The Church of Satan wrote:I don't see how preventing telegram recruitment is intended to decrease LKE's population. It is up to LKE itself to keep its populace interested enough in the region to remain there. Blaming the mods for it is just naive.
Of course the recruitment block is intended to decrease the LKE's population - it is "just naive", as you put, it to believe anything otherwise.
In the absence of any recruitment, the population of any user-created region (other than a puppet dump) will fall over time.
The question is over how much the LKE's population should fall. Removing the effects of Bob Moran's actions is one thing; additional losses is another.