>>23273015
/int/ has been /soc/ lite since day one.

Let me rant a bit, this touches a nerve.
/int/ culture thrives in chaos. it *requires* shitposting. It needs bits of current events, bits of intentional idiocy, actual, real banter. Historically it was composed of a bunch of foreigners that mostly hate each other on real, historical reasons and need a way to vent and befriend each other. The original /int/ had all of this.

Mods never understood this. They've been fighting against the basic biology of /int/ for a decade and showed no interest in stopping to figure out what the board even *is*. The only imperative it ever had mod-wise was "keep /pol/ out". Actual on-topic discussion? They don't even know what it is. They killed the community with guidelines impossible to define.
You made what's fundamentally an off-topic board with the pretense of having this vague "international culture" topic - Culture like what? linguistics? cultural product? covered by /his/ and /lit/. Geography? covered by /trv/. Ongoing cultural events? You can't actually discuss without mixing it up with /pol/ topics and the mods delete that on sight.

In short
You created an off-topic board, but you don't want it to actually have off-topic threads.
Then you allow generals to eat half the catalog space deleting frontpage culture in the process
And somehow, you are surprised it was reduced to being /soc/ lite and the most basic hornyposting / twitter bait.

Mods would rather literally die before ever acknowledging they never had a good plan for the board. Much less ever, ever changing course and stop torturing /int/. Pride off the fucking charts. The real int threads will always risk you a ban and it's been years since the core userbase had enough and left.

The fact that /int/ grew to become one the top 5 most influential board cultures despite all this abject bullshit is a testament to how resilient the concept of International is.