Ban wipe.

[Agorith]

I came back at the last ban wipe and played for ages. Just stopped playing recently because the server's so dead it isn't even fun to play anymore. Needs repopulation ASAP.

So what if you did, you're part of a vast minority.
We keep initiating ban wipes every few years out of desperation and we can start asking ourselves what the point even is in having a staff team to begin with if we're gonna undo most of their work multiple times.

If you don't want the server to be dead, then start joining more often on lower player count days.
If everyone did that, there wouldn't be a dead server to complain about.
I did that for the relatively short time I was active again, along with some others, and it really helped out.