I keep coming back here because [believe it or not] this place seems like the most normal web forum out there. At least "normal" for me.
I've been visiting other, guitar-related websites for many years. But a little seems to go a long ways on most of those (except Rig-Talk... because it's owned/run by a former marine and he's a good guy) because most of those guys remind me of that hippie teacher on Beavis and Butthead. Such a bunch of pussies who can't handle ANY disagreement or ideas outside the local herd. I got an "incident" from a mod the other day at The Acoustic Guitar Forum for telling a poster "your ignorance is showing" when he came into my thread and completely trashed it with his stupidity. If you can't take it, you shouldn't dish it out. I've been here for almost TEN years and never gotten a warning, account lock, etc.
I find that these little isolated flocks out there just can't handle anyone from outside of their mentality. You can't bring up ANYTHING remotely related to politics or religion. They're such a bunch of babies that they can't handle ADULTS discussing ADULT issues. So you're stuck rehashing the same few topics and constantly "playing with each other's junk". They make Arf GD look pretty reasonable.