Are the forums on BiggerPockets getting worse and worse or is it just me?

[Jonathan Greene]

I find them almost unreadable now. Finding a good post to respond to takes me close to ten minutes. There is so much AI, reverse trolling, and one-line posts that the moderators can't keep up. And I know because I was a moderator for a couple of months, but I quit.

Being a moderator on the site is thankless. There are no benefits, no pay. Whenever you remove a post, you have a 10-20 percent chance that the poster will email you to complain. It's not fun, but it helps the site a lot. However, there aren't enough moderators to do the job against technology and spammers now. This is part of why the forums are pretty vapid, significantly more so than they used to be. When you give the benefit of the doubt to garbage posts, it creates a pile of trash, making it harder to find the collectibles.

The company's target audience is new investors. Old investors like me only invest in the subscription for pro; we don't buy courses or books (actually, I own probably 20 of their books) regularly. So, the focus on new investors creates allowable concessions in favor of new people, but that doesn't improve the forums. "We all had to start somewhere" is true, but the forums used to be more fun when people weren't as fragile as they are now. When you tell someone their strategy isn't brilliant, they melt into an offended state and fry themselves in their forum.

Are the forums here getting worse, or is it just me? Maybe I am just getting too old to wade through AI posts to try to help someone. I can't even look at the Facebook group because it is the forums x 10. I still want to help, but the time to find something interesting is getting too long for me.

Thoughts?

[Russell Brazil]

It's the same as it always has been. At every point in history of the 15+ years of the site I've noticed the old timers complaining that the site is the worst it's ever been. 

Obviously that feeling seems to extend to all people in all facets of life everywhere. The country is the worst it's ever been. My city is the worst it's ever been. Movies are the worst it's ever been. People always long for the days of yesteryear and idolize the past.