It's almost the same in the French section...

There must be 5 or 6 of us who are "active"...
90% of posts are off-topic, produced by 3 members who argue non-stop (for years now with always the same arguments) about Islam, terrorism, immigrants and antisemitism. They give to the board a depressive mood, since no matter what they discuss, they'll fall back into their arguments about Arabs and terrorism ; so I understand why all the people interested to discuss BTC just stopped to post.

The overall level of interractions is appalling, I'm not far from just ignoring the local FR entirely at times. More than 50% of our "active posters" are already on my ignore list anyway.
The mod is cool and does his job well, but unfortunately he can neither transplant a brain onto those members, nor give them any interest in discussing BTC-related stuff. He has opened several topics to try to calm this tendency to hijack all the topics, but it doesn't change.

As you say, there are also lurkers and our translations can potentially help some of them, so it's fine.