Re: Bitcoin Pizza Day - Why old members are no longer active here
⭐ Merited by The Pharmacist (1)
One very interesting thing is how well people wrote in the early days of bitcointalk. Comparing post quality in 2010 to today is astounding. As clever a moneymaking mechanism as the signature campaign is, it was definitely a quality-killer for posts here once it sucked in the poor, non-English speaking folks (sorry, but it's true). Anyway, for people who really like bitcointalk, reading posts from way back when is almost addicting. It was like a different world.
It really depends though. Often times people like to look back on things, and think how good it was back then. Especially, when it's new content to them. Old posts which have been unread are always the most interesting, especially when relating to the history of the forum, and Bitcoin itself. In reality there was complaints back in 2011, 2012, and so on about the decline of quality posts on the forum. Thus, you would think that this is because, of the wider adoption of Bitcoin bringing in all kinds of different people, cultures, and ideas. This would of been seen as a good thing a few years ago, but unfortunately with widespread adoption/awareness comes the cons of people not being able/willing to speak good English or learn about Bitcoin, and it's related technologies.
Here's a post back in 2011 which has a small, but interesting discussion about the progression of the forum, and the cons of it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9147.0
I'd say a lot of the old members are still around, but probably are busy with their day to day lives. 
Like that Johnthedong guy?