Its no brainer that no one can beat up this forum when it comes to crypto and to those numbers you have seen into that place (cryptotalk) is mostly alt accounts that been created by the same user just to abuse those
few satoshis per post and as said above that i already expecting on what would happen if that said pay-per-post thing would end and it would goes the same on active users into that forum which signifies that
people only hang out to that place for them just to milk out some sats not totally concern into its importance.
The model represented by cryptotalk cannot compete bitcointalk because they are not at same level. Bitcointalk is not a pey-per-podt forum, while cryptotalk is. Many think that cryptotalk is an alternative to btt from the point of earning which is not true. The cryptotalk model becomes popular and many forums use it. I was recently invited to one of them.