shii410
I'm not black I'm O. J.
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I remember in 2020 graycels/newfags were genuinely not respected or taken seriously at all and they would get bullied and shit and any threads or opinions they posted were immediately disregarded. It was generally expected that the vast majority of them would ultimately leave the forum long before they could ever hope to be considered respectable members here
Nowadays pre-2021 users are a minority and hazing of new members is effectively non existent so people who joined two weeks ago expect to be taken seriously from the start. As a result the overall userbase quality has gone down a lot
Maintaining this kind of hazing and in-group is essential for any online community, if you look at any board on 4chan they’re naturally very stringent about this and even slight slip ups in vocabulary or etiquette are immediately met with intense scrutiny and everyone recognizing you as an outsider and telling you to fuck off. Without this factor the board inevitably gets overran by garbage
I don’t really know who to blame for this, it probably has nothing to do with the mods or anything and it ultimately comes down to the old users not gatekeeping hard enough
Nowadays pre-2021 users are a minority and hazing of new members is effectively non existent so people who joined two weeks ago expect to be taken seriously from the start. As a result the overall userbase quality has gone down a lot
Maintaining this kind of hazing and in-group is essential for any online community, if you look at any board on 4chan they’re naturally very stringent about this and even slight slip ups in vocabulary or etiquette are immediately met with intense scrutiny and everyone recognizing you as an outsider and telling you to fuck off. Without this factor the board inevitably gets overran by garbage
I don’t really know who to blame for this, it probably has nothing to do with the mods or anything and it ultimately comes down to the old users not gatekeeping hard enough