every time groink gets talked down to he says its a melt down
also, when I was there, every month or so they went through and deleted any accoun that was not active... like thousands of them. I was like, wtf are you doing, you're gonna have low numbers
They didnt just disable or ban the accounts, they banned the ip and then deleted the account's existence like as if it was never registered. so there's no computer generated accounts on their, they dont care about how many accounts their are, since even if you have an account, you can't access the sources until you get approved by the admin. so a they have no incentive to bloat the numbers
there was no smoke and mirrors in that forum when I was there