Referring to the post about the site dying there was some input on how to maybe help. I think that one of the areas that most new members do not post is some of the wording and the misunderstanding on how to work this site. I know that over and over again folks are told to read the FAQs. But maybe we should look at the words used now for instance here is what you see when you hit the add content button:

 "blog entry

A blog is a regularly updated journal or diary made up of individual posts shown in reversed chronological order. A blog is tightly coupled to the author so each user will have his 'own' blog."

For me as a newbie I would think "Oh my god I got to start a blog just to ask a simple question, and then I have to update it regularly."

Very intimidating. First off who really wants a journal or a diary? No one has really been using it in that sense here. So this is my suggestion on what might make it more friendly.

"Blog entry

Use this entry to ask questions or to summit your ideas or to showcase your metal art work."

Now another item that kind of gets in the way of things is that when you post an image it shows up at two locations.

 Right now if you submit an image and do not post to any galleries the image does not go to the galleries, which I think is great.  Now if it could be changed that if you do not post to a gallery it does not show up in the "Recent Image" section.

The reason on this thinking is that if I want to enter some images of lets say a procedure, the images can only be seen if I use a blog entry for adding the content.

Next to the gallery tag put something saying "use the gallery bottom to add the image to a gallery, by not choosing a gallery you image will only be used in a blog or image entry.