Ace of Circle

Besides I think a LOT of you missed the point, I never said we should "close up shop, because the brand and fandom is dead". In fact I spent some (looking back probably not enough) time saying the opposite. For example, in my original post it clearly said "I am NOT saying to shut down the site or anything as stupid as that"

As for the supposed "rule" I'm apparently trying to enforce. I never said that everyone has to post regularly. I never said everyone has to bring new members. I definitely never said to take away posters freedoms, and I meant posting in this thread because someone who didn't have a friend who had said that they weren't coming back probably wouldn't have any idea whatsoever what I'm talking about.

I'm honestly not sure if I need to clarify everything I say, or if some people are reading way too much into it (or just twisting it), to the point where it means the complete opposite.

What! I meant posting in this thread! I'm not that messed up!

maybe...

I agree with the fact that all sites, especially this one, go through cycles of inactivity, but personally I don't think that this and that are the same thing. I'm going to try and come on this site as much as I used to, and not just to check messages, but to post, be involved etc... but I honestly can't see many people doing that.

I get that this community has other things to talk about, whether related to Naruto or not but the underlying foundation, NaruSaku, has all but disappeared no matter how dodgy the asspull is. I'm not saying the fandom has, but the hope for it has.

This site and the people here, are too big a part of my life for me to give up as easily as this, and those of us that remain should remain, but if you look at recent posts, they're all by the same group of people and rarely with the same variety of posters that used to grace this site.

My point wasn't that Naruto is the best or most important thing, or even anime. It's that Heaven & Earth isn't as active as it used to be, or as energetic. Even though we stayed together for other reasons, the reason we came here, the foundation of the website is the NaruSaku fandom. Kishi took that away... subsequently a lot of people stopped caring... about Naruto, about NaruSaku and eventually this site.