>>2120303
>then by that logic the last thing you want is a popularity boost
don't want a shit ton of normies and plebeians getting into anything en mass, it always degrades the quality of the playerbase often the game itself, the devs would be incentivized to implement things not based on how it might best improve the game, but rather on mass appeal.

Fromsoft is one relevant to me as someone who's been playing their games since the PS2 as a child, since DS3 the playerbase is either blind fanboys who think from can do no wrong and any criticism is taken as someone just being bad, tourists who haven't even played DS1 or 2 and then act like nu-souls is the best thing ever, or try hard sweats who swear by the horrible, awful PvP. Like fuck, look at mainstream AAA, CoD kids of today don't even know how good it was back in day.
Sure others can think of examples relevant to them

Gatekeeping is good.

>>938117704
Nerd culture is normie culture in the west now. Nerd culture needs normie discrimination to thrive.

>>280533835
NTA, but he's doing God's work. Narutofags have gotten way too comfortable here on /a/.

>>714661061
>calling someone a fag shouldn't be the main point of a reply, but the icing on the cake
Fags like you do not deserve more than an anal fagging.
>maybe new people came and didn't spend time lurking, and just acted how they'd heard about this place
Lurking is overrated because fundamentally, lurking doesn't work. It operates on a similar basis as breeding. What I mean is that if a user reads 10 shit posts, he will assume shit posts is what's expected. And the category of people who do not care about making bad posts are the same ones who create tons of bad posts. So you end up in a blind leading the blind, where you have oldfags/newfags making garbage posts, the newfag comes in and assumes that's normal, and then continues that trend.
Why is it that 4chan/internet in general never improves? There's no moment anyone can say where the next phase of a game/forum/chan was a better one, it's always worst. There is an element of nostalgia sure, but I believe there's no quality pressures, forcing the next phase of the thing's life to be better. And simply that having more people, more posts, more "metrics", is always worst for the quality/soul of an entity. Picrel says it best
>>714661510
I don't go to crackheads and tell them to turn to God.
I don't go to ISIS and tell them to turn to God.
I don't go to American politicians and tell them to turn to God.
Why do I not do this? Because I know when someone is receptive to a message and those who aren't.
Even when the message is 100% not ambiguous/debatable like being fat sucks and you can not be fat by eating right/exercise, you will have people reject the message and continue living in a prison of fat. You expect people with similar mindsets to be swayed about nebulas topics of God?
Statistics argue against you anyways, most people are born into religion.