We disputed the "fake" part of your quote.
You chose to argue semantics and avoid the point, that the 19,000 is full of duplicate teams and ghost ships at best.
And still you act like you are the only one noticing it.
I'm not acting like anything. I'm just saying the number of teams signed on is a better indicator of the health of the website than a number full of duplicate teams and ghost ships. And since you and many others either don't understand that or deliberately choose to cling to the 19,000 number, the conversation goes nowhere. I'm sorry the site is slowly bleeding users, but avoiding talking about it in any real and meaningful way won't help. For that matter, for the BB's to avoid addressing improvements to the game in any real and meaningful way doesn't help, either.