When a forum's majority voice runs off the people that disagree with us, we shouldn't be surprised when discussion eventually drops to nothing. I rarely agreed with R2, OT, kola and others, but you'll have to admit that we had plenty of political discussion when they were here.
Granted, we can't blame all of the slowdown on that, but there's no doubt that we had members here who went after them personally and tried to run them off. Unfortunately, from my viewpoint at least, they appear to have been successful.
Additionally, when a site has a small and close-knit group like we have at Ranchers, it's easy for alternatives to rob the site of participation. We probably lost some discussion to Facebook and/or other sites.
I really miss some of the spirited debates that we used to have in Bull Session more than I miss Political Bull. I'm sure a lot of us missed some work over those pissing contests some days. It was sometimes hard to get busy in the mornings when we had to teach somebody a lesson on the internet. LOL
I'm sure that Q probably predicted this would happen.