If you're "mod" or "hip" or "trendy" you won't like it. But if you, like me" are stuck in the "good old days" you might find something you like.
[From the side panel] "I've tried being active on several (mostly political) forums and my comments were often characterized as being out of date. For instance when I talked of returning to the principals of the Founders I'd get comments like it wasn't 1776 anymore.
Hardhead that I am I felt I really was often right and my thoughts were very much in line with well established, relevant, and very valuable principals that have stood the test of time. Yes even long before 1776.
So, finally I said to myself "you really are an old fogie" (fogie: an extremely fussy, old-fashioned, or conservative person, esp in the phrase 'old fogie', so why not try to create a medium where I (and others like me) have a place where our thoughts and ideas wouldn't be rejected as "out of date". WRONG maybe but not out of date."