ParanoidObsessive posted... Yeah, that's basically what I meant.
"Becoming more active" means new users coming in. If enough new users come in, they start to outnumber and overwhelm the people already there (most of whom have been there for more than a decade). Over time, the board culture would start to shift. Over a long enough time, and with enough CE refugees flooding in, PotD essentially stops being PotD and just becomes CE-Lite (or New-CE).
Most PotDers wouldn't see that as a good thing.
It's a problem CE refugees (refuCEes?) are going to create no matter where they choose to go, unless they just pick a completely empty dead board as a replacement CE. Flooding into boards with preexisting members/activity/history/culture is just going to kill those boards instead.
So where should those users go? You make it sound like the answer is to another site. If they aren't welcomed at those boards according to your anecdote.