EXODUS: Zig Forums's Zig Forums Users Leaving For Brighter Horizons

Everybody is abandoning Zig Forums for some strange reason. What used to be a bustling hub of activity now resembles a cyber ghost town. These days, it's common to see threads with as few as 4 or 5 posts, and they remain that way until they get deleted or pruned by an overly controlling board operator. We interviewed the anonymous Board Operator by phone from his secluded, lonely room Wednesday and asked him about the recent downward spiral.

"I don't understand it," he responded. "I've tried increasing the numbers of guests using the board by exerting excessive undue control, bumplocking anything I don't like, deleting posts, and pruning entire threads. Just the other day, I bumplocking 14 threads within 4 minutes, just to show people who's in control."

Complaints have been rolling in about the board for months, with most people stating that the entire concept is flawed, and it doesn't encourage users to feel good about contributing, and that it's simply 'not fun'.

"Any story that doesn't meet the political and moral beliefs of the board operator get targeted by him," said a source who wishes to remain anonymous. "If I wanted to read stories from The Goldwater, I could simply go to their website."

Rumors abound that Zig Forums will soon shut down, after being abandoned by it's creator. The classic childish technique of 'ill take my ball and go home' is a completely predictable reaction by a self-entitled, sheltered little mommy's boy like BO.

The anonymous source says, "I don't think the board operator realizes that taking his ball and going home means nothing, because we've already abandoned his sinking ship. I don't think anyone will even notice."

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Asymmetrical shitposting.

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it is quite meta

but i don't want to leave

numbers don't lie

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Good fucking riddance, you faggots are /intl/ tier.
I hope you all die.

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I am one of the four people who still comes here, including the board operator

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>>>/newswire/

mod here. you can thank jhonny neptune for ruining all of our fun

You ornery lil teenage niglet.

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b-but I think Jonny's the best thing to happen here in a long time

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"I feel like a lot of the activity has been inorganic (and it bothers me that anons aren't using archive.fo but I can live with that much). I go after the opinion pieces on the weekends a little more strictly but I really am crunched for time/mostly just act as a contingency to prevent major spam/hit it when I see it while browsing the Zig Forumsews on lunch break and such."

I'm the board operator, and i am in control

of a failed, dead board

As per the "Johnny Neptune" question, that's a grey area. Generally he's harmless, and while he shitposts, he doesn't do anything too drastic. I do hit him with spam when he does spam though (and usually use B&D+ to prevent wasting my own time sifting through the garbage that is the IP hash history)

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Always stay autistic, Zig Forums.

Was gonna ignore until tonight, but bumplocked because of user being a faggot.

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Proposed Changes:

1) Satire/Actual fake news will be given a 48 hour grace period if it's funny/good before a bumplock is tossed on it.

2) Get rid of rule 5 (this would unfortunately also open the floodgates for other shit that's clearly not news, and I won't enforce a rule inconsistently if it can be helped)

3) News from non-news sources/written by anons will be allowed if the article is written in good faith no "500 CHARACTERS" bullshit- actually write an article, and use a relevant link in your article.

As this is a meta thread, how are you feeling about the direction this board is going compared to a few months ago with all the spam? It took me a while to get it mostly cleaned up. I feel like a lot of the activity has been inorganic (and it bothers me that anons aren't using archive.fo but I can live with that much). I go after the opinion pieces on the weekends a little more strictly but I really am crunched for time/mostly just act as a contingency to prevent major spam/hit it when I see it while browsing the Zig Forumsews on lunch break and such. As per the "Johnny Neptune" question, that's a grey area. Generally he's harmless, and while he shitposts, he doesn't do anything too drastic. I do hit him with spam when he does spam though (and usually use B&D+ to prevent wasting my own time sifting through the garbage that is the IP hash history).

Basically use this thread for discussing Zig Forums meta shit and I'm watching the thread even if I don't respond very often.

Board Logs can be found here: sys.8ch.net/log.php?board=n

Nobody cares. Only you.
they'll simply continue to make more and more, highlighting the fact that you're an inept bitch with a dead board.

I think we discovered the reason you're such a lonely, angry sissy:

A: because you're an angry sissy, so people, in particular girls, avoid you at all costs


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Id probably want toremain anonymous too, if I couldn't talk a female into acknowledging my existence, and the only 'authority or power' I had was a bumplock function in a board frequented by only four people.

First step towards fixing Zig Forums would be to put a robot over the board ala /r9k/. Make it a little bit harder for spergs to post the same stupid images in every single thread.

Yeah, that's the problem here, right? Images being posted more than once is WAY more detrimental than the volunteer mod being an effeminate overly controlling bitch who has made the board uninteresting and not fun to read anymore.

yeah, right

the problem in Zig Forums is simple. censorship

it's hilarious how accurate that image truly is

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The little lonely child, weilding his only badge of authority, his 'anchor', loses guest after guest, and ends up standing completely alone, as everybody abandons him.

Thank you sir for archiving the link for me
You are a scholar and a gentleman
I have Parkinsons and cannot type but poorly

I use Dictation Software to post here.

Would you archive my articles for me?


I wwould post and put Peter Parkinsons in the name box and you would know to archive that post

My posts have many errors becuse of the software i use

ThANK YOU In advaance


you archive because your fellow cult members do it. It's the classic peer pressure social dynamic.

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Andy thinks he's funny,(does he really have cancer?)

He definitely is a weird one.

This board has always been small since it was cut in 1/2 by Zig Forums.

I don't post on boards like Zig Forums because the post gets lost in the "noise"…wook at me!!!. .

Some moderation is better than the situation a yr ago when there was none.

Just keep a light hand, and definitively let the satire flow

The best news sources have turned out to be the daily show, et al.

I voted for Trump for the satirical possibilities.

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clearly this redditor knows our history well, let's all do what he says and not ignore the manlet, who he is definitely not :^)

Frederick is the BO

and you're the sassy like 'volunteer'

The funniest part is even given his physical stature, Hot wheels is twice the man that you are

are you talking to me or to Johnny Niggertron?

Worse than /intl/, you're full on reddit.