Some people favored both no guest posting and no BS.

I was one of them, but we were a small minority.

Implementing heavy handed moderation to control posters' bad behavior was also controversial. Many good folk drifted away over time, for a lot of reasons as a result of all the contentiousness over those issues. Some didn't like guests, some didn't like the childish behavior a lot of people (many members included) were engaging in, some didn't like the BS.

But mostly, people fed up with fighting and flame wars just quietly slipped out. Haven't really seen many of them come back.

The BS section is very well tamed now, and some think that is just fine.

Count me among them.