Create games:

Questionnaire games would work for this, like guess the anime. A random select of Otakus on a team for these games. Maybe make it weekly, and announce winners. it would be fun and a whole lot easier to meet people and start conversation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_creep Ryan's already stretched thin as it is with the site, so adding more shit on top of it to maintain is just going to make things worse.