Counters were a mistake Anonymous 2021-06-02 (Wed) 14:24:27 No. 7312
PPH counters, ip counters, ip counters with in threads: These were and are still a mistake of modern imageboards. The ability to know how many participants (other than being against the spirit of anonymity) turns posters into rabid skitzos about how fast the board is, or, how many people are visiting the board, or, how many eyes are on us, etc etc. It used to not be like this and, mind you, this is not a jab at leftypol. Modern Imageboard software is guilty of this over all, but, the issue is it incentivizes more "posting for the sake of posting" rather than for A: Posting quality and B: posting because you truly want to/have something to say even if it is just a shit post or a green text story. It makes anons neurotic about the state of the website, which, in the long run, actually hurts more than it helps. Counters were a mistake.
Anonymous 2021-06-02 (Wed) 14:29:56 No. 7313
people have always been neurotic about the state of the website. take the counters away and you're just left with people's subjective sense that things used to be better.democratic_socialism Democratic Socialism
Anonymous 2021-06-02 (Wed) 14:38:00 No. 7315
>>7314 If we are gonna have counters they might as well be gophers or whatever those things are. The flaming numbers would be dope too.
Anonymous 2021-06-02 (Wed) 17:47:20 No. 7318
Second the flame counters
Anonymous 2021-06-03 (Thu) 07:21:36 No. 7322
>>7315 Either the flaming ones or what lefty.booru.org has
Anonymous 2021-06-03 (Thu) 07:27:41 No. 7323
WE WANT FLAME COUNTERS! WE WANT FLAME COUNTERS!