I know work and life come first and I'm the last person to give anyone grief about letting trivialities like earning a living interfere with MB contributions, but we have a narrow window of opportunity here. After four years of NOTHING from WoT, then one book, then a two year drought and the author dying, we're finally on pace to see one very good volume a year until the series is done. In about eighteen months. That's maybe two years worth of WoT fandom at a fever pitch that may never have been higher.

IMHO, if RAFO's to be a serious SF/Fantasy site we cannot afford to miss that boat. It doesn't even matter how you or I or anyone here feels about the series: How can anyone in the SF/Fantasy community take us seriously if we largely ignore the end of a two decade epic like that? I don't much care for Martin, but when ASoIaF finally comes to a close I expect every fantasy site on the net to be all over it simply because of the hundreds of thousands of people who DO like it.

Which also means it's a golden opportunity at the perfect time to attract the people who will be the mainstays of the site in years to come. There really aren't enough regulars now, but the "regularity" with which each of us finds ourselves with too much work or too many kids or too much studying to spend hours a day here is only going to continue. There's a reason my sig reads like it does; I've always liked newbs because I've never really stopped feeling like one, but the big picture is that if we don't get new high quality members one of these days the Last Wotmaniac is going to login and find a ghost town.