I understand.

Hopefully we could eventually at least try these two propositions together and see if these changes are enough to get this place working as intended again.

And for that to happen, we need to keep making noise about it. It will be harder and harder to oppose this change when majority of the users that are left want it and those who oppose it are the ones benefit from the current situation can't explain their stance logically. It will only drive people away and kill these people's "golden goose", and if the money is only thing they care about, they'll perhaps, finally, listen.

And I think we already have acknowledged the problem, these discussions have been going on for months, lately there's been some serious pushing to finally get something done to fix this issue and people have been coming up with ideas. Separating passive investors from active ones is the best one I've seen so far, in my opinion.

Now if only @ned would chip in.