My continuing issue with the new design

[Cal C.]

As illustrated by the near complete lack of response to this thread last week the new design has not been a hit.  Ten days and only two positive responses and those were from individuals deeply involved in the development of the new design.   NO one else except the original poster and two designers HAD A POSITIVE COMMENT, NO ONE.  Even if that thread now gets some positive responses the near total lack of response to this point gives a Loud and Clear message.

Please understand I'm a great admirer of @Joshua Dorkin for starting this site and working his tail off for years to keep it going.  There is no doubt this site has helped thousands of re investors including myself and I (used to?) love it. But...  

There are many things I don't like about the new design.  I can barely stand to be on the newest posts page because any time I move my cursor all kinds of unwanted things occur to include multiple pop-ups of people's mini-profiles, a menu bar at the top which basically blocks the whole page, jump to last post pop-ups, the box for each thread, I could go on, but the thing I dislike the most about the redesign is it (the newest post page) doesn't identify who started a thread.  

Let's face it the majority of people who come to bigger pockets are not real estate investors and never will be.  Yes, they are wannabes and I want them to be RE investors since I think RE investing is a fantastic wealth maker that many many people could succeed at. 

However, with the new design you can't tell if a thread was started by someone who has thousands and thousands of votes because of a deep knowledge of real estate investing or is an absolutely new to re investing two day wonder, meaning someone who posts a few times in a day or two and is never heard from again.  

Let's face it what is more valuable to someone's time, a thread started by @J Scott, @Brian Burke @Joel Owens, @Steve Babiak, or @Will Bernard or someone who is coming here for the first time?  Of course, newbie questions should be answered but do their threads really deserve equality with threads from posters who have  five thousand or more votes?