Hi, I'm one of those inactive people that has the badge thingy that marks those who have some idea what they're talking about.
This is one main reason why I don't post about how to play the video game anymore. Another, not skill based, reason that ties into Polka's post is people tend to not be very good at having active discussions. By that, I mean, 1) reading and comprehending what other people are discussing with an open mind and 2) actively framing their viewpoints with enough reasoning to make 1) as simple as possible. I'm not quite sure how to fix this since you see this happen everywhere, but I think that if people do 2) good enough, 1) will happen. You can kind of see it whenever SKD posts something. Sure, you get some people that just talk at him in response, but in general there is a discussion happening there. So I think you need to convince people who are capable of starting and maintaining good active discussions back into the community. About how to do that...shrug?
Also please never bring Netplay General back. Never forget the feet pictures.