It's been coming for some time, and anyone who has been a member for more than a few months has seen it. If you don't or haven't seen it.......look at thread title alone in the past year compared to the years prior. If you still don't see it..........eye doctor.......now.
Derp has hit PF.com like Katrina hit New Orleans, along with a healthy dose of full retard tossed in for good measure.
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Still, it was once a good place to share information with people, and get quality information in return. Now the signal to noise ratio has gotten so high, it is no longer worth the effort to sort the wheat from the chaff. I took a break for several months, hoping it was just me being grouchy and old. But since I started lurking again over the past several weeks, ultmately posting pet pictures, and in topics I have vast, detailed, and vetted experience in........I realized that not only am I grouchy and old, but the quality of the product/information sharing that was started years ago has declined, and it is apparent that incorrect, inaccurate, or flat out retarded information has become the standard, along with people completely and grossly unqualified to speak on topics, self-annointed as experts, talking out of their asses is the new normal.
To the new shooter looking for information, they don't know the difference between someone who does, and someone who obviously does not know WTF they are talking about.
Bound to happen? Yup. Completely avoidable? No. But it doesn't make it any less frustrating or sad when it happens.
Still, recent topics and discussions on the board have reminded me why I left internet forums in the first place, why I initially decline participating in this one, and why continued participation here is like the meme below: