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Post by hamman88 on Aug 14, 2014 16:01:49 GMT
Just to start to get a grand picture of things, it'd be nice to get a few facts on the table.
Since a large portion of the posts I see on HL, are really just complaining about the degrading quality of the site, (posts which serve no purpose whatsoever)
Combined with the fact that posts with smaller and smaller amount of likes are getting to rising and front (due to the way the site decides to select what moves from fresh -> rising -> front, if you didnt know)
I can only begin to presume that this is because people simply stopped visiting the site altogether, stopped voting and purging through the horrorfest that is the Fresh Page, or simply gave up on HL and moved onto HDL.
So I ask the Admins, if they know these figures, to tell us what the general trend for site usage for both HL and HDL have been in the last few months, so we can decide whether or not people are just lazy shits who dont post OC/vote on fresh, or wether or not we really have lost a great portion of the community, hence the poor post quality and frequent reposts/9-gagisms. (Side note I think many of these 9-gagisms are really just made up claims, but more on that another time)
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Post by thor123 on Aug 14, 2014 18:55:38 GMT
I can only begin to presume that this is because people simply stopped visiting the site altogether, stopped voting and purging through the horrorfest that is the Fresh Page, or simply gave up on HL and moved onto HDL. I can tell you they didn't move to HDL, got rising with -1 there today. Otherwise, i agree though. |
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Post by NineSun on Aug 14, 2014 20:16:29 GMT
I can only begin to presume that this is because people simply stopped visiting the site altogether, stopped voting and purging through the horrorfest that is the Fresh Page, or simply gave up on HL and moved onto HDL. I can tell you they didn't move to HDL, got rising with -1 there today. Otherwise, i agree though. Rising with -1 ... it was shit ... but shiny shit? |
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Post by RosettaStoned on Aug 14, 2014 21:25:39 GMT
I can tell you they didn't move to HDL, got rising with -1 there today. Kek, that place really went down the shitter, now did it? Anyways, the 'great' move to Hiddenlol was really just a temporary thing I'd say, I mean, the fuck is going on there now? Barely see any good posts, it's practically a mix of /gif/ and /b/ tbh. I do hope the forum will make people aware of a ton of stuff now though. |
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Post by Admin on Aug 15, 2014 1:37:47 GMT
There are still a lot of active members, but there are not many posts. We think this is because people are being overly rude and mean in the comments. People don't want to risk having to deal with an angry mob in the comments. So we want to stop comments who have no meaningful content and are just there to make OP feel bad - that's what the dislike button is for.
We can release some traffic stats if you want.
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Post by hamman88 on Aug 15, 2014 2:57:01 GMT
I do agree with this to an extent, there has been a certain stigma associated with "9fag" and its non-humor, but again there is a reason why 9gag has posts with 10,000 likes and our front page only has 100-200 likes, The ammount of times I've seen the comment "wow I thought I was on 9gag for a moment" is ridiculous. The only thing wrong with 9gag to begin with was the "woah/reaction posts" and the godamn watermark, meanwhile ive seen plenty of humorousposts on HL that were made out to be 9faggish. Although, I've never been dissuaded from posting by the disapproval in the comments.
Possible suggestion to clean up the comment section is to follow in YT's footsteps where "uploaders and channel owners review comments before they're posted, blacklist certain words, and whitelist specific commenters so their posts will always be approved."
And follow up by trying to raise community morale about posting/creating good OC, perhaps through a best post/user/comment of the month, with a reward (month of gold) or something along those lines, [this could have an adverse affect with shitposting/karma whoring, I'm just throwing ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks, im sure the admins have thought of most this already]
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Post by thor123 on Aug 15, 2014 9:39:16 GMT
There are still a lot of active members, but there are not many posts. We think this is because people are being overly rude and mean in the comments. People don't want to risk having to deal with an angry mob in the comments. So we want to stop comments who have no meaningful content and are just there to make OP feel bad - that's what the dislike button is for. oh please, don't start censoring everything because "it makes OP feel bad" |
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