While I agree with what most of you said, this is not the place to tell these people what to do. They are coming here for help so if youre not interested in helping don't reply.
We all started making mods that ended up failing, if you are just starting out you can't expect to go out there and build a mod that everybody loves.
I remember when I co-leaded my old HL mod Target:Acquired back in like 1999. The storyline was pretty unique, but all of us were total noobs and we couldn't get a team together so it ended up failing. It's normal. And to many of you it might sound like a surprise that working on a mod that fails is actually very rewarding in the sense that you learn a lot from the mistakes you made.
So, back to my main point... if you dont want to join a mod that is advertised here don't reply simply to tell the person that he shouldn't be making this mod and that it sounds boring and is going to die. It's not necessary.