He appears to have gotten into an argument with ChatGPT and just copy/pasted the last response 

So annoying.

And for this reason 56k active members is too many. We need to cut that number down to about 10k; I reckon half the people logging onto the forum at any given moment are either at or below this level of comprehension.

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I voted for "Other" in the poll, no surprise its the leading result. The simple reason is peeps have gone elsewhere to discuss Bitcoin- and altcoin-related matters. And that's fine. As I've often said before, this forum is now more of a museum that serves to house Satoshi's posts. That's its primary role. So long as it keeps doing that, everything is fine.

Also, a lot of guests/passerbys simply don't want to wade through the enormous ton of shitposts to find the occasional nugget of interesting information. That's probably the main reason why regular people - who aren't interested in making money from the forum - don't sign up and contribute. From the outside looking in its an absolute spamfest.