I remember my first time coming and role-playing on this game. This was my first RPG ever. I was horrid and never knew how to role-play so I always had to follow big groups, and watch them rp to understand how until I could take a whack at it myself. As for the role-play section on the forums I don't know. I know it was always highly active as well, but there is a possibility that some people might be too lazy now to post something up there. but we never know the real answer to that. ^^
I used to just do "- insert text here -" type of roleplaying, and I still do with certain people, but now I've improved and can roleplay up to a few paragraphs. Feralheart definitely taught me how to roleplay better.
I dunno what happened to the forum roleplaying section. I used to be pretty active there, but then it sorta slowed down and I just am bad at responding with a paragraph of text to a roleplay every day so I stopped running towards every roleplay that came up. Plus I am a horrible roleplayer compared to a lot of the other forum roleplayers xD