/polpol/ - Politically Incorrect Discussion

Reddit/Voat hopefully, given that /gamergatehq/ + /ggrevolt/ have lost 1-2k active users as well, without a commensurate increase on /v/.

I think it's shills slowing down temporarily at the same time actual posters are getting fed up and leaving. /v/'s receiving an increase solely due to more mass-migrating of retards from it's halfchan equivalent, which is why everything's so dogshit right now.

>>15348

This saddens me so much.

/pol/ used to be a huge place filled with bright people hidden among the trolls.

But they've all gotten fed up with how shitty it is again and again…

And now that collection of bright individuals are scattered, some in smaller communities, some just gone.

Shit sucks.

>>15371

It is really sad, because you see the scattered people arguing about Christian symbolism or national socialism or international jewry on boards like /n/, /k/ and /tv/, real intelligent and valuable people. There's a real sense of scatteredness and loss, and you get the sense that if we were to all converge and group up, great things could be achieved. That's why billions are being spent on internet archiving, disruption and data collection, to prevent such things from reaching their full potential.

I think I've read something about the mods there changing their policies recently, maybe /pol/ can recover.

>>15416

I think the only way this could be achieved is an extreme no-tolerance policy to spam, and a wide degree of pattern recognition. Even then I think we're all going to have to accept the fact that /pol/ will never return to pre-/int/ levels of quality.

>>15419

>and a wide degree of pattern recognition

If by that you mean self-moderation, then that's never happening. I don't remember a time when either /pol/ wasn't full of retards that couldn't stop replying to shills and shitposters.

>>15420

Before April 1rst, 2015, generally.

>>15421

/pol/ was also incredibly shit before April 1st. The water was simply heating at a too slow pace for most to feel it degenerating.

>>15424

I agree that /pol/ was shit for at least a few months before April 1. Mods were acting oblivious to the spikes of shit threads all at once.

As /pol/ has no ability to self-moderate it would take 24/7 shifts of dedicated volunteers (with said pattern recognition) to detect and delete shit threads. We haven't had volunteers with any kind of discretion or dedication in a long time.

It's not that hard though, the main problem is dealing with (legit or more likely illegitimate) complaints that they are overstepping. Because even when it's obvious based on patterns or spikes that a certain type of thread should be removed, there will be legitimate (well intentioned if still stupid) threads caught up occasionally.

I think /pol/ is already lost. for the past week or so I couldn't bring myself to go back there because of the majority of posts are being made by reddit people not knowing how /pol/ works, animefag shitposting and all the normal posts that are being made are shit-tier. I'll mostly hangout here, but this place is also falling apart because we don't have enough people, most of the new posts that are being made here are bad.

>>15475

I'm at the point where I just squat in brit/pol/ and that's it, really. It's not worth wading through the morass to look for the few good threads out there.