I question this groups usefulness, but I hope for the best. I'm mostly looking for intelligent and informed conversation. After lurking the forums, I am not excited to see so much immature talk. What are your thoughts on my assumptions?

depends on what you deem to be "immature" if it's the constant anger coming from the people here, it's just due to a lot of frusration, if it's the topics themselves, then there is a) not much to be done about some of them and b) some actually mature and interesting topics of discussion. there are two or three that come to mind if you would like me to link them