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A few months ago, hot posts would have 80 upvotes and about the same in comments. Now, a good one barely gets 40. I checked talk.lol. No one is there either. Did I miss something?

A few months ago, hot posts would have 80 upvotes and about the same in comments. Now, a good one barely gets 40. I checked talk.lol. No one is there either. Did I miss something?

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[–] • 3 pts

I almost never vote on anything anymore.

I get points docked for every little thing, so I endeavor to do fewer things.

I guess, in short, to answer your question: Kinda.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

Wow... of all the people to care about fake internet points, I'd have never guessed you to be one of them. I'll keep hanging around, doing what I normally do, as long as the admins don't make it plainly obvious that they don't want me here. When that day comes, I'll probably go back to lurking on /pol/ until something else pops up. Voat.xyz is a bit too fed-posty, for me; phuks looks abandoned, and frankly— at least for now, it seems like this is as good as it's gonna get. I REALLY wish I could get an account on the Gamer Uprising forum, as that would probably become my final-destination. We'll see; maybe I can get an invite some day.

[–] • 2 pts

Idunno, I don't like to think of it as caring about internet points, it's just obnoxious and kills the experience somehow. I check to see how my comments and posts are being percieved, and ... oh, I have 100 points less than I did... Okay, let's see what I did to get all these downvotes...

And then I see everything pretty upvoted with only very sporadic downvotes, and - Idunno, maybe I have become a pointsfag. But whatever, long story short, it's just not fun anymore, even though there are still cool people here. So it's not AS fun anymore, and I'm not GONE. So I guess I pretty much agree with you.

I've never gotten the hang of /pol/ . What a weird site. What's the real chan now? Is it up to 32chan yet?

[–] • 2 pts

8kun or og 4/pol/, pretty much. You gotta wade through tons of spam. Like, literally 90% of the content is immediately-dismissable bullshit. It's why I was never a fan of the format, but you can stay pretty tapped-in as long as you don't allow all the rampant fed-posting to turn you in to a schizophrenic. Haven't checked endchan, in a while: but they were starting to have problems, as well, last time I was there.

I sorta-agree on the points thing. I have noticed that since I've been losing hundreds of points, randomly, here-and-there, with no discernible cause: it's made me care waaaaay less about how my opinion is perceived, around here. In fact, I've entered a mental-state which I can only imagine is an incredibly watered-down version of what people on death-row might be feeling: I've resigned myself to knowing that this account will end one day, and it's sorta just made me stop caring. Whereas before, I would at least make some effort to be entertaining.

[–] • 2 pts

Reddit might be more to your liking.

[–] • 1 pt

Elections are over, Trump is out of office, going to be slow until the next election cycle aside from mass shootings and chimpouts.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt (edited )

not really, not many people up vote

i mean i mostly post music, but peopl dont upvote it unless it like from the 80-90's

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

You usually get a few upvoats from me on Saturdays/Sundays. I appreciate your diverse taste in music and want to thank you for introducing me to new music on weekly basis.

You're totally right about the 80-90s shit. I wish the music sub was more active, for me it's less about internet points and more about sharing music others may not be aware of but may ultimately end up appreciating.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

yeah, i just listen to a lot of different stuff, i just share what i like.

i actually get msgs saying they like what i posted etc. i'd rather have that than votes. or they ask if anything else like it that i know.

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

I don't upvoat mostly because I am trying to pick and choose what I feel is important. If I see something and thing: "oh yeah, that's correct", I might find something else of more importance later. So I don't upvoat unless it's solid.

Over on Voat.xyz, I am at least able to say "fuck off" simply by downvoating. So I check in here, but the ability to not say "fuck off" with out a full on post, means I just shrug and walk away. It's much less engaging here compared to Voat which allows downvoating. Furthermore, some users here, for unknown reasons, go from 2000 upvoats, to negative in seconds, simply because something they said caused a moderator to slam them. That's bullshit.

Voat is much more supportive of free speech and an open exchange of ideas. Poal is OK and it's a good community, but not quite to Voats caliber due to the bullshit censorship here.

https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost.php?postid=606d57818bc19

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Yea this place is junk. 2 minute reply windows just to tell someone they're retarded. And there are more retards here than reddit.

[–] • 1 pt

Apparently, I got nobody on my post and normally there'd already be a discussion going.

[–] • 0 pt

don't know about that, but just took a trip to notabug today (first time in a couple of months) and boy was that a shit-show! I'll stick to Poal.

[–] • 0 pt

I left Mewe.com, when they sent an FU to the only three browsers XP Pro can use, and Ramble.pw when they disabled my account. Other than that I'm still on Poal, 8kun.top/index.html, Ruqqus, Saidit, and recently joined Voat....the latter might be siphoning off some people that were here. I don't play favorites...plenty of my wit'n'wisdom to go around.

[–] • 0 pt

Imo people just can't be arsed.

This site has exactly what you expect and nothing more. There is 0 creative or productive competitiveness anywhere. It's all just links to other places.

Come up with something different and it's just confrontation all day long.

Sometimes I just want to fucking dick around and do something without politics rammed up my arse every post.

And I don't do that here.

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