User blog comment:Meowzz/Counting to Zero by 0/@comment-4224897-20180319023246/@comment-30754445-20180319083935

@Cookiefonster

Here's an honest answer:

1. It's a place where Edwin Shade is continuing to create sock-puppets (and the admins don't even realize that he is doing it).

2. It's a place where silliness begets silliness: Some bored kids who have zero interest in googology stumble upon this site, they see all the juvenile stupidity and think there's no harm in joining in.

3. It's a place where the situation was slowly escalating for many many months, and nobody cared enough to do anything about it. Worse: Even the smartest and most-contributing members here actually encourage low-quality juvenile content.

(to be fair, a few people began to wake up just a little bit in the past few weeks. But that's far too little, far too late)

4. It's a place where the admins take the maxim of "assume good faith" to such absurd extremes that I'm beginning to doubt their sanity.


 * 1) 3 and #4 are really my only consolation. To be blunt: This community has brought the current situation upon itself. You don't even have the excuse of "we didn't know this will happen" because you were warned again and again that this would be the end result.

So there's sort of a poetic justice in what's happening right now. Hopefully, the people here will learn from their experience and stop fooling around in places they deem important.

This, by the way, is also why I've stopped contributing. I just can't take this place seriously anymore, and I can't expect my readers and discussion colleagues to take this place seriously either.