Some reasons: The secrets have been less about fandom and more about the submitter's own personal issues with a tangential fandom connection to avoid the fail!bar. That is a hard thing to get excited by.
There is no all consuming fandom or fandom wank that everyone can get excited by.
IP logging on.
Secrets being text only rather than having a fandom picture or manip. Again, hard to work up a buzz.
People not feeling the love.
Case being a little trigger happy on the freeze button or delete thread option if we go off topic with sing-a-longs or stuff like that. I'm not talking about deleting the suicide encouragement or the cow pooping guy, but the more harmless stuff and even if an argument does get heated or controversial, that is no reason to kill the thread. Case needs to ease back on that or there is no point even starting a thread or conversation if it is just going to be killed. The IP logging doesn't help here.
Dog ate my laptop.
Secrets, when actually about a fandom and not the submitter, for niche fandoms that by their nature can only have limited appeal (not a bad thing, or a good thing, just a thing).
Re: Why has it be so slow lately here?
The secrets have been less about fandom and more about the submitter's own personal issues with a tangential fandom connection to avoid the fail!bar. That is a hard thing to get excited by.
There is no all consuming fandom or fandom wank that everyone can get excited by.
IP logging on.
Secrets being text only rather than having a fandom picture or manip. Again, hard to work up a buzz.
People not feeling the love.
Case being a little trigger happy on the freeze button or delete thread option if we go off topic with sing-a-longs or stuff like that. I'm not talking about deleting the suicide encouragement or the cow pooping guy, but the more harmless stuff and even if an argument does get heated or controversial, that is no reason to kill the thread. Case needs to ease back on that or there is no point even starting a thread or conversation if it is just going to be killed. The IP logging doesn't help here.
Dog ate my laptop.
Secrets, when actually about a fandom and not the submitter, for niche fandoms that by their nature can only have limited appeal (not a bad thing, or a good thing, just a thing).
Some other stuff.