This place and VB com have slowed down badly

[setishock]

I used to come here and over at vb com to offer what little I know helping. An alterior motive was to get some ideas about what I could do to my forum to make it do something different and unique. But sadly it looks like all the hubbub about some members of the VB staffers leaving has got a lot spooked to come in and ask questions.
I myself am concerned about whether or not VB is really going to make it past the end of the year. It appears that even being partnered with a capitol investment company that the investors are letting IB going on its merry way of self destruction. If I was pumping money in to a company my staff would be sitting on the board of directors and I'd be holding 51% of the stock. My ultimatum would be, Get your stuff together or be sending out your resumes.
It appears to me after working for a company that partnered with an investment firm, that this one didn't do that. That to me signals it took IB as a tax shelter or a blatant write off. Sad...
We don't need all the extra doodads they appear to have in store for users. Cut off the fat. Fix what is wrong. Then dazzle us with a product that works like it should have in the first place. Instead it appears to me the credo of IB has fallen to:

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bulls**t...