The mods are long gone, this is a ghost bulletin board. I'd bet people look for similar ones with the idea to post extraneous crap without any editorial constraints.

I mean one of the regular and most prolific posters here keeps putting up stuff about crypto investments, without encouragement, and name dropping unknown people, as if they matter.

Not sure this is a bad thing. When the SFOR board here was in its prime, there were a lot of paid pumpers around and the mods all had ulterior motives, anyway.
Now it's anything goes, usually boring anythings, but whatever.