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Originally Posted by Sliver
We're just going to be down to Pepsi's woke posse or whatever their little gang is called if we're not careful.
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I know you are saying that in jest, but there is way more truth to that than you know.
I meet more people off this website IRL than probably any user here. Usually about 10 a year. I have built business relationships with I'd guess at least 100 posters on this site over the years and deal with them every few years or so when they need to upgrade their car or get service etc...
I'd say 2/3-3/4 of them have stopped posting on the site, and every single time the same reasoning comes up. How far left and hostile certain member of the board became. They made the site completely unenjoyable for anyone that had any sort of conservative opinion. These aren't mouth breathing hillbillies either. Successful, upper middle class, and even some very well off and couple well known local people who stayed anonymous.
It wasn't enough to simply disagree, it always had to be filled with petty insults and the insinuation anyone who wasn't in the little woke brigade or whatever it was, is a mouth breathing moron. I am also not the only person that these people came after for not adhering to the groupthink and had two different users on two separate occasions email false accusations to my employer. It's the reason I fell of the face of the earth for a couple years, and the reason I only post once in a blue moon now.
The site was taken over by a bunch of leftist bullies berating anyone with a remotely conservative opinion. It's very easy to see too. Just look at any political poll on the site. They always lean super left, and totally contradict any poll of the general population of Alberta.
It's a harsh truth, but it's what eroded the user base.
Anyway, this is a thread about pop-up ads which personally, I don't care about. It's a free site that has bills to pay. Maybe offer a premium membership for say $20 bucks a year to go Ad free. I'd have no issue with something like that. This site has provided a great service to fans especially on the hockey side of the forum that it should be remunerated. Nothing good is free.