Like several others I have been following this site for many years. There are a lot of baseball nuts here, just like me.
There is a lot of great information and like everywhere else there is also some who use the site to advertise. Sometimes there is some bad information, too, but that is usually corrected in discussion. Bottom line, there is a ton of experience among the membership.
Sometimes the same subject comes up over and over because people don't take the time to search the site. Things like the importance of SIZE, VELOCITY, GRADES, etc., the same thing sometimes several times each year. People want to help, but it gets hard repeating it all over and over.
I must admit, I do sort of miss those blow ups between posters. That was some great entertainment.
Anyway, I think there are lots of people that come to the HSBBW to read the message board, but don't actually become a member or post anything. A person could get opinions on most anything by simply searching the content.