If you look at the current situation of bbs,the activity went down drastically after the announcement of reducing cpm and only top contributors (partnered) members will be rewarded and eventhough it's been a lot of time after those announcement, many of the people who stopped posting haven't looked back since then which goes to show that bbs was about only earning but if you look at the fact that platforms that operate similar to bbs are not dependent on earning, for example reddit and are operating only on content, if you have visited reddit you would know that people use it for discussions as a community and not for creating a personal brand and I think bbs is also in the same track and if people can focus less on joining communities to earn and only visiting communities that are qualifief for engagement mining and start to focus more on using it in a communication standpoint I think a lot of the complaints would stop and we could go on a different road all together. But the fact is that its hard to see it in that way for most of the people and even including me but I guess this is a better approach