Originally Posted by
David88vert
RandomGuy - I like the changes.
To Others - IA is not going away. I have been on this site since close to the beginning, and have seen this discussion before. I remember the IS debacle, and the various sales of the name.
In the early days of IA, there weren't a lot of members, but all of them were non-jaded car enthusiasts. While quite a few of the original members are still on the site, and still post, most have gotten older, have more important priorities, and have less interest in doing the same things that they already did a decade ago. Add in the tomfoolery that they see younger people doing, and its easy for them to say that the site has gone downhill. In reality, a forum is just a location where people can post content. It's not the site that has gone downhill, its the perception of the content that is being posted. The perception is that it has gone downhill, leading to more negativity when posting. This is a spiral which feeds itself.
The solution is for older members to try to keep a positive mindset, and set the tone of the site for new members, while realizing that their own priorities have usually shifted to be a little less automotive-based than they were a decade ago.
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