I don't know if it has been commented in some of the 17 pages of the thread, has the activity on local boards increased lately? I say this because I see that there are some signature campaigns that pay to write on the local boards, about 40/50% of the total weekly quota, we have been commenting on the subject in the Spanish section, and at least I remember years ago it wasn't like that, I don't know if this could have had any influence.