As many of you know I've always been a bit of an outsider to Reddit culture. I joined Plebbit in 2014 specifically to help coordinate with the GamerGate threads on 4chan/8chan. I like the mods here as people and have no dog in the hunt as to the current controversies regarding bans, etc. However two things that I am are one admin of an nearly 5 year old imageboard site, and a huge advocate of free speech.

What if we set up a /kia/ board on 8chan, and you guys brought the KiA2 contentious topics there instead? I'm not talking about a split (because its content that isn't wanted here, not desirable activity that we'd be trying to "steal"), I'm talking about an official alt chat set up with the blessings of the KiA2 staff and with official links exchanged. The 8chan GG archives are already linked here and we share links to KiA 2 liberally on 8moe already. This would just be taking it one step further, and might be enough to make everyone happy. The mods wouldn't have to deal with certain topics and posting styles, and those users would have a place to come speak their mind and completely avoid the facets of moderation they're upset about, but then come back here for the larger discussions that are more amicable to KiA's usual moods. Each place would be just a click away.

Think of it like this: Some subreddits have official Discords for chat the mods don't want on the public boards, but Discord is for faggots so I'll offer you an official imageboard instead (and let you have the kia name, no "2" unless you want it). 8moe's site rules are super simple: No CP, nothing else illegal, no pedoposting, no Fedposting, no kids allowed, don't spam/hack/bot, and spoiler your lewds. We have none of the "Reddit admin" type shit like actual Reddit has and no unwritten rules, by solemn vow of our moderation admin Mr. Parias. With rules that relaxed and global mods already on deck, any random couple of users can volunteer to mod a /kia/ board and that'd be plenty, and users can post anonymously there if they're worried about any kind of imagined backlash.

I want to stress that this should be an official board. I'm not offering the idea to step on the staff's toes here, and I have zero comment about KiA2 moderation - not my pony and not my show. My sole thought is that fuck knows we've seen too many communities split in the years since GG, and keeping cohesion in what we have left is drastically important. I made a similar offer to KiA once, in the weeks that lead up to the original KiA2 split and I've always felt the community could have stayed together if those guys had taken me up on it.

If you all want to talk it over amongst yourselves and especially with and between the KiA2 staff in this thread and decide if its a good/shit idea, I'm certainly game. It'd take all of ten minutes to set up and might save everyone some headaches.