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A few months ago, hot posts would have 80 upvotes and about the same in comments. Now, a good one barely gets 40. I checked talk.lol. No one is there either. Did I miss something?

A few months ago, hot posts would have 80 upvotes and about the same in comments. Now, a good one barely gets 40. I checked talk.lol. No one is there either. Did I miss something?

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[–] • 3 pts

I almost never vote on anything anymore.

I get points docked for every little thing, so I endeavor to do fewer things.

I guess, in short, to answer your question: Kinda.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

Wow... of all the people to care about fake internet points, I'd have never guessed you to be one of them. I'll keep hanging around, doing what I normally do, as long as the admins don't make it plainly obvious that they don't want me here. When that day comes, I'll probably go back to lurking on /pol/ until something else pops up. Voat.xyz is a bit too fed-posty, for me; phuks looks abandoned, and frankly— at least for now, it seems like this is as good as it's gonna get. I REALLY wish I could get an account on the Gamer Uprising forum, as that would probably become my final-destination. We'll see; maybe I can get an invite some day.

[–] • 2 pts

Idunno, I don't like to think of it as caring about internet points, it's just obnoxious and kills the experience somehow. I check to see how my comments and posts are being percieved, and ... oh, I have 100 points less than I did... Okay, let's see what I did to get all these downvotes...

And then I see everything pretty upvoted with only very sporadic downvotes, and - Idunno, maybe I have become a pointsfag. But whatever, long story short, it's just not fun anymore, even though there are still cool people here. So it's not AS fun anymore, and I'm not GONE. So I guess I pretty much agree with you.

I've never gotten the hang of /pol/ . What a weird site. What's the real chan now? Is it up to 32chan yet?

[–] • 2 pts

8kun or og 4/pol/, pretty much. You gotta wade through tons of spam. Like, literally 90% of the content is immediately-dismissable bullshit. It's why I was never a fan of the format, but you can stay pretty tapped-in as long as you don't allow all the rampant fed-posting to turn you in to a schizophrenic. Haven't checked endchan, in a while: but they were starting to have problems, as well, last time I was there.

I sorta-agree on the points thing. I have noticed that since I've been losing hundreds of points, randomly, here-and-there, with no discernible cause: it's made me care waaaaay less about how my opinion is perceived, around here. In fact, I've entered a mental-state which I can only imagine is an incredibly watered-down version of what people on death-row might be feeling: I've resigned myself to knowing that this account will end one day, and it's sorta just made me stop caring. Whereas before, I would at least make some effort to be entertaining.