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Dear Cynthia, Enzie, Thomassin and Sharon:

Thanks for welcoming my suggestions, which were just meant as ways to improve traffic and contributions on this fabulous site.

Sharon has been a very active moderator, as mentioned before, but I still think it would make a world of difference if Cynthia could "hook" a few more proactive moderators, who could get things moving again. Even if such active engagement was not part of the original moderator profile, as Cynthia reminds us, now might be the time to look into engaging proactive individuals. The difference between highly active SOG members and SOG moderators then would be that the latter commit themselves to *regular * contributions or interventions.

There are other rmoderators who have been highly visible, such as Mike McCarthy, who had a terrific thread on compositions, which he kept alive himself, even when members were not responding. Sharon, too, has been injecting similar information at times when there wasn't much traffic (and of course Enzie, in her capacity as member). But other moderators never or hardly ever show and are virtually invisible. Or they might at times briefly praise a member contribution, but that's about it. Just like a charity doesn't work when its volunteers are inactive, so this forum may be suffering from having some kind, willing but ultimately inactive volunteers around.

Sybilla