/ot/ - Off-topic

Hello Saya, nice you see you're back. Have a seat while I prepare the tea. Old black tea with 2 spoons of sugar was it, right?
Seisatsu is already coming, he should be here soon.

This one is not that bad.

Yeah it's still better here. I liked lainchan too for a while but all the toxic political ramblings and general hostility killed off the vibe for me.

>>20442
The politics drove me away from Lain too. Not how they usually do though, but because namefag mods were locking slightly political threads leaving a wall of text 'disprooving' the op and other posters, abusing their power to get the last word and push their particular idealogue. Have never seen that on any imageboard before and it leaves me to believe some of the mods were hired not because they were native IB users with a desire to help, but instead just clique members of whatever discord/irc the head staff were part of. Big assumption but it does come up a bit in other discussion site formats.

>>20443
>Have never seen that on any imageboard before and it leaves me to believe some of the mods were hired not because they were native IB users with a desire to help, but instead just clique members of whatever discord/irc the head staff were part of
420chan has been like what you describe for at least a decade, i'm sure most sites end up like that.
if the people on super exclusive irc channels were really as clever as they think they are then there would be great masses of wonderful genius amusing original content spilling out of the algonquin round table irc channels, but there never is. it takes exactly 0 creativity or brains to run an imageboard, just follow the instructions in the manual, nevertheless those people who manage to rtfm and run imageboard server software on the interrbutt in real irl life always also credit themselves as having accomplished something when the end users of "their" board come up with something novel and worth looking at.
the fact is that if you want to make a website and have other people generate all the significant content on that site then thats like admitting you really have nothing at all to say.

>>20447
The second part is pretty harsh, I'm pretty sure that at least when someone starts such a project they don't treat it like that. With time though it surely changes.

>>20443
Moderation on that board bothered me a bit too. Seen too many threads there with moderator comments disapproving of the format or length of the OP. It gave those threads a very uncomfortable atmosphere.

I don't lurk that site enough to tell if that is still going on tho.