Trying to figure out what i am doing wrong trying to grow forums

[Admin]

My biggest hit is r/transmaxxing

I also had initial success with another subreddit before it got banned https://vintologi.com/threads/social-media-censorship.493/

So the first limitation is the deplatforming risk you have to deal with so even if you want to have free speech (such as allowing allowing teen-erotica) you might not actually be able to tolerate that since then you put your site at risk.

This is currently my only platform i fully control so i cannot afford to take too big risks with it, i could of course try to create another site with more free speech but that would take up resources (time, money) with uncertain payoff.

In terms of active users i am having the most success with my discord channels, it's about convenience, people do not want to put effort into signing up to a sign even when email confirmation isn't required, i will see if there is any way to make it optional to give email adress when you sign up, a lot of people probably do not now you can use invalid email such as @vintologi.com

 

[Admin]

Do you benefit from banning people like pedophiles?
This forum actually got less active after i banned the loser pedophile who posted childporn here, i didn't actually want to ban him but i had no choice, he forced my hand leaving me no choice but to ban him.

So banning people that have unpopular views doesn't really seem to work, there is already reddit if you want a more censored experience.

Being able to discuss with people who have controversial views is really valuable but the issue is that these people may do something that put your platform at risk, they will usually value their ideology more than your platform you allowed them to use.

 

[Creamer]

Do you benefit from banning people like pedophiles?
This forum actually got less active after i banned the loser pedophile who posted childporn here, i didn't actually want to ban him but i had no choice, he forced my hand leaving me no choice but to ban him.

So banning people that have unpopular views doesn't really seem to work, there is already reddit if you want a more censored experience.

Being able to discuss with people who have controversial views is really valuable but the issue is that these people may do something that put your platform at risk, they will usually value their ideology more than your platform you allowed them to use.

When i get on a forum it starts exploding with viewers.
After 1 year you can expect 300 viewers at a given time. At which point you would want to increase the server specs. I am actually that good. I just prefer foidless cuckless forums.
And yeah good job on banning that blond cuck.

 

[Admin]

Too much violent rhetoric?
An individual did write the following privatily to me

know what you are doing wrong

you are too violent

i have violent fantasies as well but i keep them to myself

or kind of turn it into a joke

There is however some spaces that uses violent rhetoric that do have a significant amount of users. The individual then pointed out the following:

i know incels.co is violent and has a lot of users

but most of the posts are not intellectual posts

ur forum is kinda an intellectual forum

intellectuals are gonna try to not be on a watchlist

Of course i put a lot of effort into protecting the anonymity of my visitors, IP info for users is only stored for a day (the minimum) and so far nobody has been doxxed due to writing on this forum.

 

[Admin]

Issues with tor
For some reason this site will often not load if you try to access it via tor, i am trying to figure out why and hopefully find a way to fix that.

Often you end up having to restarn tor (getting on a different node) for the site to load.

You might also run into this nonsense trying to access the site (after it finally loads), you need to solve the captcha challange and click on "delist".

I was able to register an account "passwordis12456" via tor, i just had to solve captcha nonsense again.