Fanoftheblackrifle,
Being a regular on Roderus (now www.homegunsmith.com) for 3 years now, I feel a comment is in order.
The problem the management had to deal with was people with no interest in guns or anything even remotely related were pirating our BW by posting their own stuff (again not even remotely related) for their friends to download. This had to stop, it was getting expensive.
I don't post here much, or even lurk very often, frankly I've outgrown this site. Compared to us, this forum should be named "Assemble your Own" not "Build your Own". From a gunsmithing / gun design perspective; our database far exceeds yours in depth, detail, and shear technical expertise. We not only have an enormous collection of data from accomplished amateurs (including many AR15.com refugees) but also from many professional gunsmiths and real SOTs, from all over the world. Yes it is definately worth something.
AR15.com has its place and provides a valid function; you people do an admirable job of dealing with the beginners, certainly better than we do (but we do try). Those who acquire the experience AND the required machine tools graduate to our site.
Enough said.