>>51517198It's my sincere belief that a place is only as good as the people who frequent it.
>Everywhere else is worse.I wouldn't say worse. Just a different flavour of hell. That you (and I) are here merely implies that we both value freedom of action a lot higher than enforced moral codes, even if there are not many people around to partake.
What has anonymity brought 4chan? It enables any one bad actor to ruin the place. That cannot be countered unless with actual moderation. Which is not happening, and that comes back to one constant: bad mods and admins make bad communities. It's also true that bad users also make bad communities.
When forums were more widespread, it was more cliquey. The LACK of anonymity makes it way too easy to ruin the place from the top down, with cliques and nepotism, as well as attention seeking from the users and such. However, you did have more civil communities with actual people trying to behave like genuine humans and actually enjoying things. Because you know, that's why the forums exist in the first place.
Both places were corrupted, and both the users and the moderators were to blame. But that's the one constant, being that people are people, and they don't change. The right mods with the right users make a place good, not so its system or its name. We could have had a good Reddit and we could have had a good 4chan at the same time but they were both turned into battlefields by forces outside of their spheres, and it was all too easy to capitalise on the basic lack of human decency that is too quickly found in groups. This place used to be created for free discussion. They have all the tools for free speech and to create with it the space they want to have, but they decide to smash it on the ground instead, because 'someone' told them it was what being 'funny' meant. Those entrusted to weed out the garden have no interest in it, and probably subscribe to the same edgy ideology of worshipping stupidity anyway.
