Was it something I said?
I'm still trying to figure out what's going on.
Tom Stormcrowe indicated we have been too rough with some new posters and need more adult supervision. Another moderator said off topic posts should be moved to other forums where they'd get more readership and promptly moved the "Wheat and fat" thread to Foo where the only additional attention it got was about it's being moved.
Was it something I said?
I'm quite open about my enjoyment in certain off topic discussions. I suppose that I'm guilty of making the occasional quip about other posters but I filter most of that stuff out before hitting the submit button.
Honestly, if I have any question about bicycling or equipment or nutrition or health or just life in general, I'm going to ask it here. I'm not really interested in what some 20 or 30 something racer, however capable, has to say about what or how I should ride. Their experience isn't relevant to me. I really like the pub-like atmosphere in which a core group of posters can be relied on to provide input on most topics. Whenever I consider the answers I get to a question, I also consider the answerer. Certain posters haven established themselves to me over the years and I value their answers much more highly than many others. To me that's a valuable service and there aren't any short cuts to obtaining it. Knowing the poster is as important as whatever information they provide.
I'm thinking that there is an appropriate forum for pretty much any conceivable bicycling topic. Yet, many posters continue to come here. It's not too hard to find posters who are under 50 who ask permission to join the group. Why do you suppose that is? What makes 50+ unique? Until you can come up with an answer to that question I think you are making a serious error by moving somebody's question to another forum. There's a reason why they choose to ask it here rather than in one of the other forums and I think that you should honor that.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." I suspect that almost everybody over 50 has had the experience of tweaking something that wasn't broken and, in the process, either made it worse or actually destroyed it. I hope that isn't happening here.