Quite honestly, as a PC supporter for almost seven years (donated a little after I joined, and tried to donate a little during my time here), I'd say just close the damn thing.
For YEARS and YEARS everyone here has tried to give life to this section. I remember Nica tried to make events exclusively for us supporters. I remember myself and other peeps helped me out gather people to join our exclusive signature collabs, and I was actually planning to host one now that I actually have some free time. I remember those fun conversations in all the threads, especially our own DCC. The VIP forum was like a secret club, I guess...a "home away from the hustle and bustle". I kinda met most of my best friends here.
Keep performing CPR on this section and it's just not gonna work anymore. Most of us pretty much have moved on now, especially to the Treehouse. The VIP section is nothing but a Treehouse for supporters. I was pretty happy that the higher staff opened the section for EVERY supporter (people who donated over $15 (aka gold tier)) can actually join the section, and that was something I had suggested in the past, because I felt bad that not all supporters were getting the same treatment as we higher-donated supporters did.
What I would like to suggest, at least...is to keep this section open until June. We're barely in January, so we have time to come up with some events, thread ideas, and other stuff that gives members a chance to run. Like for example, I'm hoping to restart a collab again, and I want to get that squared away by this Friday. I also have some thread ideas that might have that "vip" touch, and it keeps the "vip exclusivity" from the Treehouse itself.
I've been reading and following this thread for a while now, and I finally have the chance to respond. tl;dr, give it at least half a year and give people a chance to shine before we finally burn it with a flamethrower.
