To be blunt and to the point: I've witnessed three splits of our community so far the last 8 years and I have detected a certain tendency I would like to reflect upon if that's okay with you guys.
First, and following thereunder, schematic representations:
>back on 8chan>OldBO starts banning pro-imperialist talking points surrounding Syria<RESULT: "split board" is createdAnalysis of the split (and sorry if this hurts your sentiments, but I'm way past of idgaf):
>main 8ch/leftypol quality of posts improve, we are witnessing way higher % of effort posts and so on, whileon the "split board:"
<idiotic appeals to "board direct democracy" are instated, promises of way looser moderation ensues<our worst community members of old start inhabiting the place – and I'm talking about post-work, post-left, pro-bookchin, anti-civ, etc. etc. "snowflake" types<the fucking splitting board gets overrun with "anti-transhumanist" (etc.) 8/pol/ spam in merely days<the board becomes desertedSecond, the bunkerchan split:
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