This image tells the tale doesn't it?
![](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmdPXnMo5qcWdWyb1S9BcicayT58Uri7GrhViFhnZCfdoS/image.png)
Only a thousand and eighty three Authors. Twenty nine more of them just left.
ONLY 2927 active accounts...and that's UP by 107 from the day before..
Out of a hundred and forty seven thousand one hundred and sixty eight accounts total...which is UP by two hundred and eighty six from the day before.
I'll have my bot get with your bot..
I don't know what tale that tells, and would need more statistics over a longer period of time to discern anything from it, while also taking into account many other factors. The Flag Wars have seemingly been contained to just a handful of people being involved and flagged. I don't know if it would affect the whole system negatively or positively in terms of numbers of users, as some people find the Flag Wars entertaining to a certain extent, many people aren't aware of it (or think it is related to the experiment), and it seems to be generally only a few people getting flagged, but recently it has escalated.