Didn't you advertise before without success? If not, why did you not?
What makes you think that a lurker will be more interested in a forum which has had a two-year lapse of inactivity and started a week a go, versus another, that has recent topics, and that has been active for the past two years?
Seeing as there are tons of Pokemon websites, how do you plan to attract people in a forum where the main focus is the Thread of Topiclessness.
I don't like that we're taking so much energy to divide ourselves at the exact moment where we ought to be working together to build interesting X and Y news releases and activity.
You make good points here. The 2 year gap does kind of freak me out a little on there.