The reason why I said to check with Tora is because he's the guy that's currently trying to do something for the server with his monthly tournaments so I figured he would be a good person to check in with.
Besides talking with him about his project, I've updated the icons for all his tournament winners, and I also had the idea of changing the banner in the lobby to advertise his tournaments. I created a banner and got it into right archaic format so it could be used and Mousetopher installed it. I also then played in the tourney and am signed up for the doubles tourney currently. That all just seems to speak to me being engaged, imo, which is the opposite of what you've been saying here.
What I would recommend for you, tk, if you want to greet and help newbies or whatever, get an [AS] clan tag and help train and recruit players to your clan. The tag is a good carrot to dangle in front of them too to get them going.