It gets good traffic. The problem is there are too much high-school level antics and this means you can get better discussions elsewhere. I don't have much experience with the mods except for cochrane locking one of my threads when I tried to promote the OPRainfall poll in the relevant subsections (VC, Yakuza, etc.). I rather it exist if only for the fact that sometimes SEGA people will note things you say. Or even rare opportunities showing up like
Sam Mullen answering several questions over on the Project DIVA section, and Aaron Webber asking people about which conventions he visits (which, he does similar sorts of things every so often on Twitter too, but perhaps this medium was more conducive to what he wanted or is more readable.) Of course, there was also the time period where S0L haunted the place for SASRT.