>>94772178Deleting /pol/ would flood the rest of the site with it. Imagine the fallout from when /r9k/ was closed and then multiply it by 10.
I don't believe that. I think that's the lie they keep telling themselves and everyone else to keep from being deleted.
Do you know what would happen? Just like /r9k/ they would throw a tantrum and it would fade away into nothing. Their users will be scattered to the wind. A tiny minority of those who aren't crossover already will try to stick around but lose interest. The crossover posters will not all remain, the majority being spiteful about it and either finding somewhere else to shitpost or getting new hobbies.
Doomsday theories for a desperate group who know how much they're scorned but feel like they have one over on the rest here because of how annoying they are. They're nothing.
You know I've seen other sites fall for those kinds of ideas, but ban groups anyway. A few days, a week, at most a few months, and the shitposting will die down. They will be gone. Some of their number will be on some other site, trying to keep the dream alive. They won't have the visibility or the spark they had before. They won't endure. They won't make it.
And most importantly, they can't moderate themselves. /pol/ only works because the moderators are not (entirely) their own. Without that factor they naturally turn into a reddit sub and an echo chamber.
If you delete /pol/ then /pol/ dies. It doesn't matter how much of a tantrum they throw. They'll still die. 4chan could be virtually unusable for the following 3 months at most, but what's a 3 month break from here in exchange for killing of the hourly /pol/ race baiting threads.
>More importantly, if /pol/ was banned from the site you'd see the extreme opposite shackle up here.Also bullshit. Slippery slope or just unfounded. And more importantly /pol/ is more obnoxious so who fucking cares.
