It didn’t appear in our coding scheme as a distinct category, but particularly within the “diminishing returns” category below, and also in response to the question about barriers to further involvement in the EA community below that, there were a decent number of comments expressing the view that they were interested in having impact and weren’t interested in being involved in the EA community.
This sentiment came up a fair amount in the [2019 EA Survey data](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/F6PavBeqTah9xu8e4/ea-survey-2019-series-community-information#Changes_in_level_of_interest_in_EA__Qualitative_Data) about reasons why people had decreased levels of interest in EA over the last 12 months.
It didn’t appear in our coding scheme as a distinct category, but particularly within the “diminishing returns” category below, and also in response to the question about barriers to further involvement in the EA community below that, there were a decent number of comments expressing the view that they were interested in having impact and weren’t interested in being involved in the EA community.