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If you do want it to expand, why do you want that, and how would you go about getting new users?

If you do not want the Poal community to expand, why, and how would you keep the userbase at a sustainable level?

If you do want it to expand, why do you want that, and how would you go about getting new users? If you do not want the Poal community to expand, why, and how would you keep the userbase at a sustainable level?

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Thanks for the response Morbo, but I would like to question you further on a couple of points you made:

but there are very few potential new users who are made of the right stuff to be here and be good for the community.

What is the right stuff they should be made out of?

Most new accounts are clearly here to fuck shit up and the initiation process weeds them out quickly. No real loss because they were never going to fit in, but we just don't get good new users.

I would agree that some new accounts are here to fuck shit up, but honestly, the initiation process weeds out way too many people, by demanding they agree with certain ideas.

The initiation process is something I specifically dealt with around ~1.5 years ago, when I was travelling, and, for whatever reason, Poal demanded my password after I had fucked up the Captcha several times.

Poal is weirdly brutal when it comes to new user hazing (other than demanding they write a poem), and kind of demands you agree with people before you join the club. It honestly seems like we inherited a weird ritual from Voat, which was useful for that website, but probably isn't as useful for this website, given its declining user-ship.

Any thoughts on my thoughts?