Originally KIA2 was more of a free speech forum. I believe it was created as a backup when David-me tried to shut down KIA1. The thing about KIA1 was that there was a very narrow range of topics the mods considered acceptable, and mods would remove posts if they didn't fit within that narrow range (and sometimes even if they did). The self post rule was an exception to this, and it allowed people to self post things that didn't necessarily fit in the rules but were still relevant to the sub's mission. The mods didn't like that, so they held a vote with view towards tightening or eliminating the self post rule. There were 4 options and option 4, the option to keep the self post rule the same, got something like 75% of the vote. The mods didn't like the result, so they discarded the vote and did what they wanted anyway. That's where the option 4 alumni flair comes from on KIA2. There were also numerous community complaints about how rules like dickwolfery and idpol were enforced, and they fell on deaf ears. That's why KIA2 took off, and it was a made a free speech forum to avoid the mod problems on KIA1.
These days they're a lot more similar than they used to be, thanks to Faggit's censorship. The only real difference now is the broader range of topics allowed on KIA2. The tranny topic is the most notable, because KIA1 just recently banned the topic completely to avoid problems from the kiddy diddling troons running Faggit. KIA2 still allows the topic but there are all kinds of retarded rules to placate the tranny jannies in charge of Faggit.
Originally KIA2 was more of a free speech forum. I believe it was created as a backup when David-me tried to shut down KIA1. The thing about KIA1 was that there was a very narrow range of topics the mods considered acceptable, and mods would remove posts if they didn't fit within that narrow range (and sometimes even if they did). The self post rule was an exception to this, and it allowed people to self post things that didn't necessarily fit in the rules but were still relevant to the sub's mission. The mods didn't like that, so they held a vote with view towards tightening or eliminating the self post rule. There were 4 options and option 4, the option to keep the self post rule the same, got something like 75% of the vote. The mods didn't like the result, so they discarded the vote and did what they wanted anyway. That's where the option 4 alumni flair comes from on KIA2. There were also numerous community complaints about how rules like dickwolfery and idpol were enforced, and they fell on deaf ears. That's why KIA2 took off, and it was a made a free speech forum to avoid the mod problems on KIA1.
These days they're a lot more similar than they used to be, thanks to Faggit's censorship. The only real difference now is the broader range of topics allowed on KIA2. The tranny topic is the most notable, because KIA1 just recently banned the topic completely to avoid problems from the kiddy diddling troons running Faggit. KIA2 still allows the topic but there are all kinds of retarded rules to placate the tranny jannies in charge of Faggit.