Chris,
I completey agree with you about making the forum more active... Let it be newbies. They are all people and I can bet that some of them will become real great online marketers and also JV partners. So, my advice (as told in another thread) would be to give a chance to newbies to participate. A lot of this forum discussions/questions requires huge knowledge base about whole JV industry, so a lot of new members who join just cannot participate, because they don't know what to do here. So since they cannot post their JV offers, they abandon this forum and in most cases never come back. So I suggest to make some kind of a more general section for discussions, this way more people could participate and the word would spread out about this forum much faster.

Egidijus