Neither. Like Mallory, I (re)joined during a Christmas break where everyone went home to their families and I couldn't, so with no one around I looked for some sort of outlet.
I've drifted off now that I'm just spending more time doing things and hanging out offline or on other sites. But there were some cool things worth mentioning along the way. The art forum has (had? I dunno who's still there anymore...) some cool and really talented folks, like the seldom seen Anastasia, whose art basically inspired me to go even crazier with putting life into Pokémon characters (along with playing with color) and still does today.
Negatively, it does seem like nothing really matters on this site, so for a period of time my level of enthusiasm dropped like a stone and I really didn't care to try to be insightful anymore. You give what you get, or at least how you feel. All the repetition didn't/doesn't help. It's especially telling when people ask questions/make comments of some such right under your own post, asking about something you just answered. Come on, people.
Granted, that time passed as well, and now I'm just disinterested, but at least indifferent. When you can't change things, just go with it, I suppose. Ugh, that sounds like a terrible moral.
I'm still holding out for that one "WOW" factor, that's probably why I keep coming back, but like Kanzler, I'm thinking I've got out of it all I'm gonna get out of it. The old adage goes "you get out of it what you put in", but in a post-and-go super anonymous (and possibly self interested?) environment, you could put in all day every day and still not move an inch forward, making it all seem meaningless, leading to personal inactivity.
I dunno, I guess it's like going to a store that's really far away, and sells (in theory) the thing you really wanted/needed, but they sold out, and having driven that far, are in the mindset of "I spent two hours driving this far out, I'm coming out of here with something, dangit".
Well on a positive note, the art's still cool to view now and then. And I never know when I'll find a really fun topic like the character interviews topic in the fic section. Short lived but probably the most fun I've had here. So it's a journey, with some enjoyment to be had along the way. It's the little things, I guess.