Everything that could be said, has been said. The site has been around since the early aughts. There is nothing left to discuss that hasn't been Foo'ed to death like the proverbial equine and it is all there in the archives. Noobs who ask questions are either told to do a search, given shitty advice, or driven away by GBR's particular charm. All that's left is to cop and seek internet validation for said cops. The site is done and will become a ghost town of deluded saps shilling to each other.
It is true - in some respects - that discussion has been relegated to searching the annals of that which came before. In fact, telling people to do a search is the best advice as the best menswear intercourse was in the past.
There are still certain threads in which discussion and exchange of ideas/opinions still do occur; Unfunded Liabilities comes readily to mind.
There has been a shift at SF and across the Interwbbz: discourse has been replaced by voyeurism.
Looking at pictures and thumbing/liking/loving visual posts has replaced discussing posts. Many more threads on SF are about appreciation of a particular brand. Appreciation translates into "like only discussion". Dissenting opinions have no place in "appreciation" threads. Have no place in IG/Pinterest/LoveBlogs.
This is why BluePolackLoafers can be rated as one of the best dressed men in Euroland. Not because he is, but because he posts and posts copious quantities of pics/forwards/shares/virtual blowjobs that result in reciprocal acknowledgments that build a false cult of personality.
Then Interwebz/IG voyeurs pass on the love not because they have background knowledge of good/bad, tacky/stylish but because they are either passive/active shills or just plain ignoramuses.
That is how Polack/Swedish/Finnish engineers can be seen as style influencers: by presence alone. They take the time to whore themselves over the interwebz to vacuous voyeurs just waiting for content without context.
True elites rarely engage in menswear cosplay because because they are more interested in tissue vs brand while all the voyeurs just want immediate visual gratification without acquiring the base knowledge to understand.
Whores and pimps, pimps and whores. And even those who have knowledge are loathe to share it and instead chose vendettas over mentoring.
Case in point, a Latino former member here buys "pretty" suede balmorals because they are a safe brand and "look good" despite the fact that he rarely wears a suit let alone one of the type of tissue that would best compliment the sexy suede of the balmoral.
