Let me share my own ideas. It started after the merit system came. Frankly, I left it at that time. This platform never made an effort to attract new users.
Why do you think Bitcointalk
needs to attract more users?
Well more users means better paying signatures.
So it bitcointalk had 10x the users it had now I could earn more with a signature.
But there is more to bitcointalk than signature earnings.
more than casinos.