Interesting conversations don't exist on imageboards, apart from those you imagined as being interesting due to your emotional/metal state. Give up hope. Even if people join, we have so fundamentally different backgrounds, that there can be no junction however hard we try. Worst case scenario you just invite idiots/kids who ruin your site with lowbrow shitposting. Accept the post modern. A dead world where life seems to be more abundant than ever. There was never any place for contentment among people. There is nothing out there worth reaching out for. If you seek associates in the dead of the internet, your soul is already beyond salvation. Brace yourself. Life is a dream. And yours will be neither a short, nor a pleasant one.

>>673 >Life is a dream. And yours will be neither a short, nor a pleasant one what is this kind of doomer posting??? this isnt /R9K!!! but yeah you do make a point about the dead internet. This is especially true on the big websites like X and facebook. thankfully i dont go there. i wont be want to be found dead there. but i also think that this site is one of the good platforms

>>685 "platform" comes from the platform that performers stand on when enacting a show, imageboards are not a platform, here people are not the protagonists of their own comic show. Those that try to break these rules that are set in stone by the design of the medium are labeled "lolcows", they get no respect, not even fake respect that performers get, because they are dumb and not in on the joke. Internet culture has some nice unspoken layers in its terminology that few people other than the ones that came up with them really ever thought about, like, >hey, you know the retards over on twitter/reddit/youtube? Yeah they are proud of being comic show performers whose words have no impact whatsoever on the real world As an example of terminology that is not malicious, "broadcast yourself"

>not even fake respect that performers get *that internet performers get irl performers get respect and pussy

>>670 honestly, the most we could do to get newfrens in is to advertise on various social media platforms, but that might bring in all sorts of unruly or bad people. I know there are many people who would contribute good content here, many people like imageboards in practice but are scared by the nsfw and offensive content. We would need heavier moderation though, it would be best to slowly build up newfrens so we can assimilate them 1 by 1

>heavy moderation good excuse to start recruiting more mods which inevitably gets feds into the bunch and cp goes through the roof

>>689 more mods have already been brought on, we have a handful as is. i think we have a good amount for now.

I agree that heavy moderation is cancer, thus you by definition want to avoid attracting too many posters if you want to keep your place docile. Thought out rules are good, though, and help to shape the place the way it's wanted. But that doesn't imply heavy moderation.

>>691 Bro stop talking like ai wtf

>>694 please take your iq stabilizer pills there is nothing more poisonous and quickly rotting than abundance of moderators

>>696 That has nothing to do my post schizochama

>>708 you're so cute

>>691 heavy moderation is a blessing actually. the problem with most of the internet right now is that there isn't enough. that's why everything is ragebait now, why everyone is a debate addict, why internet conversations have become so unproductive in general. the big platforms are horrifying free-for-all s because that's what generates engagement and thus data and ad revenue conversations between radically opposing views is literally useless. for example, two coworkers discussing which framework to use for their next project is a debate because it is going to have good faith arguments made by people that are knowledgeable on the subject, and it will produce actionable conclusions. two guys with antagonistic positions arguing on reddit about some vague platitude is the opposite of a debate. the more opposed the views, the less useful the conversation will be but there has to be some distance between the two parties for any debate to exist in the first place, so you could say that there is a productive "window of opposition", before which any debate is pointless and after which any debate is useless. it depends on the topic, but I would say that, at least on the internet, that window has become rather narrow why has it become so narrow? because the lack of moderation means that it is okay to insult and disrespect the other side, so discussions become more about "owning" the other than about learning, understanding or arriving at conclusions. every conversation is actually a personal debate and if you lose you become the soy wojak, forever

>>711 Well, the problem of cancer is not solved by adding moderators, it is solved by rangebanning trolls. The actual problem of imageboards is that rules don't get enforced

I insist that >>712 is right.

>>712 so far i think the rules here have been enforced well enough. consistent enforcement becomes more of an issue as more people post but as long as i've been here things have been ran pretty well i'd say.