Does anyone else find many of these posts banal?

No you are not alone. Sadly I have to agree with most of what you say but I'm afraid it has all been said before, maybe on a monthly basis but nothng seems to change, there is no one listening. You can't really blame the forum's membership for lack of self moderation because they appear to have no influence on the owners. We have endlessly requested proper moderation and on the one occasion that they actually invited people to show an interest in being one I wrote in. Apart from a couple of, 'hang in there, we'll be right back' e-mails I've heard nothing and it's obviously been dropped.

There are still, on rare occasions, threads that are interesting and useful and I stay for those but its becoming harder to justify. The trouble is where else do you go. I have joined other sites which operate on a more rarified level but the arrogance and rudeness are still there waiting for the right underdog to try them out on. The only really friendly sites I have been to unfortunately seem to invoke God more than I want in a photographic discussion and they are allways praying for each other etc.

Could we just go back 10 years?