No. Eternal September is about large numbers of new participants overwhelming a community's ability to maintain standards of behavior.

This is case of Tragedy of the Commons, where individuals can profit from ruining something that benefited everyone, because their individual profit is larger than their individual loss.

I was thinking that that’s only worth it if there’s something to gain. E.g. you need a maximum mass of people to be playing CS to make fucking with the server browser worth it. When CS was relatively unpopular, say the 1.6 era, nobody would bother with it.