These are two fairly seasoned posters, and both think this forum is a sad place in the off-season. I wanted to take this premise and take a closer look at it, partly because I think this is a great topic to discuss and partly because I think they are wrong.
Ultimately, the activity at this forum ebbs and wanes during the off-season, with the summer doldrums setting in during the June and July months, which are clearly the slowest part of the off-season. Yet even during this period, there is still a fair amount of activity here, far far more than any other site out there.
Of course, activity alone does not determine whether a forum is a "happy" or a "sad" place. In recent weeks and months, we've had a ton of misplaced 'trade advice' threads, various threads by a troll and/or tool, and some other questionable activity, including the banning of Jloh without much cause or explanation and the above-mentioned "Freddog is a thief" thread, which has turned out to be a fairly defamatory posting by the OP, who has since disappeared.
I come here everyday as it's the only place that I know for off-season dynasty football discussion. Most other forums go dark between Week 17 and August (except for signs of life during free agency and the NFL Draft). Here, there is activity even in the middle of June!
I do regret the fact that the mods don't do more to patrol this place and keep things tidy. I also feel that various posters don't do enough to regulate things. If a troll is in our midst, don't post in his threads. And if someone is asking for trade advice, especially someone with 100s of posts to his name, give the guy some grief for posting in the from sub-forum. Don't humor the tool by giving him advice. That said, it shouldn't be up to posters to handle this. One active mod could move these threads and issue warnings. The same applies to some of the ad hominem crap that happens here ever so often.
Still, I don't think this subforum is a "sad" place. What's sad is those forums where there's no activity. Heck, we even have some sad sub-forums here. Just look into the College Player/Devy subforum.