I think it was about 15 years ago, maybe more, that I tried to join the Ed Forum. My memory is a little fuzzy, but I think at the time they were not accepting new members although it's possible that was a different forum. I haven't noticed much difference int the quality of the discourse in any of the forums in which I was a regular. The one exception was the unmoderated alt. conspiracy.jfk. That was a no-holds-barred environment and that was obvious from the quality of the posts. I mostly stuck with McAdams' alt. assassination.jfk but would occasionally venture into the nuthouse just for fun.