I like your ideas, but I have noticed one other little problem - many of the old regulars either seem to have left or have become much more infrequent in posting. No matter how much you improve the section, it'll likely crash and burn without active participants leading me to think perhaps we need to entice some of those members back somehow OR find a way to get some new intellectual types in somehow.

A similar thing seems to happen with most of the attempted resurrections of RP sections...