I use the Historic forum mainly to gather information about up coming meetings and news and reviews from events I've just attended.
As a couple of posters have said the actual debate on here is limited and outsiders, especially mere spectators, are ignored most of the time.
Still the forum is very worthwhile for me for the info and if I want to chat about historic racing issues I only have to wait until next I meet JT and we can put the world to right.