I'm getting too old for this shit.

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What do you predict would happen if Josh nuked the forums? The way I see it, the users who really cared about the site would be relegated to sparse discord servers (similar to what happened with imageboards) where they would larp and reminisce about the good old days. It’s a sad outcome, but a probable one.

Though most people such as myself aren’t part of any KF discord, nor have made connections with fellow users, so we’ll just have to retire from this internet drama bullshit. It’s something I’ve took an unhealthy interest in for a while, and I’d be kind of glad to see it disappear. Then I could get another hobby.
 
While I'm not old guard by any means (browsed but never signed up for years), I still felt rather disillusioned with the site by much of the board's response with the whole Section 230 thing, I can only imagine how fucking disappointing it would be watching it from Null's perspective.
I hate to say, I think that more then anything has shown the a rotation of the userbase, with many newer users being not of the old mindsets.
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Although there were some people that wanted 230 gone to own twitter, most people in the thread were either telling null to stop being a faggot and wait to see what happens before throwing a fit or internet lawyers that dont know what the fuck they are talkint about
 
Although there were some people that wanted 230 gone to own twitter, most people in the thread were either telling null to stop being a faggot and wait to see what happens before throwing a fit or internet lawyers that dont know what the fuck they are talkint about
Seems to me that he's acting just like spoony.
 
Free speech is still very important. I have vocally and publically started rallying for free speech (including unpopular topic's right of free speech) because of this forum. Please please please don't think what you are doing is in vain or not encouraging others.
I think free speech is of itself a shallow cause, but it matters. The enemy is that category 'hate speech.' This place is a haven for wrong thinking, or at least an effort at this. Anyhow, any Slavs or Serbs or whoever should try find a tradwife for Null.

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That points to another issue: The internet in general has become very un-fun in recent months. Having fun online is difficult when everywhere you look, everybody is screaming for blood and shouting empty, emotionally-charged slogans at each other, seeking to rile each other up and grow their personal mobs. The best thing I've been able to do for my emotional state lately is control my inputs. Something Awful and ResetERA's insane userbases don't make me laugh anymore; they just make me angry. The same goes for every other place where I once sought amusement. This shit is neither as fun nor as funny as it used to be, and the time might be coming to start my escape tunnel.

I still think Something Awful's user base is pretty funny.

I think I came here for the same reason as you, just looking for a general discussion board similar to Something Awful circa 2000 or so to around 2007 or 2008 where you could mock retarded shit while generally discussing stuff, but I guess that's never what it was intended to be.
 
I've come to believe that democracy only works, and freedom is only worthwhile, when the majority of the people are properly educated and morally grounded.
Exactly what the founding fathers believed. People ultimately get the government they deserve.

I totally feel you, Null. The internet and really the world at large has changed for the worse in a staggeringly short amount of time. I do hold some hope but I understand people who feel it's the end. Old internet culture is on a thread at this point and lolcows are not some special phenomenon anymore since social media has became omnipresent. Everyone uses their real identity and overshares the most inane crap and then John was a lolcow. Will be disappointing to see the site go whenever the day comes, but ultimately your own life and well being comes before our humble New Zealand dairy making forum. And honestly you do at least need to step away for a while and do some blackjack and hookers Jersh tbqh fam.
 
I genuinely don't understand what people mean by "politics have invaded this site." Where? A&H? A board you can just avoid if you really hated political discussions that much? Most posts with jarring political views in them get neg-rated to shit anyway, regardless of the political leaning presented in the post. In the rare case that you do get someone sperging about that shit when the discussion didn't call for it, it takes two seconds for a mod to give a warning, and two seconds to give them a threadban if they continue. I also think that users need to learn to just ignore them instead of bitching about it and contributing to the thread derailing, which is in part a big reason why most users would sperg in the first place. They think it's funny and they love the negative attention. Other users are new and don't understand that this isn't a political site, so that would give them the memo that "this is not the place to discuss the jewish question." All else, people just need to stop being so sensitive and move on. One obvious shitpost does not hurt the integrity of a 300 page thread (like seriously, some of you faggots need to grow a god damn spine).

Oh, and congratulations on realizing that making babies is the only real purpose we have on this cold cruel earth. I wish you luck and hope you find an adequate partner to get with. Just make sure you get your financial situation in order first before you do so. That will make all the difference between being happy 10 years down the line and wanting to swallow lead. Do what you can to achieve that, but if you care about the site, don't completely abandon it. Get away from it for a while, but check up on it every now and then to make sure shit isn't complete chaos, or worse, oppressive.

End note, I'm still having fun with this site and want to continue having fun. There's nowhere else that I can say the same. Keep things going just the way they are and you're good.

I think the issue is that politics bleeds into everything else.

I came here for the Weeb Wars stuff and we have a guy in there that would drop the same monologue about "SJW's and mental illness" every time some one asked about "those people." Perfectly smart, great guy, just I came to dread whenever someone asked about "SJW's" because it would mean that the monologue was coming.

You can ignore it until you start getting deja vu. Then it is just annoying.
 
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