Has this site gone extinct?

I don't want to be the boy who cried wolf, but things have been awful quiet recently. I'd say that this decline dated from the change in the moderation policy. It seems that at the same time as kicking out the trolls we may have prevented serious ID researchers and students from joining the debate. I think this sends the wrong message, it says we are not open to debate when in fact we are.

So here is what I think: It's time to open up this site again, the new moderation policy is starving this important site of the thing it thrives upon: Lively debate.

What do y'all think?

Sam, I heard you on the ID the Future podcast the other day. I'm sure after appearing on one of the world's best science podcasts hundreds of listeners would have been intersted in joining OE.com - OE.com should be more welcoming to newcomers.

As a suggestion, why don't you publish a column on this site featuring the worst of the troll posts? It would be great to see what passes as argument amongst darwinists these days?

Unfortunately, unless the data was backed up all those troll posts were zapped. And trolls have pretty much given up on attempting to get on here ever since we implemented the new moderation features.

Huh, odd. There "should" be a fairly large number of people already certified as "trusted". I also haven't seen anything in the moderation queue. I've been checking back regularly but I haven't had time to write anything new lately. Marriage does that.

I'd agree that this site definitely needs marketing. It's slowly starting to creep up on google hits (as in, it shows up on the first page with certain searches) but otherwise I haven't seen OE mentioned too much elsewhere.