Originally Posted by femdomdestiny

to me, this sounds like completely insane logic. Dropping the site because someone is not working on site? DA in 2023? Losing links is wrong, I've just discovered a shitload of those "no-traffic" sites dropping links to one of my sites and I am almost 100% sure it affected my rankings significantly.

Personally, I never expect traffic from sites. Usually, links will get only a few clicks, but their value is relevancy and authority passing on to your site. So if the link to your site is placed in some relevant article in the same or similar niche on-site that is not penalized (but that's something you will know before getting a link there), I don't see a reason for stopping trade.

Eventually, they will remove your links too and that will affect your SEO efforts.