With all of the real assholes gone, I might even repeal the no-freemail registration condition.
Yeah.. it was fun with someone around for the forum to gang up on, controversy makes things so much more fiery, not to mention I've talked to a few people online that said they hadn't registered for the forum because they couldn't use hotmail, or yahoo mail.
Particle, if you were to implement game-play updates.. I'm sure you'd see many oldbies (and new players) start to play on your server, and then once everyone is playing again you could put in that code that randomly makes the forum URL come up every once in a while.