Kiwi Farms' User Count is on the Decline - (and why that's a good thing)

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There's a delicate balance of encouraging site growth and gatekeeping that most communities can never strike. Gatekeeping is absolutely necessary. No gatekeeping gets you Reddit. But if you gatekeep too hard, well there's a million dead forums and imageboards out there as testament to how that can go. I don't have a solution, if anyone does it's Null. Temporarily closing registrations when shit hits the fan seems to work okay, although it's more reactive than proactive.

Outside of the relevant threads, the 2022 retard influx wasn't that noticeable - most of the threads I follow didn't change at all. Would those summer 2022 tourists have spread to the rest of the site? Will they? Maybe a few, but I feel moderation on this site both by the actual mods and by users self-policing (not to be confused with backseat moderating) is good enough to make most of those retards fall in line and/or get that ass banned.

As long as the community that is there is dedicated, I don't mind the retards fucking off. So what if it lowers our numbers a bit? Quality over quantity. If you want to know what quantity gets you, take a look at you-know-who's thread.

Overall I'm optimistic - I always am. Being a pessimist is a real drag. Helps I don't have much skin in this game, although it'd be a real shame if the site I use to call Patrick S. Tomlinson fat were to go away.
 
The alternative is becoming a completly unworkable shithole like 4chan. Given the choice trannies would have absolutely gone with infiltration over DDOSing, there's scope for recovery from their script kiddy seething, 4chan on the other hand is done. Less activity but higher quality content is better than more activity and shit content. If they took the nuclear bomb approach with us, it was open borders for 4chan. I think the latter is far more devastating.
 
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Blaming the newfags is always tempting, and in this instance there are assuredly infiltrators aplenty just waiting for the opportunity to log on and post KILL KEFFALS FOR REAL KIWIFARMS SEIG HEIL! to screenshot and email to the news. But now the damage they can easily do has already been done. As long as the core zeitgeist of the forums is to mock people who come in and post dumb shit, I don't think there's a danger of becoming Reddit or 4chan.
 
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I am holding out hope that Kiwifarms will not follow the pattern of SomethingAwful just cause we still have the ability to say "fuck off retard" to any one acting up.

That and Null is becoming the the one man dev shop expert on keeping a site going through DDOS/webserver config, etc instead of drowning in pills and booze.
 
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Illuminati Order Official said:
I just want to have fun on the Internet.
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But we are having fun.
There were like 3-4K users online.
The troon threads are open.
The troon machinations were crushed by a single man in just a week or two.
The site is nearly at 100% functionality, minus the irrelevant chat and maybe 1-2 hiccups/day as the troondroids are DDoSing like mad.
We are having fun, and winning, as we should, because we are in the right.
 
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Turns out that the website being 404'd for the better half of a month and a mass password reset results in a dip in activity. Better invest in Kiwicoin™ now before the value goes back up.
 
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AgendaPoster said:
We are having fun, and winning, as we should, because we are in the right.
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I meant I have more fun watching Keffie and Destiny fighting or our adversaries turning on each other than I had when Keffie was trying to take us down. The site wasn't working properly and it provoked some people to at least consider pozing negholes - neither of those is fun.
 
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I meant I have more fun watching Keffie and Destiny fighting or our adversaries turning on each other than I had when Keffie was trying to take us down. The site wasn't working properly and it provoked some people to at least consider pozing negholes - neither of those is fun.
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There is no avoiding conflict on the path of "fun", because our fun is insanely corrosive towards shitlib sacred cows and recent social norms. It's deconstruction, from the right, even if you consider it political sperging.
So winning is necessary to have conflict resolution.
Cheers and to as many wins as possible!:drink:
 
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