This forum is antiquated.

I would appreciate the ability to upvote or downvote a post.

@craig1512 no it doesn't cost money to have a few more functions, you can't seriously claim that

If understand correctly, no one is required to post on or even visit this forum. 
I choose to not visit sites that I don't like, for whatever reason.  Much ado about nothing, but you did get my 2 cents.

Simple solution: If you don't like it here, go somewhere else. Or, you can just stay here and insult this forum and everyone on it. You decide!

suggesting improvements is not insulting, it’s easy to simply ’go away’, it’s more caring to want to stay and want to improve it. After you get good advice, and make virtual friends, it is even more of an incentive to want the site to be better for all, including future members.

like audiogon, dpreview costs nothing. However dpreview occasionally asks for suggestions to improve the site, gathers together this and that, revises the site.

I imagine it started somewhat primitive, made incremental changes over the many years. I've seen a few revisions since joining in 2012.