>>68222
>I autosage'd a handful of similar-themed threads (mostly made by a single user) clogging up the front page of a stagnant board based on the suggestion of another mod and other users - this was to give new threads a chance to flourish

That's not how imageboard works.
There is no "front page", it's not reddit. "Posts preventing other posts to flourish" what are you talking about?

I'm guessing this is where all the miscommunication comes from. Some mods is treating heyuri like it's twitter or facebook, as in, some posts are "promoted" or pushed forward while others are held back.

So you want to prevent "bad" posts from being put on the spotlight... Well this problem has been fixed a million times already, it's called reddit/twitter/facebook you name it. A single user is not able to "clog up" those website, is that the system you're looking for?

The reason why 4chan had/has a completely different voice is because it's not based on popularity contest, it's based on reaction and user activity.

The only job a mod has is to enforce the rules and ban offenders.
Different boards are there to catter to different people.

People who want to post and see Loli stuff will post and watch /l
People who want to post and watch 3D content will go and watch /s

Imagine if a 4chan user who has interest in discussing in /jp were complains there's too many pics of Trump and Hitler in /pol. What would you tell that person?

Now it appears that despite Heyuri being an imageboard, it's acting more like a giant /heyuri board that also kinda would like a system more similar to reddit.

I'm not saying it's stupid or not, I'm just saying the values don't align.