I agree, this place has a lot of unused potential. It would be bad if this place devolved into a shitposting image board - there are plenty of online communities for leftist shitposting but this is the only general purpose leftist forum with an active userbase.
There are already some great initiatives from our users, like the reading group, weekly mental health thread, weekly fitness thread and so on. We should encourage those kind of posts and put them in the spotlight.
Right now, I think our next move should be getting some new members (slowly and organically, of course). The antiwork subreddit would be a great place to start. Most of the people there are completely fucked by capitalism but unaware of any alternatives. Just put hexbear in your flair and start posting.
Maybe it is for you, but there are plenty of people who invested their time and energy to build this site from scratch, keep it running, write effortposts, post daily and weekly megathreads, moderate the forum, ban wreckers and so on. Just because you're not putting any effort into it doesn't mean that other people aren't.
As for its roots, there was a lot of shitposting on CTH but it also served other purposes. Its users radicalized plenty of libs. People shared experiences about canvassing for Bernie and going to protests. It had impact on the real world, no matter how modest.
I agree, this place has a lot of unused potential. It would be bad if this place devolved into a shitposting image board - there are plenty of online communities for leftist shitposting but this is the only general purpose leftist forum with an active userbase.
There are already some great initiatives from our users, like the reading group, weekly mental health thread, weekly fitness thread and so on. We should encourage those kind of posts and put them in the spotlight.
Right now, I think our next move should be getting some new members (slowly and organically, of course). The antiwork subreddit would be a great place to start. Most of the people there are completely fucked by capitalism but unaware of any alternatives. Just put hexbear in your flair and start posting.
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Maybe it is for you, but there are plenty of people who invested their time and energy to build this site from scratch, keep it running, write effortposts, post daily and weekly megathreads, moderate the forum, ban wreckers and so on. Just because you're not putting any effort into it doesn't mean that other people aren't.
As for its roots, there was a lot of shitposting on CTH but it also served other purposes. Its users radicalized plenty of libs. People shared experiences about canvassing for Bernie and going to protests. It had impact on the real world, no matter how modest.
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