Most went to telegram. But telegram is really more for sharing memes and vids than for discussion. So you need a forum. But: poal has gayer admins than reddit even, talk.lol has a pedo infestation and lazy admin, and here is dead.
You do have to ask for permission before being granted access to board creation. You can blame rdrama.net porn and *wiggercide* spammer trolls for that.
> poal has gayer admins than reddit even, talk.lol has a pedo infestation and lazy admin
I suggest promoting it wherever you can. I'd love for it to take off. Maybe the telegram group you mentioned if you're active there.
About the policy here: No porn boards or doxing, otherwise anything goes as long as it's legal and not blatantly made in bad faith (eg. an attempt at trolling).
I hope that includes forum sliding with agreeable content, shitty memes more or less on topic, and a combination of the two. I don’t think anyone can create as shitty a meme as AI bots.
Also userbase dramafagging (eg “anyone who disagrees is a fed/shill/jew” and “shills downvote my (new)(funny) posts” etc). Its inorganic and reeks of botplay.
I meant to say there is a lack of mod drama at consumeproduct.win. Recently some proto rapist sperg stalked and doxxed a girl so there's your drama, but it wasn't mod drama or anything that would drive people to arete.
I guess I saw this as being a different backup with a different culture than scored
scored has basically gone full no-moderation of their communities, kind of, so I thought arete was different in being a little more hands on
globally I thought they were just letting mods do whatever that's legal, while of course specific mods have different rules they enforce on their .wins/communities
It's been pretty iffy ever since C shut down the mod discord and rebraded to "Scored, a Delaware company". We're now cut off from any form of direct communication with its administration.