I left THR between the death of the Roundtable and the Anschluss. One can only take so much "ALL GUNZ !!! ALL THE TIME !!" and the Derp to Information level was starting to build. I had pretty much abandon THR when Derek kicked over the dominoes.*
And it's interesting that the issue of obtaining new members came up, as that was something I brought up in the mod fora a couple months back. Up until the Anschluss, we used to get a steady influx of new members, most for the reasons that many here mentioned as their reason for joining. Very few accidentally stumble in here. (some have found us by googling themselves, but most by googling a topic of discussion.)
Anyway, we don't have that source of new members. (Neither GRM or THR are even half of what the original was, and when TFL restarted that also took a lot of the lifeblood back from THR.)
So ideas on what to do. I like Terry's idea of tags, but given thread drift around we'd constantly be updating them:
tags: #cornbread, #shoes, #dogfood, #elves, #faa, #gasoline, #transgender