I've noticed a stark quality shift in threads here on /pol/ in the last year, especially in the last several months.
A good chunk of threads in the catalog are "Ask /pol/" threads, of which are based on trivial, non-politics related topics with the rest being bait threads, then there's the slew of "/pol/ BTFO" bait threads that add absolutely nothing, then you have the the rest of threads, which just go over tired, worn-out subjects and are are poorly structured.
To top it all off, the subject field is seldom used anymore, which is definitely how out can tell how many newfags have flooded the board.
To be quite honest, I know I'm not the only one noticing this,and it's only getting worse and worse as the days pass.
Now I'm even seeing some outright admitting they frequent reddit. This is quite worrisome.
>inb4 short/one-word/image replies and/or cancerous memes
>inb4 "[board] has always been shit" excuse used by unintegrated newfags
OP can't >in b4, newfag.
:^)
>>74412615
Trumplets are to blame. They attracted alot of retarded racists and rednecks.
I miss old pol. Xenophobic, but pragmatic.
Now its "nigger this", "jews that", "muh degeneracy".
Pathetic.
Did anyone notice all the crusade threads are gone? Now it's anti Christian fedora posters in every thread
>>74413612
Oh, it's always been "nigger this", "jews that", "muh degeneracy," but newfags see it as a meme and just LARP like they actually know what they're talking about.
Then, many knew the facts and had arguments (albeit, slightly half-baked) to back up their blatant assertions.
Now it's just meaningless remarks, as we're being filled with redditors and newfags who have absolutely no clue.
>>74412615
>posting thread about the state of pol
newfags out
>>74413860
Yeah you can thank the reddit refugees for that.
>>74412615
>HMMMMMM.....
>what did he mean by this
>/pol/ BTFO
>prove wrong
>really makes you think, huh
>>74414020
wow...really makes you think
>>74412615
Its a mix of shitposting, b8 threads, new fags trying to become Ebin meme lords turning this into new /b/ and of course that high quality shilling
Hopefully it'll get better after the election is over
>>74414148
checkmate
>>74413860
If I recall a while back a strawpoll was done on the religious beliefs of /pol/ and it was ~60% religious to some extent. Another one, if I recall right, was posted about 2 months ago, with a staggering 70% being irreligious of some type.
Definitely redditors.
>>74413942
Oh please, you probably weren't even here when the flag options existed.
>>74414216
I miss being able to select the pirate flag.
>>74412615
Slow news. I don't blame Trump I blame that there is absolutely nothing interesting going on right now.
>>74414212
NOT AN ARGUMENT
Welcome to your first /pol/ during election cycle babby
>>74414216
I hate that posting something about being a Christian like wanting women to dress modestly gets met with responses like "LOL ACHMED XD"
It's not even shitposting at this point it's just retarded and sadly I think they're serious
Blame Reddit cross traffic. Better yet blame the absentee moderators who let this shit slide
>>74412615
there are highs and lows in the market goyim it is election season after all
>>74414020
Yep, its the same 4 threads over and over again
>>74414433
The sticky just appears to be overly ignored and pushed to the side.
>>74414390
This too Bongo's second run was shitpost heaven
>>74412615
I agree but hey have you ever noticed in the old planet of the apes movies all the light skinned monkeys are really smart and the dark skinned ones are stupid grunts
>>74414699
>thread hijack attempt
Literally /b/-tier
>>74412615
>To top it all off, the subject field is seldom used anymore, which is definitely how out can tell how many newfags have flooded the board.
While I agree the quality of this board is poor that is an untrue statement.
>>74412615
I've been coming here for four or five months now, and even I can see that it is shittier than it first was.
>>74413612
This is how you spot newfags and shills. Pretending pol wasn't a straight up nazi storm front board for over 2 years, with a good section of libertarians and ancaps
>>74414020
Don't forget the worst one.
>How can white men even compete
I miss old /pol/, /news/
>>74415050
You mean /n/?
>>74412615
Mostly Trump, Hillary and Berniefags these days.
Post quality was far better back in the Zim Zam days and before.
I could post interesting articles or hell even big breaking news a few years ago and have big discussions. I stopped trying about six months ago. Post breaking news about trump, get no response. see same info a week later being passed around as a meme. This board has been going down since the 2012 election and moot killed off /pol for good last year.
>>74415276
Where else could we go?
>>74412615
Agreed, /pol/ has gone to absolute shit.
Only shitposts, memes, and baithreads get replies.
I've tried to have real political discussions here, it's a fucking waste of time.
I even offered to create a website with a /pol/-approved political quiz. The post got a single off-topic reply and then it archived.
It's not even a joke anymore to say reddit is a superior forum for politics.
>>74415276
There's a lot of shitposts, but there are also a ton of repeat threads. A lot of the articles being posted have already been rehashed twenty different times over the course of a day. One the elections are over and the board slows down a bit, we'll go back to more rational discussions. Hopefully.
>>74412615
We need more hitlerposting imo
>>74414020
these are the only ones I think are actually shills/bots
Notice how the OP never replies either
Some of them are troll threads though (as can be told by the flag, and the syrupniggers inability to resist coming back to his vomit)
>>74415152
This desu. Trumplets have shit the place up, and most of them came into /pol/ only recently. Someone posted a graph of the posts made daily for the past few years and you could see it nearly doubled between the 2016 election season started and last month.
These newcomers aren't actually interested in understanding politics or current events but in merely discussing them. Of course, the discussion isn't substantive, it just has to entertaining. Like Trump, they've lowered the level of the political conversation and they don't care to try to raise it because that would take effort to try to research things beyond the meme position of the day.
>>74415276
/pol/ harbor actually led to an exodus of most of the stormfags and assorted retards to 8/pol/, where they promptly shit up the place there and made it a stormfag/Trumplet echo chamber. So January 2015 /pol/ was alright imo.
>>74415765
Hopefully. This shit is just getting really tiresome. I just hope we don't become /tv/ 2.0
>>74415849
I'm actually shocked at the lack of National Socialists in the recent months. It just seems to now all be "Alt-Right," aka kids LARPing that they're right-wing
>>74412615
It's an election year. This always happens
>>74416023
I'm shocked by the lack of Pennsylvania posters.
>>74416023
I know m8, notsocs have quickly become the minority on /pol/. You even hint at unironically posting something hitler related and you just get stormfagged.
>>74414426
Nobody really gives a fuck about your religious views though, that's the thing. Religion is outdated as fuck, I can not believe in God and still be a good person. Sluts are gonna be Sluts, simple.
>>74416107
Fayette county here. Fuck you, lord of shit.
>>74415995
The fact that you say stormfaga means you're a Reddit transplant yourself. Only a sjw or shitskin would use that insult
>>74416023
>>74416210
There's always cripple chan. The posting is much slower though, and everyone is so wrapped up in conspiracies/jew blaming it's hard to actually discuss about much.
>>74416220
You're free to have your opinions and express them, that's why we're all here so we can have discussions in an environment that won't ban you because your opinion is different from the mods. But there's a different between fedora tipper shitposters and someone who's an atheist and doesn't like Christianity.
your post is okay you at least gave your opinion instead of just shitposting so you're contributing to the discussion.
>>74416326
I feel like everyone is autistic there, it's literally 90% Jew posting, every thread is about how some dude uncovered the secret plot made by the Jews and if you disagree with someone everyone will gang up on you. At least here there's a wide variety of beliefs /pol/ is actually really multicultural
>>74416023
It's because there were never many real neo-Nazis, only edgy retards without set political beliefs taking whatever sounded good to them. Just like how libertarians were a minority with a large meme following of people who barely understood the actual principles pre-2012-13. I expect "alt-right" to last about as long, give it three years and no one will give a shit about the label anymore because it will have set down roots and have actual principles and that's anathema to most "alt-righters" today.
>>74416316
Been here since 2013 fampai (4chan since 2007) and I've always hated stormfags. The very idea that I can't append -fag to a word to describe them, that they're somehow unique and above chan culture's affinity for attaching fag to everything is ridiculous. They always got so buttblasted over it too - but what do you expect when many of the hardcore neo-Nazi ideologues didn't have roots in this website anyway? That and their constant need to be taken super seriously on a website that routinely mocks anyone and everyone just made their arrogance all the more amusing.
t. classical liberalfag
In my opinion the addition of flags caused serious detriment to the quality of this board.
The only thing they do is ruin the discussion with ebin xD jokes or "RARE" spamming and encourage shitposting
Bring back optional flags at least
>>74416731
Optional flags will present the same exact problem, only now people will only pretend to be from Israel and shitpost out of boredom.
Unless you are talking about the optional flags that we used to have. Europoor, Amerifat, Gold Standard, Pirate, Rebel, JIDF, Texas and gaypride and I forget what else.
>>74416904
Maybe a better strategy is to optionally display either your legit flag, or no flag at all.
>>74414020
The problem is dummies keep responding to obvious b8 threads, i don't get it.
>>74416904
I mean the old optional flags
>>74416904
Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, and Anarchist if I recall?
>>74414663
I'm not gonna lie, It to me a year until I actually read the sticky fully.
>>74412615
>"Ask /pol/" threads
I believe a bot is posting these. It has a bunch of random topics in a file, and randomly selects one as a thread starter, by saying something along the lines of "what is /pol/ opinion on X".
I also believe the bot is bumping its threads with canned responses to the question. But it is aware which responses it made and which are genuine responses, and the genuine ones are datamined.
I assume it builds a profile of opinions and determines a way of pitting one side against the other, or alienating one side until they stop coming to /pol/ (as it did to libertarians with the "lolbertarian society" spam).
i also have noticed a number of threads asking for your birthday in clever ways. and of course there is the ever recurring iris scan thread...
this isn't just trolls, its the government.
>>74417107
Here they are.
>>74417313
maybe, maybe not. I have a few topics that I'd like to discuss from a /pol/ point of view, so I guess I'd look like a bot.
Double chans /pol/ is probably what you're looking for. But it's too fucking serious all the time for my tastes.
not really noticing anything
>>74414302
This is sort of true but there's money going into making /pol/ shit that increases every month
>>74417561
t.bigblack dingus poster
>>74417561
I'm actually talking about that in another thread. After /pol/harbor everyone that wanted to seriously discuss politics went there and the shitposters stayed here.
But it split up our user base. We lost all of our serious posters, but they lost their sense of fun. It is way too serious over there, to the point where they can filter out individual posters and have no shame in telling people they are filtered because they disagree with them. On the flipside this board is just infested with nothing but shitposting.
If both boards could be reunited into one community again it would be great.
>>74412615
make some decent threads then. by the way, declaring what websites other people can and cant use is retarded.
>>74418175
Decent threads get ignored. Believe me, I've tried it.
>worrisome
The fucking infinity bunker has turned to SHIT too. Maybe that is all MOOTfaggot is foing at Jewgle.
It annoys me how many revise /pol/'s history, portraying it as "libertarian".
>>74418596
Those same shillls will say it was never pro-hitler
completely denying fuhrer fridays and the eradication of furries on /b/ (and stuff like that) which lead to /pol/'s creation
>>74418100
Only way that can realistically happen is if 8/pol/ and 8gag as a whole is destroyed.
>>74412615
>ask /pol/
>/pol/ BTFO
and..
>inb4 newfags
>quality of /pol/
stopped reading there
>UK
>White
PICK ONE
UK BTFO
Another thing I have noticed is that people from here will raid whatever you post a link to. I don't even want to mention what I used to link to, for fear of flooding it with more unwanted faggots, but basically I started to see the same sorts of nonsense spammed there that was spammed here after I made threads here. As a result, I stopped linking to anything of value on /pol/. In my threads, you have to be smart enough to find the source on your own now.
This is now a crusader's thread
>>74419145
But you still commented. Very nice.
>>74419179
>>74419240
Fuck off, thread derailers.
Actual proof of newfaggotry, right here.
>>74412615
/pol/ went in to decline after Christopher Dorner
>>74417229
>he read the sticky.
AWOOOOOOOOO?
AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?
Haha look how I'm supporting Trump by spamming awoo in every thread guys :^)
>>74419385
You're doing it champ
meme magic is real
we'll meme our candidate to the presidency xxxxDDDDD
>>74412615
/b/ and /r9k/ are under constant shitposting attacks from the trannies and ponyfuckers so they've been coming here for a sense of normalcy. Look at half the threads up right now (including this one) not news or politics.
>>74412615
I think the problem is as this site in general and /pol/ become increasingly popular faggots come over here thinking "hurr durr, the right wings hang out here lets shitpost and SJW virtue signal to show them how wrong they are", people come here just to rile each other up and waste time.
Guys, I'm scared
>bunch of kikes setup a trump subreddit
>it grows quickly
>they constantly link to /pol/
>milo does an article on the chans and /pol/ in particular
>some faggot mentions /pol/ on msm
>people wonder why board quality has gone down
>>74412615
>>74412615
we got famous
therefore a ton of newfags arrived to stop our shitlording ways
we will redpill them, as we have always done
stand fast, hold your ground, it's a target rich environment!
>>74413612
>I miss old pol. Xenophobic, but pragmatic.
This.
I've noticed the education level go down exponentially as well. Only yesterday we had an American flag surprised to learn that Alaska used to be Russian.
I like racism but I also like elitism.
The rednecks are ruining the place.
>>74412615
4chan has always been shit. What the fuck are you fags bitching about?
>>74412615
The mods are pure shit.
That's all there is to it.
>>74421717
It's hopefully just the decline of /b/ and American elections. The elections will leave but /b/'s decline has left a hole in 4chan's meme culture that'll be filled by one board or another. Unfortunately /pol/ is looking like it'll be /b/'s succesor.
>>74412615
Trump ruined 4chan and the Republican Party, OP.
>>74421717
>making fun of rednecks
Nice try brown neck
>>74413860
As it should be.
>"""Salvation is of the Jews"""
Cuck
>>74423212
Why does Canada suck so much at shitposting?
Is it the frog genes?
It's kinda embarrassing to watch.
>>74424210
>Argentina
>country of mixed Arab, Indian and Negro genes
I guess that is why you still think you are white...
>>74412615
the trumplets made an unholy alliance with plebbit.
>>74416107
Lancaster, fuck you guy.
>>74425138
there are no good outcomes from it. either their stupid donald board remains and redditors are constantly funneled here or it gets shut down and /pol/ gets flooded.
/pol/ gets popular during election years therefore it attracts a lot of new people who don't have a strong grasp of what our culture is truly like. There's nothing that can be done about it other than trying to integrate the newfags.
>Canadian who shit posts OBANGO BEST PRESIDENT EVER THREAD
>Race-mixing with Asians
>r9k level tier of discussing women which isn't even politics
>FUCKING KEK THREADS
Fucking shut this board down already
It's like a rabid dog, all that's left of what it used to be
Last quality discussion I had was when rand paul joined the race
>>74412615
>>>74427113
Here, the kind of thread you're asking for.
For anyone in here too busy being nostalgic to follow the link:
>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/18/de-blasio-fine-businesses-wrong-gender-pronouns/
>Greeting customers as “Mr.” or “Mrs.” — or even not using the pronoun “ze” or “zir” — could prove costly for New York City businesses under rules drafted by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s bureaucrats.
>The Gotham mayor’s Commission on Human Rights says entities that fail to address customers by their preferred gender pronouns and titles are in violation of the law and could be subject to penalties of up to $250,000.
http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/contact-the-mayor.page
http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/contact-the-mayor.page
http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/contact-the-mayor.page
Ten years ago, tranny faggots were a joke like in pic related. Now their insanity is rapidly gaining traction.
If you don't do something about it, it WILL spread, because lefties are pushing for this shit to be accepted Americawide all the time, every day.
>>74414433
are you even reporting shit?
I've noticed a load of posts get deleted after I report
they can't delte/ban if they don't know about it
>>74419351
you never read the sticky? what a grade K moran
>>74417229
better late than never
>>74417561
not enough enemies there, at least here you have leftards to refute
>>74418100
>We lost all of our serious posters
none of them come here at all?
many posters came back to troll the tards
>>74412615
Quality always goes down during elections. Just wait until summer fags leave /b/ and come here in a few weeks friend. The shit storm just started
>>74415550
A political discussion? There is only one political system, there has only ever been one political system:
>People with money pay people with guns to take money from everyone else.
What exactly do you hope to discuss? Over thousands of years small progressive victories by the common man have been won against the rich man, and now in first world countries he is allowed to keep part of his labour and live a comfortable but relatively debt ridden and insecure life.
Trumps a fascist, Hillary is a neo-con, Bernie is a communist. You have 3 terrible characters running for President, but it doesn't matter, because when push comes to shove they will bend to the money men or they will get killed.
Stop any random person on the street going about their day and ask them, is politics a game or is it actually changing the world for the better? They will tell you of course it's a game, a scam, a con. Nobody is looking out for you, the world is filled with people all out for themselves, the sooner you learn that, the sooner you will take a practical view towards your education and career, that of your wife's and your future children.
Poorly educated children care about politics and elections. Well educated men care about money.
It's not even November yet baby.
Prepare your anus
>>74412921
first post
best post
>>74412615
Leave than faggot
If you are worried that your safe space has been violated fuck off back to tumblr you dumb piece of shit
>>74429746
Reading the stick decreases MM by 5. Not worth it.
>>74414020
Filter is your friend.
You've done most of the work already.
>reddit refugees
>summer is approaching
Yeah, its bound to be shit without happenings to suck everyone into.
>>74431429
this
