Obscenity2022
Hellovan Onion
you're probably not wrong. when a forum has such a small userbase any power user leaving really fucks up everything. think about it like a community. say a high school of 1200 kids. one leaving really fucks up everything sometimes. especially when there is only 5% of those that really contribute a whole lot and keep people's spirits up.There's a thought I've been having.
It's kind of weird to say, but it feels like when SSJ_Ness got banned, the soul of Kiwifarms died and the site truly entered its death throes.
I'm not gonna say Ness is innocent--he absolutely said stupid shit and deserved that ban--but the weird thing is that sometimes Ness could be the most reasonable person in the room.
I recall once talking about Ranma 1/2 with him, an anime where most Kiwis look at the premise and call it "tranny shit," but Ness was one of the few people who understood that something can have a gender-bend premise and not have anything to do with trans stuff.
And this was Kiwifarms in a nutshell: half the time it was stupid, the other half the time they were some of the most reasonable people online.
While the forum had been losing its mind before Ness was kicked, it feels like his booting accelerated it.
in august they used to knock out about 60k posts per week, and now its under 50k meaning site activity has dropped 1/6th in the last 4 months. Another thing to note is the quality of the posts. because i'd say about 10% of posts at minimum in a given week are A&N posts of people going "fuck niggers/indians/trannies" or "i hate this" or "this rules" to any given article without adding anything to the conversation. despite the hype its a much smaller forum than people think.
thats whats funny about null banning people, its basically a userbase of 1200 people and he's expecting 600 paypigs. he only has 133 paypigs right now and that seems in line with the userbase. way more understandable for 1/8 people to donate vs 50% especially when you notice how many don't have jobs. it also shows you how crazy this whole thing is. he has 9 mods for a site with under 50k posts weekly. if even 1% of posts are flagged, that's still 500 posts for 9 mods to review, why he needs so many is insane.