yurixhentai wrote...
Where is anyone?
Also I was wondering, older users might not post as much anymore, but why aren't newer users posting loads like we used to? Does the forum just not drive much traffic?
You would think with the forums still being free, and Discord isn't actively advertised as far as I can tell, that they would get more activity. Perhaps it's the forum sections themselves? The ones we have now feel stale, somehow.
I feel as if the lack of an active moderation team encouraging a community might also have something to do with it. The main difference between the forums' hayday and now is active moderators. And the decline of an active community I feel ties in to the gradual departure of the mods. In any community, active moderators tend to encourage activity whether they intentionally do so or not, even if that community only admires that moderator because they hold some form of power on the website. Or in Antw0n's case, horny for Tegumi's feet. Everyone has also experienced cunty moderators, so a moderator that's down to Earth tends to get their praises sung which helps the overall reputation of the platform, so they are essentially the face of the platform they're on. Without anyone like that right now, nothing is being encouraged. Community's sort of left to its own devices and left to stagnate.
In my experience with reporting spambots, the current state of the moderation takes quite a while to respond. I might be exaggerating here but I feel like I could post a thread of nothing but gore, and it probably wouldn't get noticed at for at least a week unless someone directly lets someone know over in the Discord server.