Mini-Rant: What has happened to our site?

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I think you are all missing an important point.

This website will change no matter how you try to delay it. It is simply a matter of economics.

When this site was new, so was the X5. And new means expensive. And expensive generally means older people own it.

The upshot of the above is that in general - when the site was newer - you would not have many people who are interested in "modding", "Ghetto-Blasting", "Road Racing", and many of the other things that go along with a older owner class.

But now, the car, and the site IS older, and with that comes vehicles that are older and cheeper and therefore more accessible to the younger crowd; and with that comes not only the topics that are irritating to older members, but also the repeated questions that are one of the hallmarks of the younger crowd - they don't see the need (as do older folks) to search when it is just as easy to ask the question and get an instant answer. I'm not sure I blame them. Lately, when I read the same questions being asked over and over, I just ignore them. I know someone will politely tell them to search, someone will rudely tell them to search, and someone will answer the question.

I think that when a site is full of all the same poeple as this site probably was long ago (older, more affluent, more likely white and republican) you will more likely have similar views and there won't be too much strife. But as time passes and the demographics of the owners change - and the politics of the owners change, you will have more conflicting opinions.

It's just a matter of economics and time.