Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4918917-20140312225024/@comment-5902492-20140317022514

FegeleinParodies wrote: But around the same time (a bit later than when MC discussions started) people started talking about Polandballs. I see this as a way of people to get around the "no political discussion" rule as as everyone knows Polandballs are in its core political memes. Polandballs also reinforced stereotypes that has been going on in the chat for months for the same reason: Polandballs has stereotypes at its core too. And this, coupled with the influx of new members who'd be all too happy to adapt to these unhealthy trends in order to fit in (imo anyway) has been off-putting to me mostly, but some other chat members as well. From 13 March 2014 onwards where I have applied the limit on stereotypes, there has been considerably less usage of stereotypes in the chat (I have not actually been the recipient of one at all). Polandballs on their own don't necessarily invoke stereotypes and political debate but it rather depends on the context. After all, the rule isn't a complete ban but to ask users to watch where they are going and not go overboard, as with MC discussion. In my eyes, the best thing to do from now is to see how effective the limit on stereotypes itself is in the long term. You raise a valid argument here; worst case scenario, we can enforce a limit but I think the situation is improving - the past few days have not been as obnoxious in comparison to before 13 March.

If I look at the past, at all the time I have been here, I notice that we have had many trends in the chat, we had a period when Michael Rosen had a peak in popularity here, we had a lot of game talks back in 2012, then came the community parodies and the steamed fish around the same days, then came Minecraft, and now Polandball, the thing is that in the chat we have the tendency to move ti the sides of the main topic, Downfall, and start giving a lot of attention to something else, and it has happened for a long time, and some users can get tired of it, and it's totally ok, because some poeple get more easily annoyed than others and it's not their fault, stuff like this comes and goes away.

The chat is weird and even kinda lonely, at least on my side, since you don't come, gets killed extremely easily, -so much we could rename it Kenny- and finally rarely anyone get missed in the chat, less would you not be missed; you are still free to do your will, you can do the Fahnenflucht like Stacy if you want, if not, the same people as always (and maybe a couple new ones) keeps waiting for you to return.