Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4918917-20140312225024/@comment-4356266-20140316231939

I don't want to stuff this on the article [just yet] so I'll post it here for your consideration:

I see that in the past few months the amount of MC discussion has risen sharply (this was around the time when MTM's pig machine brought down DA's server for a good fortnight. As DA's responsible for the UMS at that time the chat and all the MC discussions has been off-putting to him. This resided after John (you) hosted it on a proper paid server.

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.