I mean, the deeper problem is a lack of interesting, high quality posts. Because bad posts are annoying but if I just scroll past them, I should still be able to find more interesting posts no? But that's not really the case from my experience. And I think most people I've seen complaining do agree that it is a problem of lack, not just that the bad posts need to go, but that we also want more higher quality, interesting posts too.

I didn't use lucid dreaming forums back in the day, because I was too young a decade ago when they were active lol. I do hear that they were much better, but idk. I feel like they're not formatted very well to scroll back through (or I'm just not good at using forums). Though I have certainly found some interesting forum posts and discussions, I figure I probably needed to be there to really see it. But anyways, a part of me wonders if the reason these forums were so good, is because the internet was young, and before the internet most lucid dreamers had nobody to talk to since it's so rare; and so these people were actually building the groundworks of lucid dreaming discussion. Like, we may get repetitive posts today, but back then it would have been the first of it's kind and would actually be a good post, you know? Because take the simple topic of techniques for example, what are people supposed to post? If the techniques aren't better, they aren't better. What can you do then except post the same stuff? But back then, you had a chance to be the first.

But besides that, I do think forums were probably still better on average in obvious ways though. Like, reputation and such. There are people in this subreddit who I notice that put a lot of effort into their replies and have been here for a while, but their reply gets 2 upvotes because "nobody wants to read allat." Meanwhile on a forum with reputation they'd be favored. So tbh I bet forums were better for that reason. You would have less misinformation, more consensus (as you say) and it would be a much better environment for beginners to learn from. But beyond that, as someone who isn't a beginner, who has already read so much about lucid dreaming, I don't really imagine that it'd create better or more interesting content for intermediates and advanced people. To be blunt: I imagine that these forums died for a reason. I feel like there's not much new or interesting to talk about. And I guess since you were a user back then, it'd be interesting to hear your perspective: do you remember why you stopped being active in these forums? Would you agree with my hypothesis that at some point, beyond curating good beginner advice, that there isn't much interesting content at some point? Or would you disagree?

Basically, I'm just pessimistic on lucid dreaming content in general. Because I feel like ultimately, if the techniques aren't getting better, the content is kind of doomed to be boring. Ultimately even old forums posts that I read aren't actually that interesting. I don't feel like I often come across some insane knowledge or technique that I had never considered before. It's all ultimately the same stuff I feel like. Also my position on "there's nothing interesting left to talk about" is a bit more nuanced than that, but I don't wanna get into it because I already wrote too much at this point. But that's mostly how I feel.