Are we losing our Valueable members?

[Adbitco]

If you must know gambling projects or no gambling projects anyone who decides to be active can really be active without even enrolling themselves into gambling projects or even joining campaign as a matter of facts. There are lot of boards to have discussion and it must not be gambling section to have discussion. For instance; if you check the WO section you could see real people who doesn't engaged themselves with gambling discussion rather are just focusing and having the cruise and rides of Bitcoin discussion over there without even getting closer to other board which could likely diverts their attentions.

However, if you also look forward at the technical sections you would also see those who are active, not necessarily mean that they must joined campaign but they are in that section answering technical questions and joining the discussion. What happens is that, I think the forum is a matter of interest and areas of dedication. Of course not everyone who comes to look for money here, there are people who are already made and just coming here to catch fun and having real life discussion with people who are interested in Bitcoin because that is their vision and they believed in Bitcoin development and adoption.

Moves down to how we are losing valuable members in the forum; well, I must say this is not something new anymore as we believe that life can't keeps riding along with everyone, and of course taxi bus doesn't Carry everyone to same direction or destinations, at some point some people could likely drop by the road side while some people drops at the nearest junction, some keep proceeding. Same ways goes to those sets of people whom you graduated from secondary and university level, some are self employed while some are still searching jobs. In summary we must not see everyone at all times, some people could be facing life challenges and real life matters over themselves, some or most of them are gone, while others could be sourcing for a better life other than being active on the forum. Of course, we don't have same vision and direction, hence I believe that there are people who directly or indirectly working towards their mission, vision and passion in their Fields of their studies.

[Daniel91]

Yes, it is true that over the years we have lost some very reputable and well-known members. The first name that comes to mind for me is Lauda, followed by Marlboroza.
There are also other members whose names I can't recall at the moment. I can't say that I always agreed with them; sometimes we even argued, but I still miss them.
Why did they leave? Of course, I don't know their personal reasons, but I can share my experience, as I haven't been active on this forum for the past two years.
 Our life and personal circumstances change, other obligations and responsibilities come up, sometimes we get tired of certain activities, and it's perfectly healthy to take a break and focus on other things. After all, there is life outside this forum as well. I returned to the forum when my personal circumstances changed and because I now have more free time and fewer obligations, and I never stopped following the forum. The fact is that online forums have become an outdated form of communication, and it is actually the signature campaigns that give life to this forum.

[dkbit98]

Honestly, I think I'd like to see a forum led initiative to try and promote healthy discussion in an attempt to increase the popularity of the forum. However, I'm not sure how that would look or work.

I am not hoping that any initiative would do any good or bring more healthy discussion when we know that people mostly using social media these days for posting about anything, including bitcoin.
Problem I see with social media like twitter is that owners are always changing algorithms, and they can easily start banning or shadow-banning anything.
And most people simply moved to other things, same like Satoshi did long time ago.

[odunybiz]

One name I still remember strongly was "Ratimove". And as far as I remember, he used to add useful topics to his thread (I think his thread name was 'Encyclopaedia CMIIW'!) so that newbies could get useful information in a quick way, but sadly we lost that gem, and he passed away.

Ratimov had his nickname changed to Symmetrick, went kinda nuts, started name calling, deleted every post he could, backed out of a sponsorship, and eventually was banned. He single-handedly destroyed his reputation and left.

No one is indispensable. Although some people may be good and helpful to people in the forum but I never see issues in it if they were ban for later not keeping the forum rules. No one should be above the rules no matter how important you are. Well, although we may be losing some knowledgeable people but is only God type that doesn't exist. More knowledgeable people will keep coming to the forum also as some knowledgeable people are moving out. In here, people go, people come, forum remains.

I did not interact with Leo much and I had to take note of him when he wrote about his situation and exit from the forum, that was when I had to go through his posts, sincerely he was a great asset to this forum and was loved by many.

Some may live due to lack of interest or just too busy at the moment to be available on the forum. And this is something we can't do anything about. Everybody with his/her opinion about life.