I have been there 14 years.
I won't get any good comments on some of the topics if I post there.
Well, you are something of an elitist... so only special people would contribute appropriately.

A couple of weeks ago I posted something to can.politics in the late afternoon. When I next visited the site the next day there had been no posts since I had last posted. In the old days there predictably would have been scores of new posts. So traffic is way down. And a lot of the more discerning posters have left, not just because of the moderation but the proliferation of crazies (and the moderation which comes down on anyone who makes fun of them).