We're all guilty of doing something. I for one try and make note of people holding factions for the sake of being "1ic syndrome" and letting it die rather than passing it on to someone that could boost that factions activity and make it great again.
I'm rather lash at how I do things, I speak my mind and I'm not afraid to tell someone they're doing a bad job. Activity isn't everything but being active on the forum alone isn't enough for this game to carry on. It is exactly that a game and people need to start logging in just to enjoy the RP side of the fun forget about the arguments, bitterness, how invalued you feel as a member of the community. Log in, and log in as a police faction. Guaranteed someone is watching the player list for someone to log for a bit of fun vs pirate ext. Login for just some genuine role play, talk to each other, start gossip make something up create events build a war. People enjoy wars here (in-game obviously)
Why do we all intend to keep holding ourselves back when we can do so much better?
I stepped down from USI not because of the 13 days of activity, but because I wanted a new challenge. So I stepped up into IC| and pushing pressure on pirate groups with the new bounty board I feel is a good contribution to the server as they're far more pirate groups than there is lawfully and to push people towards creating a bounty hunter character and targeting pirates.
I do my thing, it might not be in the best way, but it's always in favour of Discovery moving forwards not backwards.