It's also that they're trying to play two clashing angles. Things they know have a large and popular fanbase, and serving DEI interests.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the people at the top truly are so out of touch that they don't understand or realize it. They certainly don't seem to realize or care that the DEI bullshit and narrative pushing makes the content almost entirely unpalatable to anyone with any sense of taste.
Indeed, which is where open-source tools and self-hosting are the way to go if you want to maintain some degree of control and safety while yielding some useful benefits. Even better I guess if one ventures forth into Distro-land.
If they weren't congregating in cities they'd find other places to congregate, unfortunately. Although maybe the impact they have on politics wouldn't have been quite as significant if they'd been forced to live in more isolated and rural areas.
Granted though, it could easily be argued that their significance in politics was largely fabricated and built up through leftist-degenerate propaganda for a number of decades. So they could cultivate it as a political wedge and a cancer they can spread. And likely more.
You're absolutely right. It's been a long time since I've done anything in that general region so I'd totally forgotten that was almost the main reason for such a contrasting differences.
And I do agree, there's a wide range of influencing factors with urban city life that play into it. Some of it's definitely grooming and general clownworld nonsense, but I think like you indicated, there's a little bit more of a migratory happenstance that occurs.
For instance, I imagine a lot of the average gays and whatever who try moving to SLC are also going to be in a situation where they're trying to rebuild huge chunks of their social network. So it makes even more sense why so many would end up flocking into the same place like that.
It certainly can be. And there's always a possibility that a mole or sleeper agent could slip through the cracks, and/or that Dom could disappear and we'd be left without a failsafe.
I honestly don't know how to best tackle the whole quandary though. A good majority of the reason this community's managed to survive this well and for so long is because of the fairly hands-off approach, with fairly minimal rules and restrictions.
Unfortunately, at the same time, all it takes is one or two really motivated and persistent buggers to muck things up. And that can apply to our recent pests as well as to any potential new moderators.
Maybe before making any major changes we should see if there's any unexplored measures we can take to properly silence and/or remove those pests indefinitely. Explore options with Scored admins, or possibly some automated/scripted moderator tools if that's feasible with this site's API.
It's a common effect of urbanization for some reason. Probably something to do with the higher, denser populations, and thus a greater chance of an influx of newcomers who aren't native to the region.
Although in Utah the contrasting differences between urban city centers and suburban or rural areas are especially noticeable. Culturally speaking.
I've said for years that Mormons are some of the most easily corrupted when it comes to woke/regressive/leftist ideals, especially given the right angle and appeal to emotion and "compassion".
Simply put, they're too nice, and many live in a cozy and isolated bubble. Male Mormons can, to some extent, be the perfect poster-child example for the "White Knight" pejorative. And almost anytime the narrative can be spun to emphasize how much families, children, and/or women are suffering, Mormons can easily fall for it.
That's not to say that they're pushovers either. They like things quiet and civil in their communities, and wouldn't have a lot of tolerance for a "summer of love" situation to get out of control. Or out of control SF-drug trafficking and rampant thievery.
And ironically, I guess much like other religious institutions, most members prefer to adhere to trust in their church's efforts to provide charity and humanitarian aide, rather than through the usual globalist/leftist institutions. Which means they tend to not pay as much credence or actual money directly to the leftist cause.
It's probably one of my biggest pet peeve with this clownworld bullshit narrative. It's "first world problems" on deviant and psychotic steroids.
Oh noes, someone said the "wrong" pronoun? Poor tranny is being "oppressed". Got "bullied" In a game for running around with a pride flag? Worst experience "ever". Protecting kids from their grooming? Clearly it must be a far-right conspiracy to commit genocide!
And beyond that, they're given special preferential treatment in a sizable portion of the corporate, government, medical, and cultural world within Western nations. Charities, specialized therapists, even tax/state paid insurance coverage in some cases.
They're honestly lucky that the majority of the public aren't pissed off enough to do what would normally be done at any other point in Western history.
Sometimes it can be useful to be aware of what kind of angle or narrative is being pushed, if it reveals any strategically useful information.
And then other times it's just a waste of time because they're resorting to spewing any kind of bullshit no matter how little sense it makes. More often it seems to end up being the latter, as part of the "grand" strategy of leftists not bothering to ever commit to any kind of serious debate or argument beyond propagandized points.
Generally, it can start by people nominating others they think would make a decent choice. I could think of a few names off the top of my head.
Something else to consider is that, if the site works the way I think it does, Dom should be able to maintain admin in the event of an emergency situation.
Most trolls are easily spotted and downvoted to the point of negligible impact, sometimes to eventual obscurity. They only seem to become a legitimate problem when they're allowed to brigade incessantly and unchecked.
Although during election season, I dunno. Thus far I don't think scored has actually showed up too seriously on the leftist radar. That doesn't mean there won't be an occasional psyops or two, but overall I've yet to see any clear indications that it's given any kind of serious consideration since the overall numbers don't make it a priority compared to other platforms.
I think a lot of these charities also only reach out to helping veterans who've recently come out of active service. Like within a year.
Which leaves a lot of veterans from previous active service out of luck, even if they've received any kind of serious injuries or damage from conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And I'd wager that a lot of these charities "only" became a thing long after those conflicts had started to settle down.
Unfortunately, their women will still pass on some of the same cultural and genetic heritage of their people. Which means any of their future sons and other descendants will become a problem in the future if allowed to remain.
Agreed overall. The build system is quite solid, but it ends up being a massive disappointment because the overall game lacks even the most basic of solid gameplay design or polish, after years of half-assed work.
And 7 Days to Die, conversely, had a clear, fun, solid gameplay design almost from day 1, even when it was unpolished jank.
Whenever Steam cloud or Steam community has a fit I remember that it's Tuesday or Thursday. At the very least, unlike other server/service outages, Steam's usually consistent in its timing. And overall pretty reliable most of the rest of the time.
Another thing too is that coop games, when successful, can lead to (very loosely) 4x profits simply because you can get entire groups of friends buying a game in bunches.
I feel like Borderlands set the trend for this, given how they ended up selling Steam-bundles based on that idea.
Oh, even worse. I'm betting they'll try to insert a tranny narrative. The memory loss part of it, and sense of a "new life" or "new identity" will make it almost impossible for the writers to resist.