But the situation has become worse on Poal.co since late 2024: it is impossible to participate anywhere outside poal.co/s/TheLobby unless you have 360 Internet points to prove that you are worthy.
Poal.co has become what it once opposed.
Poal.co is extremely hostile to dissenting opinions. They will be downvoted, making you unable to ever reach the 360 Internet points (level 6) required to post anywhere outside TheLobby. And given that as a new user you can not participate anywhere outside /s/TheLobby, you can hardly even reach 360 points to begin with.
Poal.co has effectly become a closed club, far more closed than Reddit ever was. And if you are said to be worse than Reddit, you know you have serious problems. Poal.co is not free speech by any stretch of imagination - you can't speak/post almost anywhere unless you reach a certain number of Internet points to prove that you're worthy.
What makes Poal even worse is that you can't view many parts of it without being logged in, which makes archiving posts using the Wayback Machine or Archive.Today impossible. User profiles and posts marked as NSFW (not safe for work), as well as NSFW communities are invisible to accounts below 360 points, and can not be archived as a result. Using the search feature and even viewing user names now requires 360 points.
poal.co/s/TheLobby and poal.co/s/Introductions are visible to new users but not while logged out, which prevents them from being archived.
What Karl Voit said about Reddit applies much more to Poal:
When the day arrives where Poal.co shuts down - and I am pretty sure it will be within the next 10 years - the entire posting history will be lost. Poof. Gone. Anything submitted to Poal.co is submitted to a library that will go up in smoke.Karl Voit wrote: For reasons and examples stated in this article, any centralized web-based service will go offline some day. Some sooner, some later. Popularity is not even a guarantee that a service gets continued, as you can see with hundreds of (partly) very well known and widely used Google services that were shut down. Nothing will be on the web forever. Most people are not aware of this fact.
If you disagree with the majority on any subject, they immediately accuse you of being jewish without actually dealing with the argument - that makes them no better than those jews who cry "antisemitism" and Reddit users who cry "harassment" once confronted with criticism, instead of actually dealing with the criticism.
They are the same thing, just mirrored. Not much of the original Poal.co remains. The original idea of Poal.co is seriously wounded at this points
Poal.co became exactly what it sought to prevent - an echo chamber where anything that challenges the status quo is heavily censored. The original idea of Poal.co is seriously wounded. Since late 2024, you need 360 points to post or comment anywhere outside /s/TheLobby. This is worse than Reddit. There is no accountability on Poal.co .
This is something that happens to many sites with a noble start in one way or the other. For example, Wikipedia once had some neutrality in its early days, but it was all destroyed.
From Wikipedia is the Ministry of Truth:
Many sites betray their original user base once they grow to a somewhat large size, and Poal.co is no exception.Have you figured out the answer yet? It's in the phrase "reliable sources", which figures prominently in the new NPOV (19 mentions), and not at all in the old one (ctrl+f for "reliable source" finds nothing). Somewhere along the way, Wikipedia decided it's supposed to describe only the views contained in "reliable sources" instead of all sources - like in the old one. This, of course, changed everything. Suddenly, an article could be written to promote some specific views, with any others disappeared by default. Originally, Wikipedia was created to prevent exactly this! The old quotes made it clear, that "all" significant views were supposed to be included.
