User blog comment:PsiCubed2/A request from everyone, regarding low quality content/@comment-32213734-20180322232430/@comment-30754445-20180323135324

Indeed.

I think one of our main short-term goals should be to get all these people back.

I doubt they left because of the trolling, though. The trend of good people leaving has began way before the current troll problem started.

I suspect that most of them left because they were sick and tired of getting silly off-topic responses to their thoughtful work. I can tell you that personally, I'm far less motivated to post my actual work here when I know this is the treatment it is going to get.