Hi, 50crckt51, thanks for the message. I've been bad about interacting with people on the site and in the forums; there are a lot of reasons for this, but I'm actually not going to get into them here since I'm afraid they'll all sound like lame excuses and make things even worse instead of better. :) I'm going to change that from here on out.
I would love it if you'd stick around and post and contribute to the discussions. I think that's the best way for everyone (including me!) to help rebuild the forums. But if you have any other suggestions at all, I really want to hear them--get in touch with me either here or by e-mail (matthew_murray AT pcmag.com) and we'll talk about stuff.
Anyway, thanks again for writing!
--Matthew