Me too.  Whenever I happen to meet someone who is into crypto I often bring up the forum to see if they're someone I may have crossed paths with or that I may know something about.  I have yet to meet anyone who has ever heard of this place in the real world.  It's mind blowing to me because I always thought of this place as the center of Bitcoin activity.  Now it's a place people think is only for spamming for cash.  At some point it became more profitable while dealing with less harassment to spam here than actually put work into creating a product or service that would benefit the community.  Why deal with the trolls yelling scam and trying their best to harass you on and off the forum while you spend countless hours working on your passion, when you can just write some word vomit, collect a weekly payment and not give a shit?  This is all due to the atmosphere that's been allowed to persist, while those in a position to stop it would prefer to decentralize their responsibility to avoid personal responsibility, or what is know in other words as letting the inmates run the asylum.