OK, kid. Account from 2013 here.

Everything what Charles-Tim and Rikafip wrote is correct. The forum's low point was probably 2016/17, just before the merit system was introduced. It's still not perfect, and there are some "cartels", but in olden times, there were "legendary" bots which didn't even need a cartel. So, where are your arguments to counter theirs, other than some strange elitism?

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