There seem to me to be two “official” ways to look at the state of boards on the chans these days, both of them wrong. First, we conceive it to be an engineering problem that can be made to yield to a pragmatic instrumental approach. From this vantage point there is a simple right and wrong way of organizing topics into threads, never the thousand private individual possibilities the epic oldfag anons might have believed in. Second, we look upon the chans as if it were a character in a continuous courtroom drama, a drama wherein we search for the villains who have prevented quality from being posted. Lazy mods, poor bait victims, incompetent administrators, evil shills, ill-trained newfags, bad shitposters — whoever the villains may be we shall find them, report them, censor them, persecute them, perhaps even ban them! Then things will be okay.
Monopoly chans have been the chief training institution of the hivemind rulefags. It ensures permanent mods who enjoy privileges of status unwarranted by the content they produce. Because these privileges, once achieved, will not willingly be given over, whole apparatuses of rulefaggotry have been fashioned that are impregnable to change. Even under the severest criticism they grow larger and more dangerous because they felate important parts of the administrator and owner of the site. In the most literal sense they are impossible to reform because they have ceased to be human, having been transformed into abstract structures of superb on-topic efficiency, independent of lasting human control survival mechanisms. This is not a devil you can wrestle with as Daniel Webster did with Old Scratch, but one that has to be starved to death by depriving it of victims.
Posting must, I think, be decentralized as quickly as possible. That certified hotpockets like me are deemed necessary to make quality happen is a fraud and a scam. Look around you: the results of subjective moderation for quality are in the boards you see. Let anybody post who wants to; give users back their abilities to pick and choose threads — who could possibly be a better decider if the means for self-moderation were made available? Restore the original system by encouraging competition after a truly unmanipulated free-market model — in that way the social dialectic can come back to life. Trust in culture and Post too long. Click here to view the full text.