As a former moderator at BBD I know a lot about what happened. It was a lively place until Bill sold it. The new owners really didn't care one bit about the community. At one point they forced a password change and I lost the ability to get in. I contacted the admins and never heard a word. Traffic had already slowed to a crawl at that time. For kicks and grins look at the members names. I'll bet half of them are NOT car people, but scammers. The site value is in the registered members so it never gets cleaned up. We used to delete obvious non-car people. With the popularity of this site I don't see BBD ever getting back to what it was. I don't believe it will ever be managed by car enthusiasts again. I was gone for 5 years and still have the second most posts on the site...
