>>7595736Pre-election /pol/ was certainly a separate beast altogether. Much less srs bsns, much more lax moderation-- the type of threads that get swept here to /bant/ were permissible-- the general attitude of the board was insular as opposed to the gay ops shit and causefagging it would do later. Yeah, a chunk of pre-election /pol/ was full of those autists with the infographs and those stormfag colonists, but there was still some air of tongue-in-cheekness to the whole board.
I left /pol/ for good after November 2016 out of waning interest because it was clear as day with the board's new speed, its ballooned newfag population from reddit, /b/, and twitter, and its newly composed moralfagging-shitposting mix that it wouldn't ever return to when it was just a place where you could talk current events chillely and could have truly comfy happening threads that weren't zooming at the speed of light, 90% full of low-quality reaction posts.
