You don't always need to overtly censor stuff to ruin a forum. This forum gets a similar treatment to r/conspiracy and 4chan/pol. After 2016, r/conspiracy and 4chan/pol were inundated with shills constantly shitting on conspiracy theories, theorists, and genuine users, wildly manipulating vote totals, preventing genuine discussion (posting porn and useless topics on 4chan), and driving genuine users away. This forum is experiencing something similar, to a lesser degree. There are quite a few "users" here doing the same thing as the shills on r/conspiracy and 4chan, which have mostly been captured and ruined.