Will /pol/ ever stop growing? It's already faster than /v/. It will soon surpass /b/ at one point. Just where are they getting so many new users from?
>>353303
People being redpilled from the shitskin hordes invading and disrespecting our land.
Anti-/pol/ is becoming an even tinier minority, which is why they've sook refuge on /qa/.
>>353305
>"Redpilled"
>in a board that's 99% shitposting and baiting
Kek.
/pol/ is just an edgier /b/ at this point. Maybe a lot of those new users are /b/ kids getting bored of /b/ and migrating to /pol/.
>>353303
t would help quality if HIro made a /consp/iracy board. I think you would find if rigorous poling was conducted that /pol/ and /x/ would agree on this. Tinfoilfags already post here but aren't truly welcome on any board at this point. /pol/ sends them to /x/ and /x/ sends them back.
>>353323
It.* polling*; damn keyboard
>faster than /v/
Citation needed.
>>353338
Not aware of any /v/ archive at the moment, but threads usually expire faster on /pol/ than /v/ now.
>>353355
/v/ was picked up by a couple of other archivers after desu let /r9k/ in despite causing the moe crash and kicked /v/ out.
The Paris attack is what's driving /pol/'s insane numbers right now judging by the image, once the spike goes down it'll be slower than /v/. It doesn't seem to be much faster than /v/ at the moment either, about the same speed.
>>353364
>The Paris attack is what's driving /pol/'s insane numbers right now
And what about the gradual and ongoing rise since January?
>>353303
/pol/ has taken /b/'s throne since 2014.
>>353303
>election year coming up
>pol loses their shit spamming HAPPENING at the tiniest fart of news and the Paris attacks happened
As was said it'll probably die down sooner or later. Especially if Hiro goes through with a news board; /pol/ simply adopted the topic unto itself and few things generate more buzz than it.
>>353303
For the new users question, quite possibly literally leddit because their own /pol/-like places got nuked.
>>353365
It could be any number of things.
Maybe 4chan just got too much attention last year which caused the site to steadily gain users as a whole. Maybe people really are sick of media and want to resort to /pol/'s sources of information. Maybe more people want a board where they get to say nigger and shitskin constantly on the internet.
It's not like any of the major boards are in danger of doing something stupid at the moment, so I don't see what the problem is even if /pol/ is dumb as fuck. /pol/ is too enthralled with the media frenzy after the Paris attacks, /v/'s remaining sense of community got destroyed after GG and is now a walking bloated corpse unless something changes, /b/ is /b/, and /a/ is more reclusive as a site presence than ever before.
>moot wanted the activist cancer out of his website
>was too much of a pussy to delete /pol/ before he left and now the damage done is irreparable
Damn.
>>353373
/v/ is faster and /b/ is usually two to three times faster than /v/. There's no risk at all of anyone ever taking /b/'s throne as far as PPM goes. /pol/ is solid in it's spot at 4th fastest board and isn't looking to move any time soon.
>>353376
He clearly hated the shit out /pol/ at that point but was probably more concerned about the shitstorm killing the board would cause to the rest of the site.
His biggest mistake was bringing that board back in the first place, though, and not axing two+ years ago when it was already apparent it was exactly what he was afraid it was going to turn out to be.
>>353377
The issue is it's called the politics board (essentially) but it actually functions more like a /b/ in that they talk about literally just about fucking everything under the sun there. And it's all allowed seemingly.
Part of the crux of that is that talks about racism etc do factor into political discussion a lot, however the way /pol/ does it is just use this real connection as a masquerade to talk about whatever they want with just about any subject, because most things period have some political angle/intersection somewhere down the line.
Imo the board could use streamlining to make it actually strictly about politics and less about standalone subjects that -may- crop up in politics but are not really political in nature the way they're talked about in those threads.
>>353373
https://4ch.be/v/statistics/population/
It looks like /pol/ is still a bit bigger in terms of population right now though. And the PPH could be just due to timezone differences. A lot of Yuros post on /pol/.
>>353383
I've never understood how FoolFukka supposes to calculate population. Post rate and thread rate is pretty straightforward, population significantly less so.
>>353384
I think it's more like a testing/inferred function as generally those extrapolations all look like the post rate.
Post rate in of itself is also not the end-all-be-all because it doesn't show how many lurkers there are. On some boards (generally the topical ones) people might commonly lurk for days without saying anything and essentially are invisible to archives. On a board like /pol/ where literally every other post can be something extremely inflammatory it can be hard to flip through the place for even ten seconds before feeling compelled to respond to something; half the board is utter flame bait to opposing political sides.
/v/ is kind of similar because console wars, console vs PC etc act as eternal 24/7 flame bait. /a/ may be bigger than it seems on archives because its users seem to be calmer most of the time and only speak up when really compelled to, for example its activity spiked hugely (maybe 25-30% larger) during the so-called nipplemod fiasco but then calmed down instantly once Hiro cleared it up. This would also explain why it seems /a/ users are fucking everywhere on other boards if you actually call out to them, which seems to surprise some newfags thinking it's an intentional invasion or something.
>>353394
>Post rate in of itself is also not the end-all-be-all because it doesn't show how many lurkers there are.
That's my point actually. There's no real way to calculate population (with or without lurkers) in any meaningful way, it's not really a useful guide for anything unless 4chan released stats as well and the function were fine tuned into a predictive model based on the information actually obtainable. But if 4chan released stats, it wouldn't be needed in the first place. Without that fine tuning, it seems little more than a guess.
/pol/ is the last bastion of old 4chan since /b/ is only for porn now. A lot of people from /b/ migrated there.
>>353401
It seems 4chan has been gathering unique IP stats for a long time but moot didn't ever release them publicly.
It makes sense imo as directly ranking the boards in an unambiguous way could give an inflated ego to them and increase hostility between the fastest boards; look at how some /pol/ users already act like they own the rest of the site now.
If anything we need less quantification of post stats to make people not really give a shit about who's bigger, but rather who's a better user environment, i.e who has happier users. /b/ is the biggest board by far but no one claims it's the best one, or has dominion over dictating what overall 4chan policies should be. /v/ is 2nd or 3rd but it's clear many of its users are not happy with the place at all. The highest-quality boards should set the examples for what to work towards, regardless of size. Defining "quality" is also subjective though so I won't even delve into that, but you guys get the point.
>>353394
There are some boards on cripplechan that only have around 120 active users yet they can go above 500 PPH at times. On 4chan, I think the only one that's comparable is /mlp/. It's population is pretty small but the board is damn fast because of all the constant circlejerking threads.
>>353412
>It seems 4chan has been gathering unique IP stats for a long time but moot didn't ever release them publicly
Wouldn't that be integral to the way 4chan bans proxy services and keeps an extensive database of them?
People are waking up
>>353422
I think /vg/ is in big part a collection of a bunch of those little personal-chatroom-type atmospheres. /mlp/ is perhaps like a nano-/vg/ in that aspect as you said, only all about ponies and autistic fanfics instead.
Personally I feel such a discourse is very much not reflective of how 4chan is meant to be used/experienced. Coming back to the same generals and same couple of people day after day after day.. what even is the point of doing it here then instead of on a forum, where they wouldn't have to contrive workaround solutions (constantly referring archives and/or off-site text dumps like pastebins) just to keep themselves going.
>>353323
>/consp/iracy board
>not /tin/ - Conspiracies
>>353432
They think the CIA COINTELPRO guys invented that word to discredit them or something. I forget the exact reason but the tl;dr is the word 'tinfoil' seems to trigger them.
They also leak into boards like /k/ and /int/ sometimes depending on happenings. If they had their own board it would contain them and make /x/ truly paranormal.
>>353303
People waking up from the "multiculturalism" bullshit they've been fed. All the terrorist attacks are hard red pills to swallow.
People want answers and you will find the truth on /pol/
>>353449
>I think it just means posts per day.
Then it's an incredibly stupid label.
>>353453
Like was said earlier in the thread, it doesn't really mean population at all, more like it's pretending to know but it can't account for lurkers (which can actually be a fuckton of people). All archives do is count how many posts are being made per X time point. This is informative but nowhere near an accurate population meter because so many things influence how often (or not) people talk on different boards. One real chatterbox of a person makes more noise on archives than a million lurkers.
>>353456
That's irrelevant. PPD is in no way equatable to the label 'population' no matter how you look at it. I was specifically commenting on if that were the case. It would be stupid if they called it that. If it's pseudo-generation meant to represent number of users then it makes sense as a label at least.
>>353303
/pol/ speeds up by a considerable margin during big elections and HAPPENINGS, and it's nothing but happening all the way down from here on out.
I look forward to /news/ opening up to help clear the air and provide lebensraum.
>>353380
moot never stopped liking /pol/, he just wanted activists out.
>>353461
I'm referring to how there is a "population" option under the stats tab in the archives but it actually just shows the same metrics as the activity, which is just the posts counted/whatever time jump.
As you said it's stupid. I said earlier in the thread I think it is/was a function that was being tested but wasn't implemented right or finished.
>>353303
We're coming into election season. What do you expect?
/b/ has too much jail bait and nudity spam. I now like milfs.
I can't go back to check threads I pinned on /b/ because they don't archive like on /pol/
/pol/ gets breaking news first
/pol/ has flags, so it's interesting to see where people post from
>>353303
>Just where are they getting so many new users from?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irbu2-kuikA
>>353364
How did /r9k/ crash moe? I've never heard of this.
>>353598
FoolFukka's search function is hell on servers. When there's a news incident related to a large 4chan board, like a shooting, guess what happens? Everyone and their mother searches for it.
>>353373
How does 4ch.be archive so many boards holy shit
>>353603
No images reduces server load by a massive amount. Text is cheap.
>>353303
I told you about the newfags /r9k/ attracted. Now that the robot is inpalce they flee to the next available turd we know as /pol/.
>>353451
>truth on /pol/
I kow you are trlling but it is sad that there are kids that will actually believe it.
>>353720
>LOL DUDE SATIRE LMAO
>le stupid kids
>>353720
Lol yes its clear that multiculturalism has made europe so much better...
I must be a troll. I mean all the crimes committed by foreigners are just made up stories right.
You should go back to reddit
Combination of election year/Trump, reddit shutting down all of their controversial subreddits, China's economy going to shit and the Paris terrorist attacks.
>>353866
>You should go back to reddit
/pol/ is full of redditards.
>The shithole of /pol/.
>>353310
>this board hurts my feelings
>it must be shitposting and b8
Lamo
>>353935
Yeah, look at all of these super high quality and informative threads everywhere.
>>353938
Thank you for proving my point lol
Those are more triggering to you than /b/'s animal cruelty and gore threads
>>353938
There are plenty of quality threads in your screenshot
>>353940
>can't tell the difference between being "triggered" and recognizing something as low quality shitposting due to how much time he spent rolling in shit
>>353941
The majority of the catalog is shitposting. And it doesn't get any better through the day. Yuro time /pol/ is slightly more tolerable.
>>353943
>I-I'm not mad
>goes on a little rant
Kek
>>353990
>kek
fuck off
>>353947
Shitposting doesn't just mean 'posting things I don't like'. The vast majority of those threads are on topic. I see one off topic thread, with one reply, and a couple that are debatable.
>>354051
How long are you gonna keep denying that /pol/ is a shithole, my man? Do I really need to circle all the shitposting and off-topic threads for you?
>>353303
people are waking up and realizing a race war and wiping all non whites off the face of the earth is the only solution.
Someone posts /a/'s graph, the one that shows its imminent death.
>>354105
https://desustorage.org/a/statistics/activity/
I think it's the fifth most populous board right now. Depends if there's worthwhile anime airing or not. But yeah, it did suffer a significant drop in users from 2013 to 2015 from what I can remember by the stats on archive.moe and hasn't recovered ever since.
We are growing stronger.
>>353407
Sorry /pol/ but you're cancer.
Sometimes amusing cancer but still cancer.
>>354140
>it did suffer a significant drop in users from 2013 to 2015
Thank God for that.
KLK and SnK made the board near unbrowsable.
>>354200
>everything I don't like is cancer
Got it.
Weren't there a bunch of big drama waves from reddit and they fled to /pol/?
>>354062
I've made one post so far, so I don't know what you mean by that first sentence. Anyway, the radioactive thread is the only off topic one, with the flat earth and atheism threads debatable.
