Well its how I feel about the situation. If you look back at who was around when this site was founded you will see most got burned out or had other issues and left. They started the site, contributed mostly on topic, and when they had nothing more to add they went on with life. When I google for something I just snagged I tend to hit posts from the original site, which is very usefull. Sometimes I even hit one of my very old posts, funny how I have changed over the last few years. These forums are an archive of knowledge, they should not be full of water cooler talk.

Too many people joined here to talk about things other then what the site was made for, and tend to flood the forums with offtopic instead of ontopic.

I collect more then just 68K/ppc macs, I tend to talk about them in IRC or post to the correct forums for that hardware. I also get into military history, should I start threads up about that here too? The issue is do you respect what the forum is meant for and post acordingly or do you decide to take a forum hostage and drag it into whatever you are into at that moment.

Most of the offtopic should be in a personal blog, you can easily link your blog in the SIG you use here. If people like your posts they will eventually check out your blog as well.

There are forums I used to post in that I rarely if ever post in anymore (but do read once in a while), people change and move on.