I was thinking the same thing over the last few days. In perusing the Fiction Section, I noticed something that I found troubling. It seems as though very few people posting fiction here participate in the forums these days. I recall this forum being the place where the authors would come, announce the new works that had submitted, and wait for the critiquing to be unleashed. It doesn't seem to be that way anymore and here's my two cents on WHY, gil:
The recent crop of authors on this site seem to me to be hyper-sensitive and unable to take criticism of any sort. Unless every post is a 'standing ovation', it has typically degraded into a flame war that needed to be shutdown and locked.
Quite frankly, I'd love to see this forum revived, but I don't know how it will happen. There is so much shameless promotion going on that asking for critiques on your work posted here seems much the same, not like it used to be. Unless the writers on site band back together like in the old days, the fiction forum will remain as it is.
Pity.
Every great once-in-awhile it seems that someone like you, myself, or rightwing will come back and try to 'rally the troops', but it always falls apart rather quickly. 
If you have a solution, gil, I'd love to hear it...
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