I'd like to remind everyone that disagreements regarding a moderator's actions should be discussed with the respective moderator in a PM. Pointing fingers, "attacking" and "self-defense" are of no relevance and have no place in a public topic and are better kept to reports.
Let's get this topic back on track.
Since the Collaboration forum keeps being brought up as the central topic here... activity there may indeed
appear to have decreased if you compare it to, say, the old GMC. I remember the old forum (then named Team Requests) had activity, as in new topics, on an almost daily basis at some point. If you actually checked what became of those topics a while later, though, you'd often see what looked like a wasteland of unfinished and abandoned projects, with the odd one that was still going or even ended up in WIP and beyond at some point.
That's not because no such topics are being posted, though. The Collaboration forum is a moderator-approved forum now, so every topic that gets posted there needs to be previewed by forum staff, which is primarily my responsibility. The reality is that we still have an influx of topics comparable to the past, they just don't all actually end up going public. Here's a
quick informational graphic to illustrate this process.
The amount of such topics should have drastically decreased on the current GMC's version of this forum, as they are what led to the isolated death of the old Team Requests forum in the first place. I'd say the current Collaboration forum is much more alive than its previous incarnations, as the majority of topics that are approved are usually promising concepts, portfolios or job offers rather than revenue share ideas that get dropped after a week or two.
The same applies to spam - you guys pretty much never see any, but we still ban a handful of spam bots on a daily basis. I'd even say that in the spam department, the GMC is as alive as it has never been before.
... and with that said, this topic pretty much arrived at its final destination.