The question was rhetorical.
It's been a while, but I think Para dumped the S&W forum for the same reason he dumped (sold) the Ruger forum, finances.
And Lee (Handejector) bought the S&W forum but has sanitized/changed that place so much that many of the posters stopped posting. Plus, for the longest time there were complaints that posters were getting flagged by their virus protection software everytime they tried to log onto the S&W forum.
I stopped visiting that site because the new owner and his new clique have strange ideas. I never got any virus warnings, though.
Para was extremely heavy handed. Such things like posting that no profanity was to be included in thread titles, then he'd post a thread with profanity in the title, and when somebody pointed out the inconsistency, he banned them. Literally.
The night of the "long knives" he got into a beef with an old time member. Para banned him. Then other old time members and staunch supporters of Para went to bat on the other old time member's behalf. Para banned them too. A bunch of them. It was almost comical because I don't log on consistently and one week I came back and all their most prolific posters were gone. And you couldn't ask where they went or what happened.
But I found out about the other forum and joined over there. That was at the height of the battle. The 2aforum was running threads blasting sigforum. Para was running his own threads blasting "dinkville." Para would posts a couple of times a day how little traffic was on the other forum and how well sigforum was doing.
I swear, it was like watching rival kindergarten factions fighting at recess. I haven't been that entertained since Jimmy Carter got crushed by Ronald Reagan.
But yes, in line with the above posts, there are some fine men (and a couple of wimmins) on Sigforum.
And mostly they seem to be retired/active military and retired/active law enforcement. It's a good place to be.