No forum will be for everyone. If the goal is to have a wide variety of forums, so that every cyclist can find at least one or two forums that are appealing, then why change the nature of a forum that is so appealing to many into something that will no longer be so appealing to that large group of people, especially when changing it doesn't improve things for other people?
Cannot be repeated often enough to those who would move the geezers off to facebook for their own good. Especially when there is a grudge driving the situation.
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