Absolutely I mirror everything that is said.
I am a part of a few vehicle forums, motorcycle, dirtbike , sled, HID forum, to name a few.
This forum is definitely full of respectable, knowledgeable people who are willing to help others out too. I feel lucky because the 3 forums that I frequent the most all seem to be a great community.
I try to give back to every forum that I'm apart of. I have done a lot of tech writeups over the big 3...some very simple to help a beginner DIYer out, and some have gone into detail and the amount of work involved the majority wouldn't want to tackle. If I'm doing something that I feel lacks in good information to the user, I'll do it over and try to bring it down to everyone's level, since when I ventured into all of this with my very first vehicle, I had a lot of help. Not just my first vehicle, but when I changed vehicles to something new (gas to diesel for example). I ask a lot of questions and I know the people that want to help out want to see others succeed in their endeavors.
That all being said the ad thing...yes a lot of new forum changes everywhere have been happening, it seems one or 2 companies have the monopoly on the forum platform industry now. I really like that this forum is ad free yes.
But if you guys haven't heard of Ublock Origin, I suggest that you download it for your browser.
All the other forums that I go to have ads, but I use Ublock and have never encountered or had an issue with ads across the platforms using this extension.