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How Can We Grow the Site
Anonymous
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No.233189
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How can we get more users on /mlpol/? I occasionally mention this place on 4chan and 8chan, but that doesn't seem to bring a lot of people here. So how can we get more people? IRL fliers? Advertise on forums from https://www.whoiswhite.com/? What's your idea, Anon?
Anonymous
ZsiIK
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No.233197
I like the flier idea, but I don't have any artistic skills.
Anonymous
Z1So1
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No.233199
233201
>>233189
We don't.
Anonymous
KlqWR
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No.233201
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>>233199
Why not? Sure the site is comfy, but I would hate to see this place die out.
Anonymous
BTKvF
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No.233205
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I'm much more concerned with quality then quantity. I'd say making and spreading content is the best way to attract anons who will actually contribute, whether it be memes, art (including lewd) or greentexts.
Anonymous
BTKvF
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No.233206
Oh fuck I used the wrong "than."
Anonymous
KlqWR
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No.233214
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>>233205
Quantity is important too. Remember lurkers can eventually become contributors.
Anonymous
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No.233234
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>>233205
Gotta agree with this tbqh, people will try to look for the source of good content and join us here. I think the big problem as well is turning out lurkers into posters, there are a lot more lurkers then you can imagine and I believe this is due to there not being topics they want to discuss not having threads on them. Most lurkers are also newfags and so are afraid of starting a thread as well in case they fuck up and get called out on their newfaggotry.

Well at least this isn't another "/mlpol/ is dying" thread
Anonymous
T5MLZ
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No.233243
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>>233234
>>233214
Can confirm. As a previous lurker now a namefag.

>Most lurkers are also newfags and so are afraid of starting a thread as well in case they fuck up and get called out on their newfaggotry.
That is also true.
Some lurkers are also content with how everything currently is. The problem is that posters that continue, can sometimes wear out. No new, or interesting things lead to stagnation.

>people will try to look for the source of good content and join us here.
This.
Having lurkers become posters helps with that cycle.
Anonymous
FM6yW
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No.233255
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I think one of the bigger unspoken problems here is that very few users (and lurkers) here actually fall into the /pol/ or /mlp/ camps.
Speaking for myself, I'm not particularly interested in the /pol/ aspect anymore as I feel it's gotten very stagnant since around about 2018 (there's only so many permutations of 'Jews' one can hear before eyes start to roll), and the /mlp/ in me is still hanging in there by a few threads, in spite of the cancer of S9. So really, all that leaves is the /g/ side of things for me.
That isn't helped by the other boards on site, which are either directionless at best or completely dead at worst. And even if I were to post in other boards about my particular interests, they would not only go unnoticed, but wouldn't generate that all too important engagement that I've come to like and cherish about this place. Don't say 'use the Overboard', because it's shit without a split or catalog view, and very few people use it.
In short, it's not just as >>233234 points out; there's little to no clarity on what belongs on /mlpol/, either. Double confusion. And personally, I like my effortposting to be as confusion-free as possible.
Anonymous
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No.233262
>>233255
Personally I reckon if we banded together and got shit done and put Aryanne in Mugen it would be an epic achievement.
A nazi hoers would finally be playable in the mathematically ultimate fighting game.
Anonymous
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No.233269
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>>233189
I think the problem most people miss with activity on this site is what 4chan and 8chan has that we don't. Arguments. People who disagree. At least for me there's little to talk about because we all agree on most things, there's no one to argue with. Though one could argue having people to disagree with doesn't make a site like this good, 4/pol/ in particular is active, but I wouldn't call it good activity considering it's shills and shitposters who run the same routine every day.

On a side note, is it just me or does anyone else kind of just avoid going into the Garbage Can and Random News threads? I feel like I'd be more active if I refreshed the board and saw new threads with news on the front page instead of the same thread getting bumped. We're not exactly lacking for board space.
Anonymous
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No.233275
>>233269
Garbage Can and Random News are the threads where I most often find something interesting posted and mostly end up posting in. The rest of the board is sadly pretty stale and I wouldn't want to make a thread just to see it get two replies and then die.
Anonymous
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>>233269
>People who disagree. At least for me there's little to talk about because we all agree on most things, there's no one to argue with.
You'd be surprised with how much disagreement there actually is around here, simmering below the surface. It's just that nobody wants to bring up any such disagreements.
I suspect that's because of some misplaced fear of rocking the boat (nobody cares), or the more real fear of appearing to be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. In the latter case, nothing productive ever comes of such 'discussion'.
>On a side note, is it just me or does anyone else kind of just avoid going into the Garbage Can and Random News threads?
You're definitely not the only one. There's really no reason either thread couldn't just be moved out into /sp/, with bigger events being crossposted to /mlpol/ proper. Threads on /sp/ don't even slide into the archive, so there's literally no excuse.
Well, maybe one. I suspect that's because flags and IDs lend themselves more to the sugar-sweet dopamine hit that is attention whoring. After all, who wouldn't want to be the big dick swinging 'top contributor' to a big ongoing thread, eh? There's a reason the filly threads turn IDs off.
Anonymous
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No.233283
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>>233269
>On a side note, is it just me or does anyone else kind of just avoid going into the Garbage Can and Random News threads? I feel like I'd be more active if I refreshed the board and saw new threads with news on the front page instead of the same thread getting bumped.
I agree with this. We need more threads on news topics
Anonymous
gOuVZ
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No.233287
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We peak in NH winter, trough in NH summer and overall trend is down. And MLP is soon dead.
Anonymous
gOuVZ
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No.233288
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>>233283
This was tried before. Board gets filled with news threads with single digit replies, if any. Also new threads require locating and uploading an image, the additional burden leads to less news posted. But feel free to do it.
Anonymous
gOuVZ
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No.233290
233295
/mlpol/ has hitched its wagon to 2 things that will continue to die out.

MLP
ethno-nationalism

therefore it will remain niche and not expand.
Anonymous
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No.233291
233293
>>233189
This place moves slow, really slow and I admit, I don't visit here often. I am not sure why I don't visit here often, perhaps I am looking more of a balance between /Pol/ and /MLP/ but why do I not come here often then?

One of the biggest issues here is the lack of current events, news that breaks, and relevant threads to the politics that is in the news. /pol/ breaks news all the time and why I go there mostly because, even /mlp/ breaks the leaks and news regarding but /mlpol/ is barren.

Let's see what news broke recently? Garlic Festival Shooting, Some nigger bitch cries on facebook because a Cuban said that she was in the expresslane with 20+ items, Canadian spa gets shut down because of tranny, More Warmongering baffons wanting to fight with Iran and shoots down drone, riots in Purto Rico over governors "lel Homophobic and racist" remarks and the governor resigns.

Horse News:China Leaks a ton of episodes early. Brony Con around the corner, Several other Cons. Drama, Drama, Drama.
Anonymous
gOuVZ
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No.233293
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>>233291
You've failed in your duties, anon!

Now tell me about the China leaks!
Anonymous
+rOpz
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No.233294
From Episode 14 to 20 was leaked, surprisingly in English by china.
https://mega.nz/#F!TR8WGAIA!6Awwzka4IgmTUxUjFu1qaQ

Shockingly 21 and 22 were due to come out but never did. No one knows why.

Anonymous
V/sI9
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No.233295
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>>233290
/mlpol/ has hitched its wagon to 2 things that will continue to die out.
>MLP
>ethno-nationalism
I understand the first one because in some way depends of the show going, but the second can only grow more and more.
Would you mind to explain your mind?
Anonymous
+rOpz
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No.233298
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>>233295
G4 is still one of the best generations but surprisingly, why the fuck hasn't the first two at the very least created a cult following? I mean it still get's pop culture references in a show that is based in the 80's. Pic Related.

The show might die, and everyone knows Hasbro will go bankrupt, but the fans will still be here long after though I am sure many will move onto other things sadly.

Ethno-Nationalism, yeah I think Nationalism is making a strong come back but people really want Ethno Nationalism. One thing I learned in my life, from all my travels across the US, is that everyone HATES each other. Not just whites vs blacks, everyone! Chicago for example just with sports is divided between north and south, east and west, either you like the Bears or you like the Packers, either the Cubs or the Sox, either Hot Dogs or Deep Dish Pizza then you have the plebs that like Sub sadwhiches. For peat sake you may go "pff what nonsense" but they upright kill your ass if you are in the wrong part of town waving a hot dog shirt in pizzaville.

Go to Alabama and instead of NFL it is College football, because they are too good to play professional and it is Alabama state vs Auburn. (I am begining to see sports as being a big problem in the USA)I guess this is what the liberals keep pushing with "balkanization" more like tribalism.

If you were to have Ethno-Nationalism you have to first close the boarders then kick everyone else out. Kinda hard to have America, America when it is being invaded.
Anonymous
gOuVZ
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No.233303
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>>233295
>Would you mind to explain your mind?
Democracy goes where the numbers are. Civic-nationalism can always get move numbers than Ethno-nationalism. The West will go civic- not ethno-
Anonymous
gOuVZ
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No.233304
>>233303
more*
Anonymous
+rOpz
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No.233306
>>233303
Isn't Civic Nationalism just Nationalism but who ever is left in the country stays? Isn't that the first step to Ethno-Nationalism anyway? Close the borders, put country first then when the borders are closed kick out all the impurities?
Anonymous
V/sI9
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No.233308
>>233303
>The West will go civic- not ethno-
True, but only if the (((democratic))) game keeps going, and this is the current recipe for a bloodless White Genocide.
Ethno-Nationalism doesn't stand a chance without to apply force to get the needed separation from non-Whites.
Anonymous
V/sI9
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>>233243
>No new, or interesting things lead to stagnation.
This.
But a new phenomena appeared in the last 2 weeks, the content generated everywhere in normal space went down 50%; it is not only this board. I have a RSS feed of around 200 right wing sites and I can tell it looks like many went on vacations or their regular content was sized down significantly. I have no idea what is going on.
Anonymous
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>>233317
Hmm, is Twili bot upon us?
Anonymous
V/sI9
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>>233318
I believe the mod or admin can vouch for me.

(user is a nigger XDDDD)
Anonymous
gOuVZ
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No.233334
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>>233317
NH summer. People are going to that gawd awful place called "outside".

/shudder
Anonymous
T5MLZ
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No.233341
>>233317
>But a new phenomena appeared in the last 2 weeks, the content generated everywhere in normal space went down 50%
That's... a pretty big swing.
If content improves in a week, then it should be from vacations.
If content improves after the school season starts, then it's family life stuff.
Could also be people enjoying the outdoors...
Hell, it could be a vast magnitude of things.
>>233334
Indeed.
>>233318
Looks like a mostly normal power law distribution. Context makes sense, and pic attached is related. Looks like a person made it.
>>233319
kek

Anonymous
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No.233420
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>>233288
>This was tried before. Board gets filled with news threads with single digit replies, if any.
The random news thread is filled with single-digit replies to posts as well. The problem still exists, but now is concentrated into a single thread that is much harder to search through. This isn't counting the off-topic, non-news posts in the thread that artificially inflate the thread's stats.
>Also new threads require locating and uploading an image, the additional burden leads to less news posted.
That's not an indictment of the board participants, that's an indictment of your own personal laziness projected onto the board. Of more concern is the aforementioned inflation and amount of links that contain little to no summary, disincentivizing investigation.

Single threads for news articles fail and large monolithic news threads fail as well, meaning there is another root cause of the non-participation.
A challenge for you. The Awoo News Network threads attract much more participation than single threads and the random news thread. Do you know what the reason for that is?
Anonymous
gOuVZ
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No.233427
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>>233420
Feel free to do it better, I'll wait.
Anonymous
FM6yW
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No.233430
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>>233427
Your answer is part of the reason there is a participation difference. Does that help you find the answer?
Anonymous
gOuVZ
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No.233435
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>>233430
Feel free to do it better, I'll wait.
Anonymous
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No.233447
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I don't have much to post about. The democrats are fucking themselves harder than my shitposting memes ever could. I want to shoop some memes, but every time I think about something, some primary candidate (or the gang of 4reigners) opens their mouth, and out does anything I could have made.

They took my jerb!

But seriously, the dems are betting on crazy, and I can't compete. Even just pointing it out doesn't do it justice. It's all down to the american voter and if they want crazy or trump.

Anonymous
gOuVZ
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No.233451
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>>233447
A joke I saw recently was.. Trump's 2020 campaign will simply be video of Democrats speaking.
Anonymous
Po3FO
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No.233466
>>233189
The problem isn't that we're a small community. If you look at this places traffic, and have been around since the start, you know this place used to be quite alive. So the problem isn't with needing new blood, but keeping old blood fresh and alive. You do this with a lot of activities and the like. More or less look to old /b/ for inspiration. Doesn't have to be super high quality. It can be stupid, but should eb on topic. Example: the /pol/eague. If we had a /pol/eague esc event happening every month this place would have high traffic since burnout would be low.
Anonymous
+rOpz
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No.233498
>>233420
>News Threads
I used to create a bunch of them all of the liberal bullshitery that happens in my local town that I am glad I am not from. I would just grab what ever picture the news station had and posted a link then tried to create a conversation about it.

I think the (lps)Awooo threads get more traction because they act like generals? Most current news always on bottom and you can see what you missed by scrolling up? I dunno, I don't browse them to be honest.
Anonymous
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No.233522
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>>233451
>Trump's 2020 campaign will simply be video of Democrats speaking.
I know, seriously. I think the dems think that everyone is so pissed off about trump that whoever wins the primary will be the next president, but I'm not so sure. The democrats do have very, very high motivation, but I don't know if that's enough if they choose a crazy candidate.

Anonymous
wx0OI
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No.235088
>>235087
>Somebody should do X because I want it
What are you waiting for?
Anonymous
eUdSI
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No.235387
you guys have kind of a niche with the brony theme, perhaps its best not to rush growth? i only found this because of the cloud fags and 8.i never ran one of these before so i can only speculate, i think slow natural growth is best. quality people, not quantity?
Anonymous
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each pol i like a stick, on is own not too formitable, but tie them together and they form a mighty faggot. a mighty faggot is a good start but then you got to up the intensity by wedging an axe head inbetween the sticks so if yoou whack some kike with it , they know you mean bussiness. they knew this ancient truth at the founding of rome; hitler and mussilini knew it as well, and the kikes know of it and it scares them because they know what comes next. the last thing the jews want is to pay for what they done to our Paw. inclosing being a mighty faggot is better than being just a stick, but you can take that faggot and shove something deadly in one of the ends, and you will be wielding an ancient power. so consider that before you go and change too much.
Anonymous
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No.235429
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>>233189
Is growth a good idea? I like the "muh sekret club" aspect. Also, I'm worried about more false flags to take down /mlpol/ like what happened on 4/pol/ and 8/pol/.
Anonymous
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No.236036
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>>233201
I dunno, I think the place has a pretty decently sized userbase. Sure it doesn't have the lightning speed that makes 4chan attractive, but it doesn't really need to. There's tons of sites out there slower than this one that have kept their userbase over many years.
Anonymous
8H0Nz
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No.236037
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>>235429
I don't want to see that happen either, but I don't think it will. The news would have a much harder time convincing the public that an MLP site is a nazi hideout, anyway.
Anonymous
8H0Nz
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No.236039
236054
>>233522
The democrats have a very high chance of winning only if there is a recession/economic collapse or a major war before the 2020 election is finalized, otherwise Trump will probably be reelected. It's difficult to unseat a sitting president. The devil people know versus the devil they don't know, they're gonna go with the former.
Anonymous
V/sI9
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No.236043
>>236037
>The news would have a much harder time convincing the public that an MLP site is a nazi hideout
Of course, that would be plain slander. This site is about Friendship
Anonymous
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No.236051
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>>233189
I got recruited from /pol/ this week.
I like this board!

Anonymous
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No.236054
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>>236039
>recession/economic collapse
There's a good chance with the way the trade war is going. It's hurting China more but it may be enough to destabilize America's economy as well.
Anonymous
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No.236055
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>>236051
Woo hoo!

>>236054
I think an overdue business cycle is far more likely to hurt the economy, since the trade wars haven’t really done much harm so far
Anonymous
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>>236051

Anonymous
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>>236051
Welcome friend
Anonymous
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No.236084
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>>236055
>>236062
>>236064
Thanks.
I'll say the horse thing is weird but fuck it, I can work with it and it makes nice scenery with all the great content tucked in.
Very well conceptualized boys.
Anonymous
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No.236087
>>236084
Thats what alot of us said. Welcome!
Anonymous
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>>236051
>>236084
Nice to see you, Anon. Have a pony.
Bane
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https://youtu.be/EN0hEeKLMdQ

If the site grows it will attract shills...

But Im pimping it on minds[dot]com anyway
Anonymous
KlqWR
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No.236105
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>>236100
>If the site grows it will attract shills…
That's what the horse pussy and mods are for.
Anonymous
V/sI9
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No.236107
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>>236105
>That's what the horse pussy and mods are for.
Well, when 8cuck went offline we were a little flooded with cancer and wasn't pretty.
Anonymous
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No.236108
>>236107
No it wasn't, but it didn't turn out too bad. I whet my blade many times that night
Anonymous
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>>235429
>>236036
>>236100
>is growth a good idea?
>muh sekret club
>it doesn't have the speed that 4chan has, but it doesn't really need it
>if the site grows it will attract shills
If we won't put some effort into growing this site, the current downward trend (>>233287) is going to continue.
We shouldn't push into extremes of either not growing this site at all (which will result in this place dying out) or shilling it everywhere (decrease in quality, ultimately sharing the fate of 4pol after 2016 elections).
The key is to find the golden mean, where the userbase is growing, but slow enough to not change the board culture.
Anonymous
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No.236123
>>236117
Jesus fucking christ, not again. Seriously anon? I'm gonna assume you're just naive and not shitposting.
>>233287
Is a faggot. He's been shilling those graphs for like 2 years now, predicting "hurr, muh fall of /mlpol/" since there were like 800 UIDs (check the home page, its now about 5.5k).
In spite of the apparent precision and autism of his graphics, he's been numerously informed of the logistics behind his graphs, why they are false or misleading, and why he should quit being a faggot, and yet years later he is at it again.
But do buy into his bullshit, he loves it when people do that.
>Tl;dr Mlpol is fine, lurk moar newfag
Anonymous
XRZ+F
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No.236127
>>233427
>>233435
This is more of his brilliant analysis
Is this the guy you're listening to?
Anonymous
V/sI9
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No.236129
236130
>>236117
>The key is to find the golden mean, where the userbase is growing, but slow enough to not change the board culture.
I support this.
Anonymous
XRZ+F
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No.236130
>>236129
Look at it this way. In June of '17 /mlpol/ had 500 Unique IDs.
It now has 10x that. That's a growth of 1000% in 2.5 years.
Anonymous
1bjEl
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No.237354
>>233189
You're going to get small numbers of people filtering in from /pol/ as they get sick of the feds, boomers, and shills. I left /pol/ for here and I don't even watch mlp
Anonymous
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No.237574
I only lurk here
Anonymous
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No.237602
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>>236117
>The key is to find the golden mean
/mlpol/ os a pit of slime, we slowly consume people and turn them into even more slime. -Sir.Anon, circa 2017.
>>236036
>Sure it doesn't have the lightning speed that makes 4chan attractive
An anon once posted about how /mlpol/ being a slow board actually gives its userbase time to have a proper discussion.
I see it like the difference between a movie (4chan) and a book (mlpol)
If you want more activity without losing quality, make whatever threads on /sp/
It seems like the higher the quality, the slower the board, just look at /üb/ place is great and slow.
Anonymous
fPBuP
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No.237604
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>>237602
I would say its more like watching a movie where half the theatre is heckling and not even watching the movie, often shouting completely asinine shit for the lulz, because they snuck into the theatre drunk from a local bar, versus reading a book.
Anonymous
avk3o
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No.237610
>>237604
Yeah, good illustration
/pol/ is awful which is ironic for the amount of time I spend there.
Anonymous
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No.240212
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Newfag lurker reporting in. Saw this place posted once on /pol/ a while ago and lurked a bit here and there.

Current state of /pol/ is horrendous and a bit demoralizing to the movement. I like the comfiness of /mlp/ but we do need a bit more useful content. Best of luck guys, I typically don't post unless I have something useful/intelligent to say.
Anonymous
T5MLZ
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>>240212
Welcome friend!
Anonymous
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>>240212
You're unironically off to a great start. Please enjoy!
Anonymous
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No.240425
I don't seek to control content, only context. Controlling content is ridiculous unless you can control people; content doesn't fall from trees, but it's important to know how to navigate in an ecosystem.

It doesn't matter to me who the authors are; if someone's writing some really awful book full of terrible grammar I'm afraid it will impact me as a reader for the rest of my life. What it means is we should be able to take what they've written and use it in creative ways, rather than just ignoring them as though they didn't exist. For me, the most amazing things are created with the input of other people and I think if that is what we want to do with publishing we should try it. We should be able to create more books, and so will the rest of the people who want to read them.
Anonymous
gOuVZ
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No.240470
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W have more posts this August per day than last August. We have grown year on year. New posting count might reach 2017 new year.
Anonymous
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>>240470
That’s because the other /pol/ boards didn’t understand that friendship is magic. It is the strongest magic. It protects this board.
Anonymous
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No.242792
dudes just keep it gangster. slow grow is better than no grow. ever here of this guy? https://www.16chan.xyz/pol/res/729.html#
Anonymous
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>>233189
I think we're good
Anonymous
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No.245682
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>>245664
Considering we started with ~800 and just broke 6k in the last few days, yeah I agree
Anonymous
V/sI9
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No.245704
245729
>>245682
>and just broke 6k in the last few days
It may be misleading, VPNs make difficult to say a real number.
Anonymous
NAnZS
?
No.245729
>>245704
Indeed, I didn't mean to suggest that "we have 6k users", but the UID# is the only metric I know of by which to gauge our growth. Considering that we grew by about 2k in the last 2 months (undoubtedly due to new users AND VPNs) its still a win in my book.
Anonymous
QeseK
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No.245777
245780
>>233280
>Well, maybe one. I suspect that's because flags and IDs lend themselves more to the sugar-sweet dopamine hit that is attention whoring. After all, who wouldn't want to be the big dick swinging 'top contributor' to a big ongoing thread, eh? There's a reason the filly threads turn IDs off.
Well, maybe we should remove flags and IDs altogether? I kinda agree. I think that would improve the site.
Anonymous
gOuVZ
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No.245780
245784
trump-checked.png
>>245777 Checked.

It must be that time of the year again! I have deja vu.

Anonymous
QeseK
?
No.245784
245790 245793
>>245780
I suppose it has already been tried. I don't remember this.
Maybe it won't make any significant difference but I do think that >>233280 is spot on on this. If anything, it might make people less pretencious.
But maybe, people are anyway anonymous as it so won't make a difference.
Has this failed before?

Anonymous
SQEHq
?
No.245790
>>245784
>Has this failed before?
The argument, yes. Feel free to re-engage however
Anonymous
gOuVZ
?
No.245793
245800
mlpol-net-statspage-190930.png
mlpol-net-homepage-userchange-181001.png
mlpol-net-homepage-usercount-181001.png
>>245784
Random News started because news posting was very low. It was presumed that starting a thread and locating an image was slightly more work than just posting text news. Individual news posts were getting low single digit replies and came accross as being pointless. Concentrated news thread looks busier.

No matter what we do people will always complain about some aspect of it. Everyone has a slightly different view on things and everyone assumes their idea will be better than the current one.

Avoiding random news is silly. Our board is slow and nothing will change that because our interest combination is the fringe of the fringe which scares away some of the fringe itself.

Eventually though... everything cycles back into existence again, hence my deja vu comment.

Attaching some graphs. The first is posts per week, the other 2 are old (I stopped collecting the data) and shows user count seems to only be an accumulation of IP addresses across all time and so doesn't reflect engagement levels of the site week-to-week etc.

Also I stopped posting American news in the Random News thread because it was just continuing repeats of American political idiocy.

Anonymous
gOuVZ
?
No.245794
245796 245807 245825
wrongthink.png
Butt-hurt mods want to ban me for wrongthink. On the internet no one can hear you sarcasm. No free speech Mr. mod? Abuse of power? Ponies allowed, no exceptions?

I'd rather be banned than modify my free speech within the rules of the site.
Anonymous
gOuVZ
?
No.245796
245802
>>245794
Does Atlas agree with this warning?
Anonymous
QeseK
?
No.245800
245801
>>245793
>Our board is slow and nothing will change that because our interest combination is the fringe of the fringe which scares away some of the fringe itself.
Yeah, I think thats about it. I was thinking something similar.
>muh cycles
But you know posts like this could and probably have be posted throughout the year. As fast as any anon who comes up with this idea posts it here. Ther really is no reason to imply its due to cycles but whatever.
Never change though ;)
Anonymous
gOuVZ
?
No.245801
245803
>>245800
Cycles just mean there is a limited amount of choices and so eventually you go over them again in the quest for making things better.
Atlas
Titan
2EP5Q
?
No.245802
245804
>>245796
Oh my god if we wanted to ban you you'd be banned stop being such an ass-mangled cock-gobbler with a shitty opinion which is clearly intended to cause trouble by being adversarial. If you had a point, there would be no issue.
Were you threatened with a ban, or are you going all lefty and saying "I got a message! MUH CENSORRSHIPPP!
Anonymous
QeseK
?
No.245803
>>245801
Well, sure I can see that. On that part, we agree and also, I was just messing with you.
Anonymous
gOuVZ
?
No.245804
245805 245806
>>245802
>don't cry when we get to the next move(s)

What does that mean? The only thing beyond
>Warning Issued
is banning.

Are you back tracking or is a warning not a warning on /mlpol/? Do I treat mod posts as just LARPing?
Atlas
Titan
2EP5Q
?
No.245805
245812
>>245804
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIIvpPGYjLs
Anonymous
Scruffy
SQEHq
?
No.245806
245812
>>245804
>you were threatened with a ban
>you're not gonna just VPN again
>you haven't played this card before. Numerous times in fact
>you had an argument point, and weren't/aren't just trying to stir shit
Play for the audience all you want
Lotus
Admin
Le6Lh
?
No.245807
245809 245812 245817
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>>245794
Vril Anon, I am genuinely curious as to what your long term strategy for remaining in this community is. I didn’t issue that warning, I wouldn’t have issued that warning, and I was away when that warning was issued. Yet before I can even read the post that warning was based on I see a post full of obnoxious self-righteous grandstanding that has all the fragrance of a three day old rotted animal carcass.

Just last week I and another staff member went out of our way to try to defend your being allowed to post against an extremely angry site user, and another two or so who were not at all pleased. Exactly what friends do you think you are winning by throwing around accusations of abuse of power and having a self-righteous attitude? No, I don’t think that the post should have been deleted or a warning issued for it. But the way you are going about complaining about it is like the scene in movies when a villain is about to fall to their death, the hero reaches out a hand to save them, and the villain - hanging to life only by the compassion of the hero - tries to attack him with a knife.

If your intent to is wage a war against the entire staff just because one mod issued a warning he probably shouldn’t have, please don’t forget that the staff had already had to defend you from the userbase.
Anonymous
Scruffy
SQEHq
?
No.245809
245812
>>245807
>warning
>refusal to ban
Yeah, that was both me (not exclusively on the banning thing)
Anonymous
gOuVZ
?
No.245812
245822 245825
>>245805
Okay I have now learned to not take warning seriously. Previously I had taken them seriously. My mistake, apologies. I'll ignore them from now on.

>>245806
>you're not gonna just VPN again
I've never VPNed. If I get banned I won't return because the mods/owner have implied, by that action, that I don't belong.
>Play for the audience all you want
Thank you.

>>245807
>Vril Anon, I am genuinely curious as to what your long term strategy for remaining in this community is.
I have no strategy. I post what I believe is relevant and within the rules. I have no intention of conforming to a culture (traditionally this would be called circle-jerking). I am me. If I, as me, does not belong banning will show that. I am curious about how sensitive this place has become to alternate views. Are we becoming SJWs?

>I didn’t issue that warning, I wouldn’t have issued that warning
>No, I don’t think that the post should have been deleted or a warning issued for it.
>If your intent to is wage a war against the entire staff just because one mod issued a warning he probably shouldn’t have
It did seem out of place, but I recognise now that Warnings are joking around. I know to ignore them now.

>Yet before I can even read the post that warning was based on I see a post full of obnoxious self-righteous grandstanding that has all the fragrance of a three day old rotted animal carcass.
How is this related? What post?

>Just last week I and another staff member went out of our way to try to defend your being allowed to post against an extremely angry site user, and another two or so who were not at all pleased.
So because it was proper for me to post factual data about 8chan might be becoming Qchan and the mods defended my right to post factual data I should have not made a sarcastic post about G5? I am confused by the logic here. Again is /mlpol/ becoming SJW?

>Exactly what friends do you think you are winning by throwing around accusations of abuse of power and having a self-righteous attitude?
The goal obviously wasn't to win friends but to try to comprehend how a simple sarcastic post ends up in what I previously thought was the serious matter of a Warning with a ban implied in the text. I now know that warnings are just playful. I know to ignore them now.

>If your intent to is wage a war against the entire staff just because one mod issued a warning he probably shouldn’t have, please don’t forget that the staff had already had to defend you from the userbase.
There is no mechanism to privately talk with the mods joking about banning or Atlas. Also I never included other mods in the discussion, they included themselves, then you blamed me for that. The only method of clarification is public posting. There is no intent to "wage a war against the entire staff" there is intent to clarify what the severity of a Warning means. I know now to ignore them. My mistake for taking warnings seriously.

>>245809
Just as you failed to see my sarcasm, I failed to know you were joking. All warnings will now be seen as playful. Previously I had respect for warnings, now I don't, as per Atlas >>245805
Anonymous
gOuVZ
?
No.245817
245822 245825
>>245807
>No, I don’t think that the post should have been deleted

Wait, if my post was deleted, how can my ban threat be a joke? Was the delete just joking around also? I am confused as to how far joking can go, now.


Anonymous
SQEHq
?
No.245822
245828
>>245812
>>245817
>1 step closer to G5 and the new and improved Applejack

Thats what you said. If you want to have a discussion or even make an argument about how you're looking forward to the new AJ, that would be one thing. But no, you're playing innocent, acting like le ebil mods are trying to censor poor little you.
All the while acting like this is the first time you've deliberately pushed the envelope decided to crack jokes, which it isn't. You of all anons have probably had the MOST staff-attention, so to claim "I didn't know!" is a bit disingenuous.
Lastly, ignore warnings at your peril. Just because THAT one didn't carry a threat of ban and to the "I won't VPN",... pull the other one doesn't mean none do.
Lotus
Admin
Le6Lh
?
No.245825
245828 245829
>>245817
>>245812
I never claimed that there was a joke made anywhere by anyone or that the warning wasn't serious. I have no idea why you insist that. I've said explicitly that that moderator overstepped his bounds. The point I came to make, and the point that that you missed, is that Goddamn, you fellate yourself in >>245794 in such a way that makes every member of staff, especially ones who had absolutely nothing at all to with the warning one guy made, instantly hate you.

I have no idea if your post was even deleted. I just know that >>245794 is cliche filled, hyperbolic, and obnoxiously self righteous like a twitter user claiming the xth thing Trump did is the same as Hitler and Concentration Camps. That is all.
Anonymous
gOuVZ
?
No.245828
245830
>>245822
What bothers me about these types of posts is the lies it perpetuates. Now if I stand my ground people will claim I am just being argumentative. And yet if someome lies about you how can you now reply?

>Thats what you said. If you want to have a discussion or even make an argument about how you're looking forward to the new AJ, that would be one thing.
It was sarcasm. Why so serious?

>But no, you're playing innocent, acting like le ebil mods are trying to censor poor little you.
Not trying actually did censor me. And actually did overstep their authority as stated by >>245825

>All the while acting like this is the first time you've deliberately pushed the envelope decided to crack jokes, which it isn't.
I am still puzzled by all this SJWing.

>You of all anons have probably had the MOST staff-attention, so to claim "I didn't know!" is a bit disingenuous.
Didn't know what? That sarcasm = ban?

>Lastly, ignore warnings at your peril. Just because THAT one didn't carry a threat of ban and to the "I won't VPN",… pull the other one doesn't mean none do.
See this thread on /vx/, 2 years of the same ID. Don't spread lies.

Anonymous
gOuVZ
?
No.245829
245831
flutter hug.gif
>>245825
>I've said explicitly that that moderator overstepped his bounds.
That's all I wanted, I missed that previously. I now know to respect Warnings but that last one was invalid. Thank very much for the clarifications, I consider these discussions fruitful and worth it and I appreciate every ones time and attention to clarify the situation.
Anonymous
gOuVZ
?
No.245830
>>245828
>See this thread on /vx/ should be:
>>>/vx/750 →

Anonymous
V/sI9
?
No.245831
245832 245833
img-2892118-1-MLP_2_7.jpg
>>245829
Vril, your posts are appreciated by me, even the Qanon faggotry, but now relax, you are taking this inconvenience too seriously and because it touched your ego, over the top.
Take a deep breath and recharge friendship.
Anonymous
SQEHq
?
No.245832
>>245831
Thank you
Anonymous
gOuVZ
?
No.245833
245835
>>245831
It's not about ego. It was about understanding what the rules of posting are. How can one post if the rules are ambiguous and can result in bans for unknown reasons? Also don't read that I am emotional about this. This is just trying to grasp the logic of what can be posted. I am not in anyway upset or feeling threatened. I am feeling very content. If I get banned I won't be upset. Everything ends eventually.
Anonymous
V/sI9
?
No.245835
Berry punch and colgate _ae1d5563842f5a39873066c800fc85d1.png
>>245833
>It was about understanding what the rules of posting are.
It was said before by the mods, rules are flexible and adapt to each situation, in this case, IMHO, play humble and shut up for a while, give a chance to this situation settle down (meaning: let it go).
Don't keep stirring the pot.

Anonymous
V/sI9
?
No.245837
245838
ucyufu.jpg
>>245836
If you wish, you can think whatever you want.
But, I personally want to keep reading your posts, and friendship to flow as before.
So, let us consider this issue gone, and let's go back to business, in a humble way of course.
Anonymous
gOuVZ
?
No.245838
245839
rd-fs-hug.png
>>245837
:) *hugs*
Anonymous
V/sI9
?
No.245839
245840
5gco-1490300062-368179-full.jpeg
>>245838

Anonymous
gOuVZ
?
No.245840
hugs.png
>>245839
Stop groping my chest fluff!
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