their abundance, and I jst don't bother anymore. Activity? ♥♥♥♥ that. You don't get activity by making millions of thread, you get it by making a quality post that DEMANDS replies. It boils down to "quality over quantity" basically. Now this doesn't bother me anymore because I basically left this place (second time logging in since my declaration of leave, it's progress!) and I just hang around on NeoGAF where this ♥♥♥♥ is unacceptable.
Oh and it does make you look like you're trying hard to become a mod.
