How To Save Time When Studying Trading Forums/Sites

I just came across this article and man do I agree with it. In fact the third kind - Honest Ninja Guru is growing rapidly and I've seen many such examples in the Singapore trading scene. The thing is, this isn't just limited to gurus selling courses, but also active posters on forums. My heart aches at the amount of time I've wasted trying to understand why certain traders take and manage their trades. Many of these people are very active on the forums, they post mostly winning trades and often go around correcting others. As a result they're highly hailed as expert traders, and due to their connections they're often highly vouched too.

Now recently I had a series of eye openers, which led me to a conclusion I will share about later. I'm so grateful for sites like AceGazette, where trade journals not just have to include the trades, but also the account statement and the reasons for the trade. It is through there that I realized how many of these traders are actually not even profitable. I've also seen statements of traders who multiply their accounts within a very short time only to over trade and blow up another one before long. Their equity curve is like a roller coaster and their win rate is low. There is one common theme: They mostly post winning trades after the fact, and their results are inconsistent. Why should I study such traders? Now I'm not trying to say they're out to deceive or have any ill intentions. But given the enormous and endless amount of trading resources and threads out there, shouldn't I spend my limited time studying the really good and consistent traders? So now here is my conclusion, only study traders and posts with the following attributes:

1. Posting before the fact. This is very obvious, you know a good trader because he posts when he takes the trade and not after the trade has ended as a profitable one. 
2. Able to explain his entries and exits. This is super important. Now if you're only interested in a signal service, you might not care about this, but if you really want to learn, the trader you're studying has to be able to explain his trading strategies coherently, and you must be able to observe from his trades that he does adhere to them consistently. This point alone eliminates many traders who only post their winning trades but are very evasive and unwilling to explain their entries/exits.
3. (Optional) Positive and consistent account statement. This is optional because if points 1 and 2 are fulfilled, I don't really need to see their account statement to know if they're a successful and consistent trader. Nevertheless, an account statement is the best proof. 

There, I've grown wiser based on that criteria, and no longer waste time studying or listening to traders who sound very knowledgeable and are hindsight kings but still lack profitability.