Hello, I have spent many hours studying the old threads at your wonderful forum, and I suggest to anyone they do the same. The amount of challenging, high-quality topics combined with no spam or sigs is a refreshing retro experience for me. As we quickly head into 2024, do you think there many real (unpaid) people still posting here at BCT? Have a great day.
Yes, there are active members who don't get paid for posting, yet they are very active in this Forum. Someone like Vapourminer, JayJuanGee, and many others, who are mostly just active on the wall, observers can see, how active they are there, even when there is no signature displayed there.
But are quality posts being graded by you based on the amount that the Poster is being paid? There is no doubt that the pay is what increases the post-quality of many, but also don't forget that when you don't have anything to produce, even if you are being paid a higher amount, nothing can still come out of it.
There are people, who are just active on the forum and contributing the way that they can and not minding the payment, and their are still those, who get paid and still giving their best to the Community. Every person has different goals.