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In all honesty, if there is an influx of new users on this board that lean heavily to the left, there will be a noticeable increase in racial news. The left/right groups will end up duking it out for a long time, so I don't know how you'll moderate that.
It was a bit of a nuisance on 4chan because mods just stopped moderating- they'd rather see what happens when two fringe groups tried to self-moderate a board. It's like having /a/ and /co/ share the same board.
I'm seeing flags on /new/ for some reason, so I'll add this. Back on 2010 /new/, there was a difference between /int/ and /new/, being that /int/ incorporated international culture/news and European trolling. /new/ was majority American (Americans have to have their own board). They were more concerned with ideologies and left/right politics and economics (Keynesian economics; trickle down economics; lol buy gold!). Also news.
I never understood why moot decided to add international flags on /pol/, or why he added optional ideology flags before that. If someone can make a good argument, flags are entirely unnecessary. It kills the venom in arguments; makes the opponent acknowledge the user's dispositions (positive or negative, but the entire argument will devolve either way). /new/ never had flags. It's what makes them so hateful yet amusing in their responses. When you're on /new/, you didn't know what kind of anon you're talking to. You just knew that someone disagreed with you and you didn't like it.
For some reason /new/ would blame the left fags on immigrants from /b/ (back on 2010 4chan, no mentions of reddit or tumblr at this point. tumblr didn't become relevant till the tumblr raid). /b/ was known to be pretty left wing despite not wanting any political affiliation. /new/ was a battleground between /b/-Random, Stormfront, and trolls. As it turns out, /b/'s popularity back in the days did attract opposition. /n/ started out a bit to the left, but due to the nature of the news board, it started leaning right, then it became majority right after moot axed it because they called Obama a nigger. The board held a grudge that lasted into the next reincarnation as /new/.
There's a bunch of other information that I'm forgetting, like the /new/ exodus, the ED censorship, some relevant things like why /r9k/ and /new/ were deleted in favor of /soc/. Theories mostly, but apparently revolves around board histories.
I like to think that people on /pol/ and previous news boards are unconsciously going to end up like Usenet. The end battle will be between the Random and News board.