With the strict rules in place by Lord Farquaad, the entire subforum took an unexpected twist with a future now very different than what I thought it would be just a few day ago. Just a few days ago was the OT civil war, the great debate over what is quality which spawned into OT denizens fighting themselves over how to promote quality. Oldfag's approach to get rid of any shit and newfag's approch to make more quality and leave shit alone. Sad to say, the oldfags won. Lord Farquaad ended it all by placing in rules that slowed OT down to a near halt and prevented OT denizens to shitpost.
Why is the oldfag approach wrong? Consider this: How often do we see threads that would be not considered utter shit? Not often enough. OT became a meta circlejerk, but frankly that's the only think that kept it alive and allowed the OT denizen population to increase. We had something to talk about, be it about how the OP should die because the shitpost sucks or some other thing that makes little no coherent sense. Now with those threads gone via Farquaad's shit filter, there are so few new threads being made.
Who is going to make threads which will allow OT denizens to post in now? You can create one thread a day. There are so many OT denizens, most of which don't know what thread to make which would allow it to flourish. The ones that do exist do not interest many to post in. Birthday thread? Post a dancing loli and move on. Start posting shit? Lord Farquaad's lock hammer. With no opportunity to interact, OT denizens will leave to places where they can. Many will leave for either GD and take their chances there or keep hitting F5 in G&R until they get something to farm post count.
Quality in OT should be achieved with shitposts around. That's the static noise inherent to OT. Shitposts allows us to know and spend time with one another. Through this interaction we created a culture unique to OT. We can't have quality without shitposts if the lack of shitposts will make everyone leave. Going from here, the rules will choke OT until only a few threads like ITT2 remain with pages going to 100+
Why is the oldfag approach wrong? Consider this: How often do we see threads that would be not considered utter shit? Not often enough. OT became a meta circlejerk, but frankly that's the only think that kept it alive and allowed the OT denizen population to increase. We had something to talk about, be it about how the OP should die because the shitpost sucks or some other thing that makes little no coherent sense. Now with those threads gone via Farquaad's shit filter, there are so few new threads being made.
Who is going to make threads which will allow OT denizens to post in now? You can create one thread a day. There are so many OT denizens, most of which don't know what thread to make which would allow it to flourish. The ones that do exist do not interest many to post in. Birthday thread? Post a dancing loli and move on. Start posting shit? Lord Farquaad's lock hammer. With no opportunity to interact, OT denizens will leave to places where they can. Many will leave for either GD and take their chances there or keep hitting F5 in G&R until they get something to farm post count.
Quality in OT should be achieved with shitposts around. That's the static noise inherent to OT. Shitposts allows us to know and spend time with one another. Through this interaction we created a culture unique to OT. We can't have quality without shitposts if the lack of shitposts will make everyone leave. Going from here, the rules will choke OT until only a few threads like ITT2 remain with pages going to 100+
