It has cleaned up some but the signal to noise ratio is still relatively low. The way to deal with toxicity is to either punt that offering, or put members on Ignore (any discussion forum). Today I learned that you can add someone as a "Foe" here, and that's the ignore list. What is CMF? As I understand it, some years ago, a group of Canadian finance blogs (four pillars, million dollar journey, some others?) decided to start a forum. Probably a run against redflagdeals. Looks like CMF was sold to VerticalScope (a consolidator of online forums) some time ago. They usually buy a community, get really restrictive with things (any kind of promotion that isn't a paid ad), and let it whither away. Sadly, VS has acquired a lot of car fo...