I agree with a lot of what Monkey said.  When I first came to RoV, the place had a  really chilled atmosphere. Not as insane as mygnr, and not as hardline or nutswinging as htgth.  That's what appealed to me, so it'd be good to somehow get back to that again.
 
I lurked for ages, but there was so much good content back then, fuelled by speculation, mystery, etc that by the time I read a whole thread, my time was up and I usually had to go do something else.  I'm not a great poster anyway, I don't like getting in spats, find it hard to get my point across etc....but thats my issue, not the point here.

My point is, that things seemed to get a bit skewed the last couple of years, and then pretty tense in the past 6 months. Quite a drama. The general state of GnR is, I think, to blame, as there is no news, none of any real value anyway, and no mystery to speculate on any more. But still, It would be great to somehow get back to that chilled atmosphere again.

I would agree with lumping all the GnR sub forums into one. Trimming it down may garner more activity, as you wouldnt need to flip through a few sections to see whats new.  I would also keep membership open to new people, there's few people posting now, so new contributors would be good. 

Maybe trim down some of the other sub forums too, I dont get into those too often, because of the lack of time, but maybe that could be done to freshen things up too.

Anyways, glad to see you back. I've missed it.