Comment by renewiltord

That’s just community age. It starts out vibrant and then you get Eternal September and the resulting backlash causes all but the most crotchety to go elsewhere. I think maybe only metafilter has protected itself from this. Presumably the cost to play does the trick.

This is a class of problem where the community becomes navel gazing and spends most of its time litigating the rules. It was a classic thing to happen to old forums.