Stickandrudderman has taken a lot of flak unfairly in my opinion. He is one or the few still interested enough to question the PFA/LAA policy. The majority lost interest after the whole forum was deleted for the second time.
The first PFA forum was a useful place to visit and a search answered pretty well any technical light GA question. It was not just PFA and open to all to ask their techie questions. A lot of very experienced people contributed their knowledge to it. The problem was it was easily hacked because nobody at PFA either understood or cared enough to keep it secure. Instead of fixing the software, one day the whole of the forum content was arbitrarily removed. It was a knee jerk reaction by people that didn't understand anything about computers.
After it was deleted it came back as a members only forum. Some took the time to repopulate it with snippets of the useful stuff but the ability for non members to ask questions or answer them was lost.
Then it was deleted a second time, this time because no one at LAA tried to move the posts to a new forum format. Many took that as an indication of how much LAA valued their contributions and the majority with anything useful to say drifted away to Flyer and PPrune.
So the above is why the LAA forum is a dust ball nowadays. The anonymity and sensitivity to criticism issues are really small fry in comparison. They have just made sure no one bothers to try again.