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Age 29
Joined on 5/9/20
As I understand it, it was (in short) about bad behavior. If they had only closed the 'politics' sub-forum at the time everyone would have just vomited their hate into 'general' instead.
In the end, Newgrounds 'as a place' is about growing as an artist, appreciating art, and having fun with games. There are plenty of other communities where people can discuss politics.
God this sucks! General forum has great oppurtunity
Now Genchat was locked behind the supporter (There is one Genchat, but you need a supporter to unlock it)
Classic Genchat got nuked bcoz of something that i don't know for sure
@OWD5238 In a nutshell: Newgrounds costs more money to run than users are donating.
Maybe they'd reopen the 'general General' forums, once they can afford the manpower to moderate it, but right now, I don't see it as particularly essential.
It's because of drama, not enough users are taking any responsibilities (not just the regular users, but the toxic ones, and some former forum mods), a complicated history and some particular user has all sold the community out.
Tangerine
I remember hearing somewhere that it became too much effort to moderate for what it was worth. I guess also to incentivise people to use the supporter forum more??
But yeah, I was also pretty sad when the general forum was nuked.