What happened?
I have noticed that alot of people have been doing the same generic things over and over again. SUPERSONIC'S LIFE RP! Darkdude4124's freebuild. battleguy357's TDM. Where did the creativity go? Everyone does the same old boring TDM with two forts and a hill or something seperating them. Using the same old weapons, the same old vehicles and the same thing every time. Freebuilds wind up filled with spam and pointless crap, nothing ever good. Life RP servers are filled with 11 year olds who just found out what a vagina is and now are desperate for internet love. Where did it all go? Nothing fun to do anymore. All I hear from people in my servers is "I'm leaving. Bye guys!" then five minutes later they come back and say "Nope, all server out there suck."
My Theory
Most of these servers are hosted on a dedi with no surveillance or are run by idiots who do whatever their idiot friends want them to do. (See that naruto topic for a description of what I mean.) The dedi winds of getting filled with spam from idiots due to the lack of activity with admins. The bad host winds up banning everyone that actually has a mind due to the fact that he doesn't agree with them.
What is left
There are still good servers out there like Tails' Challenge. I try to make my servers different such as my Cloudboat Wars and Floating island build. People say "well my server is original" just to try to advertise and get people to come.
Tl;Dr= Servers are doing the same old thing and nothing new.