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It's like we have become allergic to actual news or something. Why is every topic here now a snoozefest.
Here are a few suggestions. Pick up the ball and go
Conventional war in Eastern Europe
Genocide in Middle East
Unprecedented invasion of America
Unsustainable price increases in Western world
Canadian retroactive 'Hate Speech' laws
Lady flashing her tits at the Times Square portal
Lomez getting doxxed and turning out to be handsome, but also Jewish
Milei singing in a superhero costume
Eurovision being even more Satanic and odd than usual
Lizzo at the Met gala looking like a chicken nugget and being physically carried around by white attendants
GME and AMC popped 100% again for some reason
JK Rowling might get arrested for calling a man a man
Literally just pick a topic that's not obtuse guys. We're all collectively losing the reason to visit.
Different people want vastly different things out of TheMotte.
A few times over the years I've seen people share their lists of their all time favorite Motteposters. Some names are expected, other names make me go "...wait, what? That guy? Why?". Sometimes people will list someone who I find to be totally uninteresting and whose posts I skip over as a matter of course, because they write about topics that aren't relevant to me. This doesn't mean that I or them have bad taste. It just means we have different interests and we want different things out of TheMotte.
For my part, I'm not particularly interested in a play-by-play of current events, unless the event is particularly earth-shattering, or the post has a novel theoretical take. I don't really care that Canada introduced new hate speech laws for example, but if you have a new argument I've never heard before for why hate speech laws are actually a good thing, then that could be a post worth reading.
As usual, you are the forum. If people aren't writing the kinds of posts you want to read, then you should write more of the kinds of posts that you want to read.
EDIT: Why do you think the response to your post about abortion was abysmal? I think the response was pretty good. It generated a decent amount of engagement for a top level post and it prompted some interesting replies from @RandomRanger and @self_made_human about transhumanism, so, job well done, mission accomplished.
Now I'm interested: who are your top three? (And, anyone else who reads this, yours too.)
I'll go with:
@faul_sname (often does detailed or technical work to figure out what's actually true, which we can always use more of, while still staying easy to read)
@Soriek (for those international posts, once upon a time)
And, ehh, I'll throw in @hydroacetylene because of the high volume of (generally decent) comments and being on the more wholesome Christian side of the forum.
@2rafa, @FarNearEverywhere, @FCfromSSC
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@mcjunker and @AshLael come to mind. Others who made the jump to /r/theschism.
Checking their current discussion thread, the posts for this month are about the role of community and tradition in conservatism, the declining usage of "social construct" language in political debates, furry aesthetics, whether we can really designate some societies as more advanced than others...
Damn, I've been cheerleading for TheMotte this whole thread, but I have to admit they have us beat! I'd love for our CW thread to look like that.
Well, except in volume. But yeah, if they all moved here, I assume they'd be downvoted heavily, which is a shame.
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@DaseindustriesLtd, @self_made_human, and... I'd be tempted to give it to @HlynkaCG if he were still here, but he's not, so, I'll give it to @2rafa.
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