Then why bother coming here if it's all been done and everybody is so inept or lazy?
You ask an excellent question that SBO should ask.
I agree that there are some posters here that should sit out most of the posts if they have no experience with the subject or offer up hollow suggestions. I both lol'd at kings comment, and felt bad for Will.
If this forum was a technical experts only site it would be a one stop shop with very little reason to click on recent posts to see whats going on. Youd look for a couple days for your specific issue then never come here again. There would be a couple good experts worth any price and a couple experts that give sketchy half ass advice or have no skills for teaching. They would piss off the one off poster and the site is dead.
Add crowd sourcing and now you mix awesome tips, bizarre tips, moronic tips, and white noise.
But now that there are more voices, it becomes interesting to hear them. Now you have a following.
I keep coming back hoping Will shows us more wood cuttings, jackdaw uploads sailing videos, or briand throws us another puzzle. I cant get enough of judy's tri.
Kings gambit is complaing about white noise but im not seeing how his labor day sails and opinions on the addrift movie are all that technical or solve any problem.
Why come back? Becuase any thing is better than work or headines when we cant be sailing.