>>28477099Because it would be better to gain one hundred and keep one hundred. The other thousand can be converted another day, another time, when their interest is more genuine than mere bandwagoning.
It's not like anything will happen to Serperior, after all. The superior serpent will persist forever in the hearts of its followers. A hundred thousand years into the future, when human society is so unrecognizable that it would drive you mad if you tried to understand it at this point in time, Serperior will still exist because it will still exist in the hearts and minds of its followers. It will exist as long as people want it to exist, and essentially inoculating people against it by having them become bored with it far too early is a sin.
Maybe you don't understand what I mean, and that's fine. Maybe you don't agree instead, and that's fine too. But all that I've seen leads me to believe that letting something you love slowly worm its way into people until they love it just as much as you do is better than an explosive but fragile expansion of interest.
