This place was great until the person who registered exactly after me arrived. Every member after that has done nothing more than bring down the internet real estate that this forum exists in.
BTW, the person who registered before me probably said the same exact thing.
I used to think it was this place that had changed so drastically. But I don't think so anymore. I think it is the market that has changed drastically.
Movie and TV hype have brought a "key-centric" focus like nothing I've ever seen before. Books get hot and then get flipped more times than a jailhouse mattress. Lots of new entrants into the market. Some collectors and some folks trying to cash in on the next collectible spike. This place attracts everyone, because it is a little epicenter of the high end (especially slabbed) market. There is real money and there real books on here all the time.
For the old guard, there is some battle fatigue to seeing the same stuff over and over, but that is natural.
There have been some great new members added in the last couple years, and even though it seems like they get drowned out by the specu-dinguses, they don't.
This is the new normal. At least until that Walking Dead bubble pops.