I see what you see, and I haven’t been around nearly as long. Since it was Blez’ intention (I believe) to create a “bar atmosphere”, you are surely going to get all different types of folks here.

AN is not exactly broken, so I’m not sure if fixing is necessary, but a little fine-tuning can’t hurt. For example, I still think that only the front-page writers should break the latest news, that posts sit in the rec section way too long, and that some “recommended” posts are downright silly (like SportySpice telling everyone to pay up for Korach’s foundation).

But back to your point (sort of). I think that the more creative, knowledgebale types have become turned off by the random (being kind) posts that appear here. Now I am no one to suggest that one post is “better” than another. And surely everyone here has a right to post (it is also our right to read or not read them). But maybe AN needs to be broken off in tiers like someone’s ideal Hall-of-Fame (I am now confused if that was indeed monkeyball or Bill Simmons), so you have hard-core discussions in one area, your teary-eyed nostalgic tpyes in another, your groupies in another, and so on. Kind of like a real bar.

And every once in a while- threads and DLD’s- we all mingle and if it’s really crazy, some karaoke might even take place.