Mini-Rant: What has happened to our site?

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Originally Posted by motordavid

The "what oil to use" questions and the drive-by inane posts wear some of us out; esp. us old bastards that read this thing for a hobby...

I've never seen so many unlearned posts catered to as they are on this forum.

I use e39 forum on bimmerforums and m3forum.net. I can't even read this forum any more. It's like special ed over here where everyone is equal regardless how stupid they are.

Sometimes some harsh discipline is needed to keep the morale and general level of sophistication in a place like this. I think this thread has turned you all into fearful nanny's. baby sitting the ridiculous posters and spoonfeeding them answers that were given just 10 minutes before.

We're probably closing in on 100 duplicate well answered threads in the last couple months alone. What does that turn this place into? An unintelligent spam fest.

You know what happens when noobies get bashed for making duplicate posts? Over time something amazing happens. People start searching and post intelligent, original content to the forum. This improves the user experience for everyone.

So please, be yourselves here. yes you should obey the forum rules and not make unreasonable personal attacks but please, do what you have to do to preserve the forum and improve the user experience for everyone.