I can see where your coming from and agree to a degree.

Where I disagree is the posting of articles. It's necessary and appropriate to the site to keep up to date. Not to mention most of those articles are written by opinionated experts, like Adrian Humphreys, who offers some of that street level insight your looking for.

Where I agree though is that there seems to have been a mass exodus of the posters who brought a certain insight/perspective and educated information. They still come and go but I think in the past month or so they've lost interest do to the overwhelming childish posts from certain members. And I don't mean to insult these members, but they are definitely talking with knowledge gained from Goodfellas and the Godfather and maybe reading a few chapters of Donnie Brasco at their High School's library.

Overall I understand what your saying