I did a bit of analysis to determine just how much Raging Bull has declined in terms of participation over the years. It seemed that a membership exodus was accelerating under eSignal's cheezit4brains management, but I wanted to be somewhat empirical.
While Raging Bull lists over 12,000 boards that eSignal says are 'active', in reality less than 1000 (932 to be precise) have had any activity in the month of February. There are close to 4000 boards that have no posts at all, which means that they died before the beginning of 2003. About 2000 boards died (based upon the date of the last post) in 2005, and 3000 died last year. Posts stopped on over 400 boards last month.