I literally just went on /pol/ and that board has literally reached a new low. The quality of discourse on that board is so shit-tier that it makes a hip-hop forum seem like a bastion of valuable discussion. The spamming, edginess, meme and responses with no insight of any value has reached a new low. I have a hard time believing most posters on /pol/ are over 18 -- I'm sure 75% of them are under-aged.
Enough is enough. Here's how we can fix /pol/:
>Make it so discussion on /pol/ is strictly about politics and news.Nothing else; no threads about music, clothing, history, genetics, porn et al. just politics and news.
>Change name to "politics" and get rid of the "politically incorrect" name it's so edgy and cringeworthy
>Increase moderation on /pol/. Quit allowing spamming and things in that realm.
There you go /pol/'s discussion increases.
>>585157
>literally
The problem with /pol/ is Nu/pol/.
Nu/pol/ is:
>the faggot who spams memes instead of an argument
>the faggot who just learned about the words "cuck" and spams it in lieu of every other word in a sentence
>the faggot who posts twittereddit screencaps as if they're breaking news
>the faggot who asks if something is "/pol/ approved"
>the faggot who changes his fashion/personal appearance based off of memes he saw on Nu/pol/
>the faggot who blogposts about his made up achievements in life to win an internet argument
>the faggot who posts photos of himself and/or his girlfriend because 4chan are the only friends he has (I'm looking at you, Riley)
>the faggot who believes "there's nothing wrong with using reddit, we're colonizing it, my dudes!"
Basically /pol/'s problem are its posters
You are naive if you think they'd willingly lose out on one of, if not the single largest userbase on 4chan.
It's just too late at this stage. The only kind of politics that interests people is anything to do with SJW, blacks, immigration and Muslims.
>>585160
People seriously say that reddit is okay?
>>585161
Not an argument, Nu/pol/
>>585162
Yes, all of the current newfag Nu/pol/ posters came from "r/The_Donald", a Donald Trump "subreddit".
I've seen about half a dozen "I was bluepilled until I went on The_Donald and then I came here where are the dank memes :^)" posts on /pol/ in the past 4-5 months. Others excuse it by saying "we're colonizing reddit, its okay, we're MAKING REDDIR GREAT AGAIN :^)" They both coincided with the dramatic rise in shitposting.
>>585164
>dank memes
So I assume they mean frogposts? Because it might just be me, but that shit has exploded in usage recently.
>>585174
Among other stale/forced memes, yes
>>585157
No, what we need is all of that as a new board. Now that /r9k/ is /b/2, they need a place to contain all of their garbage, otherwise it will flood every single board, even more so than it does now.
>>585157
I have this idea that mods should set up wordfilters for the names of the twitter whores and e-celebs who get spammed (knowingly and unknowingly) on /pol/ after star trek characters like so:
"Milo" ---> William Shatner
"Ben Shapiro" ---> Leonard Nimoy
"Sam Hyde" ---> Deforest Kelly
"Paul Joseph Watson" ---> James Doohan
etc.
/pol/ is a containment board for stormfags/right-wing crazies and thus any complaint about the quality of its posts is irrelevant to the function of the board
Actually, no, that's wrong, because the shittier the posts are on /pol/, the better it's doing its job as a containment board
