Makes sense. However, I also wanted to say that this is one of the few places in the internet without trolls.
Not really. It just means no one's ever noticed. Bring out the witch-hunting pitchforks. Plus we do occasionally get attention-seekers and shock spammers.
The Internet.
Once a place of knowledge and trust, of giving and peace.
The internet, a place of hate and porn, individuality and amorality. Now a place of advertising and misinformation, #YOLO and surveillance.
Now it is corrupted by trolls, spam, spam-bots, flame-wars, and more.
Since the dawn of time. The only difference now? The internet corp. giants seek to plaster full names on every bit of information, every bit of information about those names forever known. Coming last summer: Your life story, brought to the internet by the internet.
Above this cliff, there is a bloody mess of corpses, magma, dementia and experiments. This is Bay12. This is the sanctuary.
The Cliff keeps out the flame-wars, the trolls, the bored children, the ragers. It holds black hats away, in fear of It.
How would you even know? Flame wars, derails, trolls, bored children, black hats and screamers - are sometimes indistinguishable from the fanatic enthusiasm of this community! One only has to bring up katanas, core beliefs or politics to invite universal shitstorm.
Seriously, katanas
suck.Also, the community seems to be slowly fading.
It's been growing. Average amount of registrations a day: 45.11
We need to find a way to attract people without calling trolls in.
Not really. It's quite niche in its own right and the only active attempt to attract people from forumites here I remember resulted hilariously in an influx of shock spammers. As others have said, the people who are interested in it will find it from the various youtube videos, tvtropes, news articles, blogs, articles from websites with larger traffic like cracked or lebbit, traditional/general game boards, subforums and stories, all spread about passively.
It's a sanctuary because of the high number of people who maintain civil composure in the face of wicked temptation. That and the fascist rule of benevolent and great Toady One the Great. As long as the number of people joining isn't so great as to displace the well mannered group, even the newcomers will settle into the relaxed atmosphere of this place and all will be maintained.
Report any suspicious activity to moderator death squads.