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Hello everyone, Clint here. I'd like to talk about the events of the past few
days, but only as it relates to what I see as the future of the room. And that
is that I don't see the room having much of a future under the current
moderation. The main issue being, as I've said many times, that they keep
modchat on all the time, which directly affects the flow of new users into the
room. It's very simple. It's the concept of the barrier of entry that they
can't seem to grasp. And all it is is them abdicating their responsibilities as
moderators, their job, one of them, is to "fagcheck", and keeping modchat on
all the time enables them to vacate this responsibility and it stunts the
growth of the room. And, with most things, in fact, 99% of the time, if
something isn't growing, it's decaying. And I think this is definitely the case
with the room if you've just watched the user list. We do have games, the
release of new games, to drive traffic to showderp, but showderp has survived
the release of, I want to say two titles at this point and we kind of
stagnated, I don't think that we can rely on the release of new games alone to
1. prevent the users of the room from stagnating, and 2. just to prevent the
room from dying altogether from the lack of users. So, and one of the problems
is that we all come from 4chan, right. We all come from 4chan with this
attitude of "I'm gonna say what I want to say", and that's healthy. That's
good. But the problem comes when you've got egos rubbing up against each other,
and between normal users this wouldn't really be an issue. But between
moderators, when moderators let their ego get in the way of their job, then
you've got an issue. Then you've got instances such as me being banned, and
there was a semi-legitimate reason for me being banned, of course. I won't deny
that I did leak the room, but I view that as an act of civil disobedience, as I
said.
