this is the single busiest thread on the site, but the chat we had for politisperging was never used. why is that?
I got bullied in sneed chat for having too many posts for such a new account. It's because I didn't find sneed chat until later, but one of the first things I did find was the beginning of USPG2. Sometimes when someone posts a stream of something like a press conference the thread would basically turn into a live chat, perhaps a little bit slower and slightly higher-content messages. When events slowed down, you'd get little threads of people talking about stuff like Byzantine history, or recent Ukrainian history; the Ukraine stuff got swept, the Byzantine stuff didn't.
So the thread is acting like a slow-moving, politics-themed genchat with a few specific topic bans. Which is very comfy and a nice experience while you're keeping up with it, probably better than an actual chat. It's just a shame that it makes the thread completely fucking unusable in retrospect. Sometime during the second week of his presidency, Trump said he would be talking about the 2020 election the following Monday, specifically about Georgia. He didn't follow up on this, and I wanted to find the original statement, probably on Truth. Google was absolutely no help. I know that it was posted in this thread because that's where I saw it, it's probably even archived, but I'd have to comb through dozens of pages to find it, and I didn't feel like putting in the work.
I don't know that this thread is wrong or needs fixing; it's not perfect, but it's a special kind of thing created from a unique confluence of events and technology that wasn't quite intended for the usage. Case in point, I've seen people talking about optimizing your post number mod 20 to increase the odds people read your shit when there's too many pages to keep up with and they start skipping through. It was a unique experience the first few weeks, I've completely given up trying to keep up and just dip in randomly. More advanced thread search tools might help make the thousands of pages any sort of useful archive. I also wonder whether we're even going to make it to midterms before the thread starts bugging out and needs to be split for technical reasons.
Shouts out to spiritofamermaid who reads absolutely every post; when you see this one, do me a favor and give me a big tasty puzzle piece.
