I assume you are mainly talking about your topic here:
As I discussed here I am in the middle of cleaning up and reorganizing some things on the forums, one of them being a fairly large rework to the Dev Advice (formally project help) category. Your post getting locked had nothing to actually do with your post itself, but just part of the clean up as I am forcing all posts in those categories to use the post voting type to make it easier for others referencing the topics to find what responses where useful and what where more or less noise. Due to that I have locked most of the old topics in that category just to ensure there is no confusion why some are that type and others are not.
As to the activity side of things I think it depends on the context. A few things to keep in mind that influence it is:
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with bbw-chan is they are an older site then us and cater to a more generalized community so they likely have a much larger user base in general so by sheer numbers you have a better chance of finding one or more people with the information you want.
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A large chunk of our user base tends to be more experienced in writing and programing. While we do have some artists on the site WG is still not really well known in art circles (from my interactions) and 3d artists are even more rare so it can be much harder to find some one who can answer your question. This is even more apparent if you compare Dev Advice > Programming to Dev Advice > 3D Modeling for example.
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A large number of the users tend to hang out and interact in Project Ideas & Discussion, Projects, and Curated Projects so those areas tend to be more active in general. If you sort by views for example the most popular Projects post has ~1.4 million views but the most popular post in the Dev Advice section only has ~64.8 thousand.