Imagine an Internet where accuracy was valued. Are there forums around now which are like that? What does it take?
LOL even in the "good old days" Usenet was absolutely chock-full of assholes and cranks, the above archive is just the _good_ parts.
'even in the "good old days" Usenet was absolutely chock-full of assholes and cranks'
EDIT: Formatting.
This forum is good for such topics, and so are many subreddits. If you want accuracy about other stuff like politics, good luck :) It's worse now but it was still bad in the 90's.
IME, in my fields of expertise (in IT), this forum is bad - as in, if you don't already have expertise, you shouldn't trust what you read; most of it is wrong or bad advice. Subreddits are worse, a waste of time (of course, maybe I don't know about good subreddits because I hardly ever read them).
Once fools have taken over > 50% of the messages and start writing in an authoritative manner, all is lost. See the python-dev mailing list after the woke revolution for example.