As far a minority of people who care about freedom of speech is concerned, I agree (and I think most here would). It seems that by far the majority of members (that were posting their opposition to the mixer ban) were motivated by the payments being made by them and had mixers paid less most other campaigns many of them would not have bothered complaining.
Believe me, many people only care about the fact that mixer signature campaign was paying high sum of money compared to other campaigns and that's why they miss it and beg theymos to change his mind. If mixer campaigns weren't about to pay lots of money to participants, then there wouldn't be much discussion about banning them. There is only a minority of people who really care about the freedom of speech and genuine discussion.