Is this forum going downhill, due to numpty newbies?

Why do you feel the need to "catch up" with the forum?

Narrow your interests down to the important stuff only (such as the meme thread and the coffee thread) and let everything else go and fuck itself to hell.

Oh, I have very clear preferences in some ways and an increasing number of threads on ignore (including the meme thread :) ), but there are threads in which something interesting is posted occasionally, but in which it is drowned out by so much chatter that it's now harder to find it than it used to be. If I haven't been on the forum for three days and I get on it again to find that some threads have grown by eight pages in the meantime, I often don't want to read/skip all of that.