Over the years I’ve seen a pattern of online connections who just disappear into the ether, so I get what Owl is saying.
For me this site ought to be about anyone being able to post and receive support from anyone at anytime from any member. Of course there’s various bumps along the way as we’ve all seen. But there’s been times for me when I have posted and I’ve received some absolute gems of replies from members I don’t even know and will likely never meet, that’s pretty special and it’s meant more than I can say. I try to do the same for others. Of course as it’s got quieter it seems like there’s less of us around to do this - I do hope this site will remain.
Reddit and Quora have both seemed so cut and thrust and mean to me, it seems like there’s no code of behaviour there, maybe because all the site owners are interested in is traffic idk.