Do you think that the low pay makes some reputable posters to leave the forum in the name of no freedom of speech and censoring? Or I am just wrong about it.
One thing I know is that as some people will go, some people will come.
Who leave will leave or already leave and who stay will stay here with us.
I don't know you noticed some differences in their posting intensity. People who left after CM event and a more severe ban on all mixers, usually don't post too much. So even those campaigns stay with us, they will continue their very limited posts weekly.
People who stay after CM or mixer ban here, are active posters and I believe they will continue to stay here before we see their posting intensity drops a lot.