a lot of the psychological warfare on this board hinges on the idea you have no other options and are effectively a prisoner to what people want you to see
still kekk at that one nigger who was spamming threads 2 years ago, in an effort to tilt me while I was mating pressing some white bitch in her apartment.a lot of the 'psychological warfare', 80iq spam ops hinges upon whether the people you're trying to ragebait, are even on the board in the first place. 99% chance they aren't/doing irl stuff kek
most websites operate on this principle. there is always a small group of diverse users who effectively charge psychological rent/tax on your usage of the platform
a lot of these users engage in rent seeking behavior where they do not create new content but instead reorganize old content- you see this behvior in 10 yeay reprints of albums which are more popular than ever but generally offer very little original material. rent seeking keeps them at the front of the operation without much effort on their part and it also multiplies their notoriety
nowhere are the consequences of this behavior more pronounced than the site "Veterans". veterans are usually culturally zealous and pursue novelty to compensate for the cultural and ecological vacuum left by the rent seekers. veterans will often be the most vocal critics of the platform who percieve increasing deterioration over time, which is actually just the cybernetic self regulation of the rent seeker generating algorithmic uncertainty. the veteran is likely to cynically engage with the rent seeker and generally serves to generate surplus novelty from the recycled content.
of note among the userbase is also fetishist or 'gimmick' poster. this person enjoys disrupting non rent seeking content for with the intention of replacing it with their post-relevant hyperfixation. this fixation is usually repetitively presented to the platform but in a non rent seeking way as it is not self regulating but instead, entirely benign
platforms can be optimastically or pessimistic malthusian. the optimistically malthusian platform has lower levels of recognition and user overlap, to the point of meta segregation often. there is generally less emphasis on moral justification (but not necessary zeal) because there is no pretense to a central authority or shared identity. in optimistic malthusian environments rent seekers can expect a perpetually revolving door of engagement. this is not so in pessimistic malthusian settings where rent seeking behavior must be adroitly curated to avoid self cannibalization of the user base and the realization that the self regulation is actually strangling the other autonomous operations of the board. because the user base can expect a constant stream of new users, it must present its current users with a degree of skin in the game so that a virtual tragedy of the commons and reconstruction of the central paradigm may be avoided. in a paradigm shift the veteran general stands to lose less than the rent seeker, for they engage on a peer to peer basis rather than the peer to content basis the rent seeker must maintain to preserve board hegemony
from a political philosophy perspective aesthetics is usually likely to take a backseat to virtue. values are generally assumed to be an outcropping of virtue. to that end, it is generally the most competent silver tongue that dictates the flow of participation, such figures are not necessarily any particular type of user, and their cleverness generally allows them to leverage their user identity against whatever competing element of board they have grievance with. rent seeking, veteran status, and fetishism are eventually become the domain of every user to some extent who wil often leverage the trifles in service of their preference. because everyone is a generalist, the actual spirit of the user roles is effectively obscured to an excess, the creates a stagnant board culture where the function of each roles is rendered redundant and in service of other roles instead.
the apotheosis of virtue is considered to be original, unique beings and doings that watershed rent seeking content, promote vetern users to great points of status or immortalize or popularize specific fetish content. original instancing is generally treated as separate from a being a specific value because it is a direct challenge to rent seeking content. ultimately radical novelty to the point of randomness will generally tend to deflate as a consequence of high entropy content generally being ultimately disfavored against self regulating rent seeking content or veteran norming.
