Some interesting stats for the first few days in September - threads started (excluding this one)
  1. Gay Thailand - 7 new threads (just over one per day on average)
  2. Gay World - 1 new thread
  3. Everything Else - 6 new threads (one per day on average)

Starters:
Bert, gaydenmark, riverdee, Maxwell, Dimsumbear, cdnmatt, scottish-guy (1 thread each); arsenal (2 threads); frequent (5 threads)

I'll leave the qualitative assessment to others as it's arguably a subjective one.

Among the noticeable absentees - posters who persist in claiming the Board is moribund or that people are fearful of posting because of the "atmosphere". A clinical triage of the tone of some of their posts I'll also leave to others. Were I Moses I'd be pretty happy at the diverse level of activity here