I think the problem is that in these forums, advice is given out for free. Whom would like to continually give out free, Valuable advice accumulated through years of experiences & $ spent, despite receiving some verbal attacks sometimes or the bottom line , without receiving any respect ? This scenario is seen in quite a few of forums I participate here in Hong Kong & China. & is particularly serious in forums where the moderators are not active in regulating the threads or not capable of regulating.
We all love this hobby - but not to the level of Agape.
In this regard, I have my high regard towards Ken of Aero. He is so knowledgeable & yet can remain quite impartial or controlled in response to attacks or -ve comments over him. I would have guessed he might have deep feeling about this or otherwise would not started this thread.
The problem is that these forums would recruit anyone, those in their 1st day of buying a mall jacket to those seasoned collectors with tens of years of experience. Someone had said it so good here, some members may not know what they are talking about a comment on others that they made. I think this is in sync with what Unclegrumpy had said earlier in this thread. There lacks a grading system the current system used is often by the no. of posts posted but not by years of experiences.
So, those with performance desire turns to arena where they can CONTROL the conversation, they be the host, like fb or others.