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>completely normal, even though no other GG hub has dropped as far
no one is happy with the drop, nor is it "normal" if it was there would not be arguments or reasons explaining why its droping, like say having to deal with 2 prior board exodus, time itself eroding at an initially reactionary revolt, incessent shills shitting threads, shitting on pro-GG ecelebs, and various DnC attempts.
>not Acid Man's fault in any way
debatable, but I would argue that getting rid of shitposters did less harm than you think, your 90% figure is based mostly on the drop from what was board 2 numbers prior to final exodus, not accounting initial loss AND how "90%" ( I want a citation there) is still less in term of raw number than what was lost total in previous boards collapses. percentage value is bullshit when not put in proper context.
>not harmful to GG, but talking about it is
its not harmful rather than irrelevent, to be more precise the threads like these all follow the same M.O. to the point of being a waste of everyone's time. Instead of going OMG, we losing number are down defeatism, how about ya start a thread with an Idea or and OP on how to get back numbers, and not a blanket "how we fix this" OP, an actual idea, one you can figure out in the meta thread and THEN making a thread.
>will bounce back after the summer/winter/etc despite no evidence that this will happen
prior yeah showed plenty of examples of numbers going down and back up, sure not back up 100% but still back up, the recent migration fail is but 1 example. factor in the various reasons why the board is eroding, not limited to those mentioned in this post, I purposefully left out the revolt drama because while I believe their board was run and driven by
true shills hooking a bunch of useful idiots into running the perfect controlled oposition,it cannot be proven nor used as an argument. same goes for a revolttard seeing it the other way around with Acid (and now Mark) being the GG boogieman for why everything went to shit.
here is how you win, ya make something CONSTRUCTIVE, be it OC, meaningful participation, FUNposting, digging, fighting collusion/corruption via exposition/social presure, or even self-criticism,.
but the criticism need to be valid, your arent, he is an eample of valid criticism:
-We let ourselves be burnt out
-we lost many good elements like diggers and supporting e-celebs over petty drama (real or manufactured)
-being reactionary we
end up doing little when no outrage or happening going, much of our opposition actually wised up and started avoiding/ignoring/blocking us completely instead of debating us, cuz we trump them everytime they try, so circlejerking is now the best survival method they can use, to bunker up. and
-we are not redpilling enough, they went for bluepilling ignorants who are not yet aware of the ills of the progressive authoritarian puritarian left, MSM and UN style. So often the ony difference between being blue or redpilled is who got to the normie first. people are sheeps and often follow the 1st person telling them the "truth", and once you choose your camp, ya end up rationalising everytime your beliefs are challenged. that's why its so hard to make a blue become red, even if the actual truth is on our side, the rare people who switch side are those using rationale instead of emotions.
-We are an anonymous imageboard, while it has its anonimity perks, its way too easy to abuse, thats why reddit is the strongest one, as circlejerkish and namefaggit it may be, it has the advantage of seeing the fakes a mile away, ya can figure out the cliques, and to fuck KIA up require a very smart and subtle plan, and contrieving. Chans can just be shitposted into oblivion. in fact the User ID is one of the rare aspects slowing it down, but barely effecting, new threads have different ID for the regular users, so debunking a shill need to be done again each time, wich is time consuming and draining.
I could prolly think up more but you get the picture