Without wanting to be contentious I felt I have no choice but to make some comments most of the old members here have stated. This site used to be a thriving mecca of comment and fruit related interraction, however now seems taken over by a few school kids and a couple of admins who monitor out any comment that they don't agree with (I would give this topic an hour before they remove it "because they can"). Many people from the early days have moved on admittedly (although I would argue that many of them have moved on because sites like this have been so dumbed down). A few people seem to rehash old layouts which were already superbly done and then people who have no idea how to search for the previous versions say how wonderful they are. There were very many layouts which were done badly or had poor resources at the time they are done - perhaps you could work on those instead?
My main concern though is that a membership site is run by a couple of trigger happy admins who only allow comment they like and agree with, what do you think? I know many people will feel they cannot agree or comment due to the nature of the "gang" mentallity in here but try and have the strength ;-)