YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE! YOUR INPUT IS NEEDED!
Greetings anons. Its been a while since we bothered with a board meta thread, and this is the first one in approximately five? months I think.
You know the reason why. Until the recent CON leaks and GG anniversary got people interested, our board was so slow we were actually clear off the first page of the board list more than 80% of the time. During that time, the staff never left, and kept an eye on the board for the usual antics of bump spammers and CP bots, but its pretty undeniable that we have gone a long time without much steam. And that is partly why we're here in this thread.
A very long time ago when this board was first made, I made an exposition to anons about the board's purpose. This was done in an effort to bolster trust in the rather shaken users of /gamergate/ who had just lost their second board to a corrupt admin and his troll friends. A major part of this exposition was a promise: That if a more suitable alt board ever arose and the majority of the community wanted to move, I would close my board and move with them to avoid splitting the GG community.
That time may be coming, and every one of you has a say in it.
The situation:
A person who was once a mod candidate for GGHQ is launching a new #GG hub board on 8chan soon. I spoke with them several days ago and dropped a little preliminary information on /v/ about it. More details have been made available to me, and it looks like this is actually going to happen.
Why this is important:
There has been no shortage of wannabe #GG boards. From /gamergatehb/ to revolt and many in between, a cavalcade of alt boards has rotted on the vine while we held our own for a year and a half. Despite this, the meme of "cuckhq" spread across 8chan and Twitter, and its not an exaggeration to say that our board's bad reputation keeps a lot of anons out. This factor is, I believe, in no small part responsible for how slow we have been in recent months.
Those of you here from the beginning know how this came to be. It started even in the first days of the board, when Ayyteam raided us constantly with spam while shit-talking the board on any platform that would listen, and continues even into recently with the fight against the Cancerfags and their co-opted imageboard site. While we won the war to keep their faggotry from taking over our board in the short term, the long-term damage they've done by their smear campaign has damaged our viability. Feel free to disagree with this, but its how I personally feel.
The reason we fought that war, and why I never capitulated as BO to any of these well-known assholes, is simple: The underhanded cocksuckers deserve nothing but contempt. For the way they fooled the users of /gg/ and /gamergate/ into believing their boards were free, for the way they betrayed #GG and all of us by destroying those boards, for their underhanded and desperate tactics to hold onto power on the boards at any cost, and for finally showing their true colors as wannabe e-celebs, self-interested political shills, trolls, doxers, spammers, hackers, and more. God only knows where we would have ended up if they had managed to set us up for failure even one more time. To quote a man with a fine beard, my reply has always been "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"
So let me get to the point.
For the first time, a known party (as much as one can know an anon, anyway) wants to make an alt board to GGHQ. The reasons why are much of what I described above. They think a fresh board, much more open to general political and games industry discussion as well as OPs and digs, would reinvigorate the community, and I don't see a lot of reason to disagree. Say what you will about KiA - they've kept active by making their tent bigger, though they still suffer under the general limitations of lolreddit.
What I know.
Their board is supposed to be a much more general #GG board, much in the flavor of the original /gg/, minus the cancerous cabal behind the scenes. The idea was explained to me as
>some rules to contain the worst autism, more than revolt has but waay less than you with only two or maybe three janitors."
Also bare minimal containment threads, forced anon enabled, no blocking of TOR and some other stuff I'm forgetting. Basically it sounds like a big /v/-/pol/ hybrid with a heavy slant towards #GG.
What I know about the BO.
They're definitely old #GG from before the Exodus. They knew quite a bit about Thidran's circle of faggots and the background shit with them and revolt, and I passed them evidence of the things they didn't know. And they don't do IRC or streams this was a condition of me taking this seriously btw and I trusted them enough to offer a mod slot on this board at one time. I think they understand what they're getting themselves into, which is very important.
As far as I'm concerned, I have no serious objections to their plan. The kicker is that, if their board takes off, I'm obligated by my promise to this place to direct folks there and avoid fracturing the community. This isn't another hostile takeover attempt for me to REEE at. After filling me in on some information a while back, I talked with them again and they're pretty set on doing this soon. If so, a choice is going to have to be made at that time.
FYI I don't plan to abandon GGHQ fully if this winds up happening. I'll hang onto it as a fallback board in the off chance that something ever happens to the new one. I'm not going to piss this place into the wind and leave everyone hanging if shit goes south someday.
What say you, anons?