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Originally Posted by Garick
I agree that some posters are close-minded, but I think y'all are remembering a "golden age" when you learned a lot from the forums not because the forums have gotten lots worse, but because you learned all that stuff long ago and it is now basic and uninteresting to you.
I agree that we have less players with an online background now, so we have less good math-based discussions, but otherwise i think this forum is about the same. It is still an entry-level forum with a few very experienced posters who explain things well, and a lot of less experienced and/or not good at explaining/debating posters.
+1
Over the years, there have some other subtle changes. The forum as a whole is less busy than it was during the poker boom. While we are still far busier than when the forum opened (I could literally read every post made each day in about 15 minutes), it is far less busy than at the peak when threads that didn't have a post in the last 8 hours would drop off the front page. As a consequence, I'm far less prone to moving and closing threads that ideally would be in another forum. Also, I've allowed more general and hypothetical question threads in the forum than I would have 5 years ago.
I think having a fresh look at the older COTM's is a good idea. My one ask is that the new one be at least as good as the old one. For the most part, the information given 10 years ago is still good today for our level of posters. In a forum where very few posters break out an equity calculator when answering a question (what do you mean, range?), I'd avoid the COTM which is based on "this works for me, so it should work for you."