14 hours ago: I figured I might as well chime in.

First off, nicely written ClarissaRules - you've spawned intelligent comments for a variety of members! (That's not an easy feat...)

I just want to give my two cents concerning #2 - ownership of spots/clubs. When we built Fanpop, we specifically downplayed the role of the spot/club creator. There are very few permissions that the club creator has that normal members do not have. We had to give them the ability to make banners, icons, and provide a description for the club. Up to a certain point they can change these, but if the club becomes popular they aren't allowed to anymore because the club really belongs to all the members of the club. It not necessary for the club creator to populate the spot with content or keep being active in it - the club just sits there and waits until someone (or more likely a group of people) who has a passion for the topic show up and build it up more. Since we don't tell anyone who created the spot, you pretty much have to guess (you can use the oldest content trick, but which content type was older if they all say 6 months ago?) or the club creator has to go around telling everyone they made it (and some creators love doing that). In the end, the club should be built up cooperatively and everyone benefits. If critical mass isn't reached, then over time more people join (add one or two things here and there) until six months, a year, or even two years later enough people have subscribed that stuff starts happening. I'd like to move people away from thinking themselves as club owners and more as club contributors - who cares if the club creator isn't a contributor when everyone can pick up the mantle of ownership and build the club into a worth while place to visit / hang out.

There's a glimpse into some of my idealism.

15 hours ago: I mostly just read articles that show up in my updates, but sometimes I find new ones via the featured article module on the front page.

1 day ago: I'm definitely happy! We're working on the image uploads now...

3 days ago: We fixed the problem where germany123 wasn't seeing the setting options.

4 days ago: Click on Fanpop Chat from on the front page.

4 days ago: I'm just commenting so your updates will be... well, updated.

4 days ago: Sorry, I broke "my updates" on Thursday (7/17).

On the plus side, I'm rolling out the new version of "my updates" right now. It should be faster and better.

12 days ago: Besides Fanpop, my biggest site is Cooking For Engineers.

23 days ago: Rare? I do it about 20-30% of the time I play. The rest of the time is usually spent with 3-4 expeditions.

27 days ago: All too easy... :)

About three years ago I wrote an article listing and describing pasta shapes for 92 (!) different pasta names. I never published the article on Cooking For Engineers because I felt like I needed photographs to go along with the names and never could get more than 1/3 of the pictures needed.