I joined the rep forums in 4/07, mostly RWG1. Just a year and a half. But it seems longer because I've been buying reps for 2+ years.
Today's forums are old news for old dogs, but new news for noobs. It's new and refreshing for noobs. A discovery.
Remember being taken in by the fake review sites? No? Many are. The scammers like Bluef**ks, Go Replicas, et.al. How refreshing it is to land here after slogging through that quagmire.
I try to comment on review threads with real, meaningful comments, but most don't appreciate them. My kind of pictoral "reviews" seem to satisfy most. Just pictures with a few comments.
Things, and people, do change.
Still, noobs need a safe place to land, a place where they are safe from being ripped off.