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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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[–] • 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.

[–] • 2 pts

Huh, well said.

I believe we're experiencing similar symptoms.

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I can understand that. Getting Voat suddenly shut down really changed some perspectives for me. It's good to not be attached. Inevitably, if the site is hostile to part of the user base, it's going to become hostile to every fringe outside the user base that is attracting new members at all.