>>77987
The problem now is that all the /pol/ nonsense has become "board culture", that everyone wants to cling to. They want to continue screaming about niggers and Jews and SJWs because it's a "meme" now, even if it's nonsense. The issue with moderation is also that 99% of the time they adhere with this, too. They won't ban for someone derailing a thread to talk about how they want to fuck lolis, because lolis are a MEME; but God forbid anyone call them out on this --- they'll get banned. Memes have become the sacred "free speech" of fullchan; if something's declared a meme, it becomes law. For example, you can't post threads about Undertale on /v/. They'll get either deleted or put into autosage. Why? Because it's a meme. Because the mods decided that Undertale is "not a game" and the userbase agrees (partially because they are forced to). And just like small children laughing themselves silly when they see toilet humor, they all laugh when it happens. It confirms their belief that Undertale is bad, and they will never be allowed to think any differently. They even refuse to remember how Undertale was enjoyed and discussed at length there, just a couple years ago. Essentially, what happened in this case is that the mod forced his opinion onto the board, and so successfully brainwashed them that they now think it was their own opinion.
Most boards are nothing more than a circlejerk, filled with "popular opinions", and anyone who disagrees is banned. Imageboards should be self-moderating, but now they just ban anyone who dares go even slightly against the grain. They're all TERRIFIED of anything resembling debate or a counterpoint, and so they get like-minded mods to protect them from the danger of seeing dissenting views. You would think people with such strong opinions would be eager and willing to discuss or debate them, but it's not the case. Go on /pol/ and say something liberal? You're banned. Go on /christian/ and say something in support of homosexuality? You're banned. Go on /a/ and say you don't care for all this waifubait anime? Banned. There's a huge difference between personally attacking the members of a board and simply offering a counterpoint, but they all see it as the same. They're such delicate prissy princesses that even the tiniest little part of their belief system is a sacred institution that is not allowed to even be MENTIONED, much less talked about. They just want to cover it up, delete it, ban the poster, and pretend it never existed. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. It's disgusting, and it's severely fucking up any kids unlucky enough to get caught in imageboards these days.
Except for things like spam, there should NEVER BE MODERATION. Mods are supposed to be like a police force that protects a group of protestors from being violently attacked, not a police force that stands by a group of protesters and shoots anyone who shows up with a different sign. We all know how this shit is supposed to work; trolls and shitposters are ignored, and eventually they quit and leave. But if you ban them, they'll just fucking evade it and come back. By overmoderating, they're actually making things WORSE. A ban was supposed to be a last resort for a danger to the board, but it's become little more than a slap on the wrist used on everyone they don't like. As a result, once someone REALLY bad shows up and starts causing chaos (like wannaBui), they have no power to stop them.
>>78000
>we lost that one guy with the shitty fucking otter/sea dragon fursona
He might still be here (though I doubt it because he was a major attentionfag and contributed nothing else than creations of his own vanity), but you wouldn't know it because all the threads about characters/fursonas are all dead. After all Coonfox is still here, from time to time.