This is from "The Addiction That is Meso" thread by @Blacken that I bumped last week. Everyone in there was/is very active posters here, there was without a doubt a stronger sense of community at that time. Guys were clocking serious time here ^^^ all in an effort to try to make this place better, and imo it was then. Things change I understand and people get busy with life, but when some one post wonder shows up and posts some dangerous shipping dates and then backtalks every member trying to steer him in the right direction I agree it is infuriating at times. I'm not saying anyone has more/less right to be here, I do feel how a member could be completely frustrated by lack of respect my some new members when they are putting this much ^^^ time and effort into our community.
Completely agree TEK. My knowledge of AAS was fairly limited when I joiIned but I read for several weeks before ever posting. I had 30 years of training under my belt at that time and started posting about that which I did have some knowledge on.
Fairly quickly I was able to figure out there were 15 to 20 guys who posted regularly and had a vast amount of knowledge on certain things that I didn't. Without exception when I pm'd any of them they were willing to share information and help any way they could.
A lot of those guys are either gone entirely or post infrequently now. Still plenty of knowledgeable guys around but it is harder for newer members to sort through all of the nonsense and figure out who they are.