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Paying rake and being a source of rake are two different things.

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No, this is where you are WRONG. They are the exact same thing.

Whether the money a "pro" brings to the table was earned off of a lesser skilled player or washing dishes, it accounts for the same rake contribution as every other player in that game.

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In the short term, this is correct. For how much Party makes this week or month or year, it doesn't matter to them who pays the rake. But in the long run, winning players take away money that losing players would have eventually paid in rake instead of losing to good players. On top of that fish are more likely to bust out quicker if playing against all good players and will stop playing if it gets too expensive. So its kind of a trade off, and I think what ÖÖΘ is trying to get at. They make a lot of money off the winners that multi-table and pay a lot of rake, but at the same time, they realize that if too many winners are playing over-fishing will occur, and they can have no long term success without the fishies, b/c the minute the games are no longer good at Party, noone will player there.