Originally Posted by 12clicks

A maturing business always squeezes out the weak and the dumb. Those of us still doing well can't be bothered spending much time chatting to a bunch of failures and part timers.
You're ideas about this business are wrong and we know it. We also know that if you challenge the bottom rung mentality of the group, you get every troll who's registered attacking you.
There's nothing unique going on here, the dumb are just being squeezed out.

Originally Posted by Barefootsies

There are a lot of people in this industry who still read GFY on a daily basis, but just choose not to post anymore because of the trolls and bullshit. I've heard this from people directly at conferences. Especially program/business owners just do not have the time, patience, interest to deal with the negativity.

They admit they still check in daily to keep up on the happenings, just no longer post.