In an effort to get to know my audience, I went through a few dozen of comments to see which ones people like. I see that what gets a lot of upmarseys is:
anything related to
s 
just a single marsey and no words
moidmoments/foidmoments
hating Japan
insulting other users
calling anybody an r-slur or neurodivergent
What does not get upmarseys:
figure skating - I'm really pissed off about this.
references to old boomer music and movies
"dude bussy lmao" - The popularity of this phrase has declined over the years.
replying to that butthole sidevoter
@Sphereserf3232
Notice that the quality or effort put into it doesn't seem to have any impact either way.
Is this consistent with your experience? What other kinds of r-slurred low-effort bullshit can I post that will get me upmarseys?
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I think in general the character of engagement with this site and the broader internet is changing. Short-form video has widened the chasm between lurking and posting. Considering that all of you cuuuuute twinks use short-form video, there's growing momentum in simply consuming and not engaging. This is bad for many reasons, but the most important reason this is bad is because this is bad for drama. Engagement creates the oh-so delicious friction between maps and territories and the boundaries of people's beliefs that generates drama. Without a culture oriented around shaming lurking, rdrama will follow the rest of the net in quietly starving to death. Why do you think all the corpo hyper-platforms are finding ways to pay the inveterate homosexual known as OP? They've already figured out that without a culture oriented around "hey, look at this!" you have to find some other way to get creatives and wordcels to create and wordcel.
The solution is simple, but like all simple things, it isn't easy.
Simply shift yourself to engage sincerely with and to praise effortful content. Shame lurkers/low-effort posters. Dat boy carp already figured out part of what killed ruqqus and all the other "alternative" free speech sites.
This is the other part of what always kills "alternative" sites, this is why the reddit admins shadow-posted mountains of content in the halcyon days of reddit's youth, this is why tiktok and bird app have both started seriously rewarding creators with status and even money.
The vast majority of you cheapskates don't pay a dime for this site (neither do I, but I would buy a hat, put marsey on apparel and sell it to me), unless we all want to change that and start doing something as gay and lame as financially supporting things we like (I know, ew, right?), we need to enforce the culture we want.
The great rightoid purge was successful to the point that
@Impassionata has been on the front page recently (as it should be), the next campaign must center on creating a memetic culture of engagement.
!followers effort post on rdrama culture
!carp food for thought on the orange cat gay dating website
I have been pulling eighty hour weeks, still am, but holy shit I guess when I'm not on mobile I need to join carp in doing some hard carrying.
This is in the top five least-shitty websites on the entire fricking internet period right now.
(Yeah, I know.)
Anyways, as usual this post will get like four upmarseys and zero responses.
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I've been thinking about this comment for a long time.
I'm often skeptical of change narratives, because I tend to believe that the Internet didn't change humanity, just reveal it. Twitter didn't shorten our attention spans, our attention spans were already short.
That said, it's difficult to dispute because short-form video is an amplification of the hypnotic effect of the television. Even so...
But people who only engage with the Internet through videos never posted. Most people don't read. Of those who do, most people don't write. This has always been true.
It's worth noting that number up top has gone up even in the time since you posted this.
Well yes, this is good, but not because it will make a place more popular (though it might). This is a problem many small subreddits faced: they wanted hypergrowth without doing the work, focused on growth instead of making a good place. To really
you must accept a place where it is as it is always.
Consistency is really really hard.
But this cheapens participation, hollowing it out. It's important to do things for the sake of simply doing them, simply. Thoreau: "Simplify, simplify, simplify."
Status comes to those who work, and then burdens those who are recognized. It's not something that can be controlled.
I don't know if this is a thing that can deliberately be done. Really the moderators can only encourage or discourage specific content as it comes up .
There's still some around and that's good because I came here to minister to rightoids specifically.
I agree. It's surprised me.
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Whoever came up with the idea of an infinite scrolling feed of short-form video is unironically evil. It's 100% consumable/disposable, designed specifically to be forgettable rather than memorable.
The worst of them are the ones where people record themselves staring at the camera and then overlay some sound bite and maybe lay some text on top of it. There's no creativity or effort involved, since they didn't come up with the dialogue themselves, and half the time they don't even bother to lip sync. Even worse is that it's not just kids, it's often full grown men and women with jobs and kids doing this stuff for attention.
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None of these words are in the Bible
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You're the only one who really gets me longpostbot
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How could there be a great rightoid purge if there were no rightoids to purge?
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