A hole-in one-there Kenny I think. The entertaining and informative Duritz has either been recently put out to pasture or left to join a long line of past forumites that have also left from boredom, or been barred. I've fairly much stopped writing here as have most forum members I notice. The problem here now is that this section of the forum is not really needed. The many comps. and tipsters on the other section [it's really grown] is what clicks over the forum's 'visit counters' that attract and keep advertising and probably determines advertising price too.

Huge numbers of non-member punters visit the tipping and comp. page for tips and soon recognize who is good at tipping winners and who isn't. It's the visit capital of the forum but was not always so. That's all well and good for management as they got to eat, The downside is that where opinion and ideas are mostly expressed and shared is here, in this section and it is being 'tailored' to look good and to edit out any comments advertisers might not like and even helpful web addresses for punters are being deleted so advertisers can't point and say; "look, they are being advertised for free and I'm paying"!

Basically we are now irrelevant and this section only totters along and originality, characters, humor, innuendo, heated discussion and anything else that might be half interesting is being slowly strangled unintentionally. Not to put too fine a point on it, this forum has become 'bland". Natural attrition is at work from the [natural] action of management, not the deliberate design of management. It's the end result of commercialism everywhere. It becomes dumbed down and squeaky clean.
This post or even the whole thread might go too [it's bad advertising, but blandness can't be hidden] as will any punters here who knock the new order too loudly or often. Slowly the old guard will all just disappear [voluntarily or with a push] and any interesting new members probably won't hang around for long either. The good thing about the internet is that new and interesting pasture is never more than a couple of mouse clicks away :-)

JOKE:
During the depression an old bloke on the road knocks on a farmhouse front door. When the misses of the house opens the door the old bloke gets down on his knees and starts munching on the grass and says: 'Things are ********** missus, really **********, I'm starving'. the missus tells him [in no uncertain terms]: 'go around the back, the grass is longer!".

Cheers.