ok, see, here's the thing.
If we want to be taken seriously, and I think we do, because being taken seriously means more free stuff, because the people who've already sent it will send again, and the people who don't yet, even if they're bigger, will say, "hey, this is a legit place." and want the exposure. Being taken seriously means getting more stuff, and getting that stuff more dependably.
This means several things. If we want to be taken seriously, we need to have dependable content, a professional looking site, and enthusiastic (as well as numerous) reader base.
1) Dependable content:
We need to be able to count on a certain number of new articles/reviews a week. I'd suggest three. This means that if Fell is out of town, someone needs to be able to post a submitted article. Now, yeah, maybe it sounds like power grabbing, but I spend more time here than most anyone. If you count coding time, SPriggan and Tage might beat me, but I read nearly all the articles now, and my post count has grown to third place (and closing fast on 2nd and 1st) since I started participating something like 6 months ago. So, that, combined with my reasons for caring that come later, and the spare time I have, make me say that I'd be happy to be backup content administrator. I won't be surprised if we get other interested parties.
The second thing we need for "dependable" is quality articles. Something I'm guilty of as much as anyone else, but seriously, someone should be editing these things. We should both proofread and suggest where the writing needs some work. Now, I'm not talking about rejecting articles or doing wholesale rewrites, especially when the problem is just that we disagree with what's being said, but I am suggesting that when a review doesn't do a good enough job (case in point, my recent Nobilis review -- which, incidentally has been updated, if you want to read it again) that the author should be told what he needs to do. This request would optimally be made within 72 hours of the article's submission, just to make it easy to keep additions frequent.
Third, it'd be nice if we got a few more articles besides reviews. We've had a couple "strategy" guides, and the Rifts article about what to get was really good, but we don't see them very often. I think we should get anecdotes, rules conversions, free games, maybe even theory or tips. New ORP's could even be advertised for a week on the main page, which would get some attention from lurkers to our forum, which I'll get into in part three.
Development in the areas of books and movies would be nice.