This forum really has become a joke. I know of other bike touring forums which I'm more likely to visit and post on these days, that don't have the issues this one now has, namely:
--trolling
--repetitive and/or redundant threads
--rush to post by a tiny handful of members---grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation be damned
--repeated bumping by a tiny handful of members of their own threads, and other narcissistic behavior
--useless gun threads or sub-threads
--geographic monotony
--threads which have nothing to do with bike touring
The only thing which has improved that I can think of, is the reduction in cyberbegging threads.