> People reminisce of those rosy times where only a few select highly educated people were online but this is not going to be the case ever again. It doesn’t n

> People reminisce of those rosy times where only a few select highly educated people were online but this is not going to be the case ever again. It doesn’t need to be. Forums can just be unfriendly to people who don’t meet the standards for discussion. They can do this overtly, through moderation that shoves out low value contributors, or more subtly through design choices and cultural factors that discourage low tier posting.