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>The worst part of this is, however, that nowadays, 80% of users are newfags like yourself.
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with new users. In case you haven't learned this in the twelve years you've supposedly been browsing these sites, you are on an anonymous imageboard. There is no way to tell who is who, unless someone purposely makes themselves known with a tripcode. Identity is meaningless here, what is important is your mindset and the content you produce. In fact, I didn't even start seeing the word "newfag" crop up until mid-late 2007; before that everyone just got told to lurk moar. I think it was a better attitude overall.
*chan elitism never brought anything good, it just leads to everyone bitching at each other until a board dies in meta-drama and people forget how to have fun. Hell, just look at how small 7chan has become: their obsession with quality and weeding out newfags led them down a path to complete irrelevance, and even so, they aren't even that good to this day.
Oh wait, you're too new to know about that :^)
>It works well enough on all 8chan boards where mods wield a good banhammer. And it worked well on halfchan (who doesn't remember the butthurt on /q/? Oh wait, you're too new to know about that).
Oh really? How well did it work for /svidya/, which fell off the top 25, or /polpol/, which is dead? Sure, both boards have an abundance of text-walls, if that's what you're in to, but at the end of the day walls of text alone do not make a good imageboard, and if that's what you're here for it's far easier to visit some high-brow forum, or just read a fucking book. There isn't anything wrong with walls of text, but mandating that everything on a board needs to be 100% serious all the time serves to draw people away from the board, even people who might have otherwise contributed serious discussion but find the board too stale to tolerate.
And if you believe that on early 4chan, there was ever a widescale crackdown on "shills" or "shitposting", then you are completely deluded. Oh there were bans, but it wasn't because people were trying to get rid of all "shitposting" from the site.
Actually, I remember quite a few bans being done for the sake of humor.
I do remember when /q/ was made. I didn't visit much, but I remember it eventually devolving into "please delete /pol/: the board". At that point, /pol/ had some of the most lenient moderation on 4chan: it was lack of moderation, and freedom of speech, that was causing so much butthurt among the people trying to get the place shut down, because a board without heavy moderation cannot be controlled, and it's dangerous to groups that rely on the silencing of dissent to grow their ideologies (SJWs).
>Only /pol/ mods are stupid enough to let this happen - but, hey, libertarians.
You sound like you don't browse any other boards here besides /pol/ - until recently we were the most heavily moderated among the top 25, with the possible exception of /gamergatehq/ or /christian/.
Boards like /sp/, /bane/, /int/, /intl/, /co/, /k/, and /tg/ do just fine with relatively lenient moderation. They are all pretty good boards actually, and their users manage to take care of themselves without some asshole coming in every day to delete all the things he dislikes.
>No, I was on halfchan since halfchan split off from SA. Basically, you're full of shit.
That must make you the slowest learner on the entire site. You shouldn't wear that as a mark of pride.