Did many kpop fans move to reddit as this forum looking almost dead now?

No one wants positivity that's why all positive and nice threads flop and the same old stale troll threads thrive.

All users are mods by now that’s why. Everyone is busy mod’ing

All I know is ripia doing his job to make this forum alive.

It's the summer

it sounds familiar

The forum will be a mess the days blackpink, Ive and twice will officially make their comeback

lol I have been on a forum much more deader than this, where only like 3 users were active.

Would t be surprised, the kpop subreddit has been rapidly gaining new subs for a while and is the biggest “forum” for kpop for years.

another 30 page thread is born

idk about reddit being loss problematic lol but i'm pretty sure i've seen some users from here over there

Yes, reddit is superior in taste

people say this every few month regardless of the activity level

im more active in seventeen's sub in reddit actually lol

reddit is an awful website, especially about non-western music and culture

but it's got one thing going and that's that it's not kept on life support by baiting fanwars for activity

They probably moved to [redacted]

I'm in both

I move from reddit, tho I still visit it sometime

Reddit is for anime section mainly

I could just copy and paste this from the same thread a week ago. With the NewJeans and upcoming Aug/Sept cbs, it’s been busier than it has been.

Other highlights:

- it’s the summer when this forum is slower

- forums are a dying format

- still busier than most of the other Kpop forums

- the talk is always about who currently has cbs. Rn, it’s a lot of gg.

- people talk in their guilds to avoid the drama

- too much moderation/not enough moderation, depending on who you’re asking

The best part about reddit is that they dont talk about the same stuffs over and over again well.... for the most part at least.... It is still a flawed system but it is fine..

I don’t know why people act reddit is shit when there’s more problematic people here than than Reddit. I don’t go to the kpop sections everyday, but mods are doing their best to delete negative comments. People actually make unpopular opinions and talk about different groups and have more interesting discussions than AKP. Like we get spammed by the same achievements for a whole week instead of making a mega thread.

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We just lose activity when we ban popular users like Teshubs_Irene and Drew_B and Dreamer

People complain but numbers don't lie. The rest of the forum are too scared to get banned so they don't post much opinions only inside of anon.

Keeping it clean makes it boring. That's why.

But r/kpop and each groups subreddit is significantly more sanitised than akp with more stricter moderation and ways to weed out trolls with tools like downvotes, hiding posts, sort by votes etc and yet it’s stull a popular place to visit.

I think it’s more a case of in a more controlled environment fans feel they’re better able to express themselves or fan(boy/girl) over their faves without having fights so it more appealing to use. I’ve seen people say akp bullied Aespa fans out the sight and if that is the case then of course they would move on to forums/sites that won’t bully them out or prevents that sort of thing form occurring.

Or it could be because Reddit as a whole is one of the biggest sites in the world so it’s easier to find.

Honestly, having all these negative/trollish threads may bring a lot of short term activity, but I think long term the forum would benefit from cultivating a more positive culture.

It's the same in literally every other thing you do, work, school etc. Positive culture will always prevail long term. People are just more willing to stick around and engage.

A potential solution here is to reward positive behaviour instead of negative behaviour. Perhaps adjusting the akorn system. Right now it rewards poor behaviour because the easiest way to akorn farm is by trolling. The more triggered people get, the more they reply, the more akorns they get.

Instead, perhaps look at a system where positive posts get bonus akorns. Maybe an upvote system, where you reach certain thresholds and get bonus akorns, downvotes will lose you akorns. You could potentially just use the reaction emotes to do this.

Or rather than thread of the month going to a bait thread, make it a selection of positive threads and allow everyone to vote on it.

Reward consistently positive posters with bonus akorns or custom badges or some other aesthetic. I read somewhere that you can disable people's aesthetics as well, so maybe a warning point system for negativity and then disabling parts of people's aesthetics.

Anyway, just some random suggestions. I'm sure others will have plenty of great ideas on how to bring a little more positivity to the place.

The problem is the majority of people don't like troll threads, especially ones that target groups they like. They just feel the need to defend them which is why it gets so much activity (+ other trolls or antis joining in). These threads gain a ton of activity but you don't see it spread to other parts of the forum/last long-term because it's not actually building a community people enjoy. It's a spurt in activity that doesn't serve to benefit the forum long-term.

One major issue I believe is that this forum is known for trolling, it doesn't have the best reputation with the rest of the kpop community and its not just due to being linked with the news side. So normal fans already left/will avoid it due to the association with trolling while trolls started to leave as they became more regulated. Unfortunately, the older days allowing so much trolling has probably made it so this forum can't perform well with positivity as users who would be drawn to those thread probably already left.

Like someone else mentioned, kpop reddit is way more monitored and sanitized but is still more active. There can be both "bland" appreciation threads and interesting conversation topics that aren't just hate/trolling. The moderation from the beginning allowed the forum to build a strong positive (for kpop standards) userbase of diverse fandoms that will engage with different topics.

Rather than focusing on building short-term negative engagement with troll threads, this forum should focus on fixing its reputation and rebuilding a strong community that want to interact with other fandoms/threads instead of hiding away in their guilds and only engaging with trolls threads to defend their groups.

nah reddit is scarier than here

Reddit sucks

I barly even use it

not fuckass reddit eew

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Would t be surprised, the kpop subreddit has been rapidly gaining new subs for a while and is the biggest “forum” for kpop for years.

What are they called? Have never been in reddit

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What are they called? Have never been in reddit

You mean the kpop sub Reddit?

It's https://www.reddit.com/r/kpop/

You can find other groups' sub Reddits if you know the name of their sub Reddit and replace the part after reddit.com/r/xxxxx eg SNSD is https://www.reddit.com/r/SNSD

Same applies for almost anything. Discussions about video games is r/games, movies is r/movies etc. Find what you're interested and go from there.

This always happens in the summer. Many people are on summer vacation.

I am a ghost on the reddit bollywood community and omg it's TOXIC!

I am never making an account on reddit.

I hate reddits format.

I prefer discord or twitter

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No one wants positivity that's why all positive and nice threads flop and the same old stale troll threads thrive.

Yeah, high charting position- and (fake) number of albums sold threads were never played out.

What's sad is I think this is still the most active forum that I know of. S**mpi, OH, ghost towns. The newer forums, dead. I guess now you have Twitter, Tiktok and YouTube to keep up with your faves and argue about K-pop.

No, I won't be going there, it's retarded to be honest. I had an account with them and deleted it the very next day. They have the most ridiculous rules and you get roasted by bots. Lol.