Contributors on GCA are not so much teaching the teachers, whether they be developer's like the Bakst's or Keiser's of the world nor their architects like C&C or Doak. They are PARTICIPATING in an ongoing discussion of ideas, and any wise man will tell you - if they are paying attention - one learns from that process, no matter how small the point of learning may be. Guys like the above are successful and intelligent because they do discuss, pay attention to their market, clients, and those who are passionate about these issues. They know they are just part of a community of people that share interests. If all that didn't matter, then burn the books, delete the discussion, and go forth in a uninformed state of being, howling invectives at the moon.
I really do think that Keiser's complex received a boost, a hightened or more prompt recognition due to all the buzz on GCA. I would hope he, Doak, and others would recognise that GCA has been a launch pad for their endeavors. Not an entity that they would have depended on for success, but one they could count on for recognition in a specific targetted sector or the market that helped in some manner more so than if GCA did not exist at all.
How soon would Cape Kidnappers, Barnbougle, Friars Head, St Andrews Beach, Kingsley Club, Black Mesa and many others have come to your attention had there been no GCA. After you destroy GCA, you can go after the magazines and writers and call them irrelavant too.
Why do you think these people I named as Archies, Supers, construction personnel, developers, writers, historians and such bother to come on GCA, if not to learn 'SOMETHING"? Do you think they just come on here to laugh at a bunch of old white men typing away in their pajamas? Is that about it for you John? Do I amuuuuse you? (said like Joe Pesci) What color are your pajamas?