It appears to new members as though the forum was just recently created and no work has gone into making it "feel" like an arduino community more than just a yabb forum promotion.
Having more visually pleasing features as well as maybe like a project of the month that could be voted upon could greatly improve people's intentions about being serious about the board I believe.
I do agree with that mainly. I think that more mods would be brilliant in terms of all of this that could be done pretty quickly.
If people have the time and the knowledge then it should be easy. I think that it what a community like this one is all about 