>>13582010

A few years, really. That’s when I noticed a serious schism on /pol/ that didn’t go away. Generally speaking there was always some level of dissension from the cultural milieu found on the board (this is specific to /pol/, for the most part), but it was pretty small and the overarching theme or opinion was always pretty apparent.

The inflection point was sometime after Covid, specifically with regards to the Ukraine war. And even that divide wasn’t abrupt; it either grew over time or was brought in well after the start of the war. And it didn’t stop there. Every big issue from then onward saw a massive divide without much consensus.

This is why I lend at least some credence to the theory that it wasn’t Soyjack Party that took down 4Chan, but rather a government agency. They tried to control the narrative via shills, and that didn’t work, so they shut it down (for real this time).

>>13582562

In defense of the jannies: if they didn’t exist, the most popular boards would be overrun with edgy children posting nonsense and pornography. Look at /b/.

They could barely keep up with the off-topic posts on /pol/. The solution was always to have a containment board for discussing the most common off-topic themes, like a “lifestyle” board or something. Posts about women, loneliness, and just life in general could have been put into a single blue board, which would have siphoned people from /pol/ (and a lot of blue boards, honestly). /b/ never fit the bill because it wasn’t sfw, so there could never be a serious discussion.

But there was never a serious effort to improve the board and compartmentalized further, at least not in several years. >>13582562