Sounds a little bit like the HL forum. Which has been quite shit for a while now imho. I hope this place isn't on it's way down that path. I haven't looked at the AR's yet today, I bet there's maybe only one or 2 that I'll read. When I logged into the Gerneral Talk section there are at least 21 threads that are advertising or bumped up threads promoting shops and girls. It's not really general talk is it. I'd hapily post more reviews, but I'm in a financial hole at the moment, so unfortunately my punting has unfortunately stopped in this country.
I remeber the days when it was almost impossible to get a shop to post a roster up online or to find out who was on unless you actually called or visited a shop. Now we have to trawl through pages of advertising to find a normal review or general topic of conversation. A happy meduim would be nice.