On the other hand, a potential customer is not going to read your comment on page 37 of a quality megathread when it reaches page 40. When it reaches 38, maybe. However, if you are the creator of the megathread, it is very likely that potential customers, especially if they visit the thread for the first time, will read your OP every time someone comments, because the thread is bumped.
Maybe someone could show me a statistical analysis to the contrary, but if I were an entrepreneur putting advertising on the forum, what I would be looking for above all is people who create threads and publish posts on the first pages. That's where the advertising is going to have the most impact on my potential customers.
You are right!
I just think there are all sorts of big topics. And so they shouldn't all be handled in the same way.
Returning to the example I gave, a topic about books. The OP turns out to be irrelevant, because each new post is about a new book or a comment on another. It doesn't matter who does it.
That's all, everything else is fine.

It was just a coincidence

The avatar rule was a response to this campaign specifically (since I never thought I'd need it to be honest), but the removal of inactive people was something I would have done regardless.
I hope you didn't take it the wrong way DarkStar_

But it was a funny coincidence. At the same time, he was forced to change some things.
That's why it's good to have competition.