Anthony,
It's not worse. It's not better. It's just different.
I’ve been around from the start. The site was often crude and the decorum questionable from day one. It comes with the medium.
The biggest difference back then was that people could read all the posts. This was once a small village and has simply grown into a large passionate community.
There were a lot more people from the golf industry originally, because most of us were invited by other members of the golf community. Chris Brands brought me to the site but I can’t remember the last time he posted. As the public found the site, most of the professionals left because it became too public or they were frustrated by the direct nature of the medium.
I still like it here, but I preferred the site when there weren’t as many threads to read. The participation rate was so much slower that you had weeks to read a thread from the front page rather than the hour it can take to go to page two today. Since everything was smaller and slower, you pretty much knew everyone on the site and the kibitzing was taken a little more light-heartedly.
I wouldn’t suggest anyone change anything. I think the site still works just as well as it did before. I’ve only just read Brian Philips getting to know you thread – I guess I’m too slow to keep up.
