[quote=@Awson]
I blame it mostly on the moderation team's unwillingness to fix shitposters.

Like not banning Nat sooner.

Also, there was a thing with the general user base trying to be polite and accepting for a time. Bad idea.

I understand the principle behind not banning people because you don't like them. But I think we could have used a handful of breaking that principle. But it is dangerous.

In fact, I probably would have been banned in my first year for being a dweeb. Probably would have worked out better for everyone.

So yeah. Too many bad posters left unchecked.
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I'd like to remind you that [i]you[/i] were the primary and strongest proponent of the "Mr. Nice Guy" attitude to all the terrible, annoying, fucking 12-year-old idiot shitposters that flooded in. It used to happen every summer and it was fine because the community didn't tolerate them, not because mods banned all of them. Don't blame it on just the mods*. Take some friggin' responsibility - this community died more because of the people like you (or rather, like you were at the time of the dying) and less because of mods.

* although, admittedly, the days of Sophi just not giving a fuck were probably more beneficial to Spam than Sherly's genuine competence