Do any of these people actually fucking PLAY RPGs?
Most of the userbase there are really just fans - they're not there to create or to fix or have productive discussions which lead to better gaming or anything like that, but just to argue in a fannish way.
BNGs. Same as it ever was.
As S John Ross said about the GURPS mailing list, you could tell the difference between the questions asked because of something coming up in play, and the questions asked after just reading the books. Some things which seem like an issue when you're reading the rules actually aren't at the gaming table, and vice versa.
Bill and I talked about this a bit in the
livestream yesterday, but basically: for all the blather about the books, what really matters is what happens at the game table. And game tables at local clubs typically represent the demographics of the area. Game tables at people's homes represent the demographics of their own friendship groups. And those groups are usually quite open and friendly and have none of these dramas these guys talk about.
These are dramas you talk about when you don't have a game group.
It's someone said about rpg.net's Tangency: the only roleplaying those guys do is pretending to be gamers.