I think you said the evil word Brent, "money". Easier to abandon it and say, "it's good enough" and then head off to the local 5 star eatery in your $100k Aston Martin or equivalent and let the lowly serfs fend for themselves on the website.
With AWS boasting that it is the "premier", "leader", I would suspect that the forum should be more professional and of course guarded against the spammers that pollute the site at times.
Agreed Brent, "It is still the best site for knowledge, experience, and general welding information." Lots of knowledge here and we as the members need to police our own but we can only go so far when it comes to removing content of the lowlife individuals.
Give me a weekly stimulus and I can be a hall monitor of sorts. Can't do it for free though, knowing the costs of books, accredited lab fees, accredited tests and so on volunteering is out of the question.