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I said the money can help because Chipmixer was paying $300 which is $12000 in 28 days and $15600 in a year. That amount is not small in a way we can call it small.
CM paid most of his campaign 0.0375 BTC for 50 posts per week, what you mentioned didn't last too long - and the max payout per week was $1200 (you added one more zero). If you look at the current price of BTC, anyone who was in the campaign in, say, the first three years and did not spend their earnings today can say that they earned about $10 000 a month or $120 000 a year.
Many of this good posters are now in Exch, Bcgame and Blackjack campaign but the payment is very lower than the mixers that have been banned on this forum. 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.
It is true that some left for various reasons, and some certainly because they were no longer motivated (financially) or they got scared after CM was banned. However, many remained and are still active regardless of the fact that the campaigns pay quite low pay rates compared to what they paid before. It would be interesting to see what would happen if some campaigns significantly raised pay rates - that is, if that would motivate some old members to return.
One thing I know is that as some people will go, some people will come.
There is some truth in that, but it's still hard to replace some members who have been on the forum for a long time and they were extremely high-quality posters. In addition, new members used to definitely have a motive to one day become members of some of the best paid sig campaigns, today there is no such motive at all - although for some, even $100 a week is certainly a lot of money.