Well said, and why I left nothing here for me but EE and a sad reminder every time I look at the forum pagesMany of them were yes. Others have simply faded back into the shadows. I know one of the more popular and higher posting members personally (I'll withhold the name for privacy). He was well respected on here and very few of his posts were fluff. He has since stopped posting and visiting this site due to the total gong show it has become. He now posts on the other site, the name of which by the way has been censored here.
Look at member post counts. In the old days, the members with counts in the hundreds and thousands and who had been around for a couple years outnumbered the "newbies" and posted regularly. Now, if I see someone in a thread with a join date previous to 2011 or 2012 and a post count above 500 I'm honestly surprised. It's only when a long time dealer or member is involved in the thread when the "old guard" so to speak tend to make themselves known.
Heck, I rarely post outside of OT here anymore and my browsing of the other sub-forums takes about 10 minutes because there is not often something new. It's the same old topics being beaten to death and people arguing and name calling. The civility and community feeling of this site has degraded severely. Every now and then in the local gun shop or at the range CGN comes up in conversation, and more often than not I here people laugh and say something to the effect "yeah, nutz is a good name for the site". That is really too bad as this site was once a powerhouse and a place to be a part of the shooting community. I really enjoyed me first years here and I still like alot of the occasional posts the "older" members make. Unfortunately, this site doesn't offer much more than that and the raucous way it's run and managed make it difficult to stay for long. There are other sites for Canadian shooters that offer a more organized, community type atmosphere.
Anyways. Off the tangent, I don't think John and Marstar are leaving CGN solely because of the naysayers. I think they're leaving because of the dog eat dog, throw your fellow shooter under the bus mentality this site has become, both through it's membership and it's management.