I guess our posts crossed in the night. I’m not as familiar with the two areas you posted, so the results may suck there, but looking around at the topical gambling areas, the results are just so much better, and it is also obvious what is being valued less now — tons of links. The .md sites are the easiest ones for people to notice. Tens of thousands of links from their own tens of thousands of self-generated pages had them at the top of everything, but now they have mostly fallen a few dozen spots.