The same reason anyone ever engaged with it to begin with, trying to cling to what facepunch used to be and ignoring the cesspool its become.
It's a soulless husk of people desperately trying to relive Facepunch's glory days and refusing to let the past die. Knockout can pretend to be Facepunch as much as it wants, but it was never Facepunch, and it will never be.
There's literally no word that isn't bannable anymore. Good job, Knockout.
Considering the code is open-source, there's nothing stopping anyone from creating a new forum.
as is typical troon theatrics
To be fair when the mod team was still full of OGs you could still be banned for ratings, but that was when the tranguard was first starting to emerge.
Throwback to when the main developer of Hammer++ got forced to reply to a news thread he rated "winner" only to be perma banned afterwards. That kinda reminds me how much of a low point that incident was until I realized all of KO's history is basically low points.
It still boggles my mind as to how FP used to have admins that could do the arbitrary ban dynamic without coming off as hypersensitive cunts that demand blood for the smallest of slights. The users just took the bans in stride, but the culture was still mostly that of a semi-serious forum where people could have banter with each other all ran by a mod team that understood how to keep everything cool.
FP had a typical frat house culture. Maybe exaggerated because Garry was a cunt from Britain and that's how British are (were?) However, people liked it, and Garry pointed out in one of his farewell posts that the initial influx of people seemed to be drawn to the place exactly for its harsh but fair-in-a-juvenile-way moderation. It's a cliché, but the introduction of women, even in an aesthetic form, destroys male spaces like that. I remember how it went down: first FP started having guys with anime loli avatars and people tolerated it, then sob threads started appearing gathering those guys, and now here we are where you have to submit to mental busybodies. I'm pretty sure KO statistically doesn't have any females, but boy do we have imposters who try hard to be bitches. I'm not sure what to make of it. I don't feel like riling up against empathy or banning anime is the way to go. But I recall hearing that ancient Greeks despised men who indulged in the sin of androgyny because they basically thought they were cheaters who were trying to acquire the benefits of both sexes while avoiding the responsibilities of those sexes, and boy does that sound right on the money with these characters.
