This board used to be a hobbyist's board with a hearty exchange of information. Now it looks like a wasteland provider board. What happened to the mods? How disappointing!

That means everyone is allowed to post including you.  
Where were you a couple years back ?
 Assigned board moderators have been gone for quite sometime now

The loss of the board mods like Ben, Fuzzy and Apollo has fundamentally change this board. Like some of my favorite girls that have retired, those days are gone and are missed.

This board was not so pathetic and had value. In it's current state it is almost worthles

Thank you. That thread explains a lot. It isn't any wonder why this board has fallen from grace

I was asking about community leaders not some digital button pushers in another country. My main question was answered below, but thank you for illustrating another poin

... great! The Minnesota Board is already one of the liveliest and most fun of the TER boards, visited regularly by visitors, regulars, newbies, lurkers and others from around the country. It goes in phases, as you know, and I think it's in a pretty good phase right now. I don't think we even have an official board troll at the present. There have been times when this board was a wasteland of mainly cranky hobbyists who drove providers away from the discussion and made it an unwelcoming place for them. That still happens now but not quite as much. Some guys prefer sausage fests, I guess. As you've noticed, board posts by providers garner many more 'reads' than those of hobbyists and I think this represents that the reason most of us come here is for the fun of interacting with both hobbyists and providers. Some only want to talk about the ladies and not with the ladies. Others prefer to talk with them and about them. That's the camp I fall into. I wish we had even more Provider participation on this board.  

One man cannot resurrect an entire board. I am a financial consultant not a miracle worker. You have been here long enough to understand my post. Lively does not equate to valu

That you don't want to contribute, and just wants to complain. I'm going to guess, that if something bad
happens in your life, your going to blame your parents, brother, pastor, etc.

You have done your share of complaining but you add good intel.
No I am blaming my family, that's silly and my post was serious

My posts informative in nature.  I've done the leg work and reported back to the forum of my finding, and saved a lot of people time and $$$.
 

What I miss is when you gentlemen would mention new talent and had GOOD experiences to share .  
Now it's just SSDD week after week including shill Friday .  
Yawn...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXdViWVgHq4

Bjourn..