>>14518
As a former reddit user brought into board culture on the first day of GG, I can offer my perspective of why polpol is necessary.
I don't play videogames, nor do I own a television. For a period of time, I erroneously believed that FB, Twitter, Reddit, ect were the only real places for discussion. I believed that boards were the most evil place on the internet, and should be avoided at all costs. This was reinforced by the handful of people I saw or met who publicly spoke with pride about being halfchan users. Their dress, lingo, and mannerisms indicated to me that everything I'd heard about boards was true.
On the first day of GG, when the thread with 10,000 comments was nuked, I recognized for the first time how I was being lied to about supposed free speech on reddit. This led me to greater realizations of the level of censorship and control being exercised by many so called, avenues of free speech.
Despite my lack of understanding of how board culture worked, I soon concluded that halfchan was likely the only place left for true free speech. My values are arranged where freedom of thought and speech are my paramount concern. This led me to the boards.
Within a short amount of time the censorship reached halfchan and I again moved, to fullchan. Yet another short time later, I had grown tired of the endless childishness of GG. What I hadn't tired of, was the taboo and thoughtful discussions that, more often than not, had been planted by /pol/
As I drifted from GG, I washed up on the challenging shores of /pol/ where I lurked for months. The topics shocked me, angered me, surprised me, and made me think in perspectives I had never considered.
For whatever the reasons, pol declined in quality. Polpol picked up the mantle and created a space largely free from the trash. And while pol still has value and still has merit, the overall quality in polpol is unmatched.
I don't agree with polpol or pol in some things, but I crave the challenge of exposing myself to the "forbidden" knowledge that sadly only exists here. As our culture is homogenized into easily consumable garbage, polpol serves a gourmet meal made of exotic ingredients.
It may be slow. It may be scary. You may not always like its taste. But polpol will always serve substantive mindfood unavailable anywhere else.
Perhaps you can only handle it occasionally. Perhaps you eat here everyday.
It doesn't matter.
Polpol is one of the last places free of thought control. That matters. It matters far more than the currency of identity you seemingly invest in.
Go push your storm-dentity elsewhere, because I am a nobody, and I intend to remain so.