>>868 That's actually what it's like on the other imageboard I browse. The designated politics thread is dead and I haven't seen any unironic fighting in months or years. Even then, it's was one or two known jerks getting political.
Even in 4chan generals (back in the day), you got to know the group and soon knew who the one or two trolls were and ignored them. Comfy generals were fucking perfect. I could even tell when I was debating with the same anon as last month. Why wouldn't he just settle for canonical designs?
>>869 and as a PS, that imageboard community was not because of any banning or strict mods. The only rules were no politics outside the politics thread and no low-effort posts. The only people who stayed were the ones who didn't care about fighting and insulting. This imageboard will soon be the same.
>>870 Strict rules are counterproductive somehow. It's like spammers and trolls get attracted to it. Maybe because someone got banned and would like to take revenge?
Our world is full of paradoxes.
>>879 No it doesn't, friend.
A medium sized self-moderating community can even defend against a decent spam raid while mods are asleep. Just ignore shitposts and bump good threads with actual content, for the most part.
Nanochan isn't quite there yet though.
>>887 Quality content isn't easy to come by, and artifically increasing the user count does not cause a linear increase in quality posts, and only serves to muddy the signal to noise ratio, especially on a forum like this without any way to filter the noise (upvotes/likes/favs etc)
Also, a self moderating community is still susceptible to long term cultural forces, which may be too subtle of a change over time to notice or cause burnout within the community. One such case could be voat, and the Q boomers they had to deal with (them being lolbergs doesn't really help either)
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