I've come to view Poal as almost like a friars club or small bar that turns off most people cause it stinks and the tables are dirty. >People who want to be here will come here. People who don't, won't. The bigger issue is if a bunch of microbrew drinking hipsters >show up and try to turn it into a local pub. Poal doesn't need to be fixed, no matter what people outside might think.
But what do I know, I'm just a frog.
Your account is older than either of my accounts by over a year. I still want to hear about the early history of Poal, because I only ever saw this place after Putt kicked me off Voat, and I never properly asked about why he made this website, and (God Bless Him) gives me evasive answers, like only a Slav living in Asia could.
that turns off most people cause it stinks and the tables are dirty
My biggest concern is that the bouncer at the door is turning away people who wouldn't otherwise care about the dirty tables.
Perhaps my concerns are retarded, tho.
Early Poal was a very different place. Poal more than anything turned into a counter culture/ refuge from the end stages of Voat. And even there, we could go into what Voat WAS as opposed to what Voat became. The sub I made when I got here, Moshi, was an offshoot of the community and humor that was Voat prior to politics become so invasive. Poal has kind of suffered from a similar fate, in as much as most articles here now are related to politics or jew hating on some form. If I remember right, it was part of the motivation of why Justin shuttered Voat. He loathed what the user base has become.
The issue with new user recruitment is that there isn't a happy medium to discussion any more. You either wind up going reddit or blue sky or you wind up in the opposite end as a chan or...well...Poal. I have no idea how to go about fixing that issue.
Boobs was a great man. You'd have really liked him. Another dude from that era was named Owlchemy. You'd have really liked him too
Early Poal was a very different place. Poal more than anything turned into a counter culture/ refuge from the end stages of Voat.
Why did Poal splinter from Voat/Phuks?
Boobs was a great man. You'd have really liked him. Another dude from that era was named Owlchemy. You'd have really liked him too
I knew both those guys, Boobs better than Owlchemy, but I miss them both dearly.
Justin, primarily. AOU in particular was very vocal of the way Puttitout/Justin ran Voat towards the end. If I remember correctly, Boobs set this place up right around the time of the great Voat outage. There was a period of like...2 weeks I think? Anyway, something happened behind the scenes with the website engine that caused the site to be there but not load. After 2 weeks, Justin came back and acted like nothing had happened. Then he started shadow banning people left and right who disagreed and were critical of him.
That was the period that Poal got most of its long term users. Can't speak for how many are still around. Most use alts. I think I'm one of the few without any kind of alt account.
I assumed you were one of the originals using an alt account
No, unfortunately I only came here after kicked me off Voat.
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