Yah, I joined POAL for a bit, and some of those other forums, but it soon became clear that the most viable next step was GAW. So, now I'm a winner. Go figure....
QRV - despite being Q endorsed - was far to rough for my taste. I hung out on the three largest: QRV, GreatAwakening, and one other (can't even recall the name variant now - was it The Great Awakening, versus just Great Awakening? ).
These forums were more hard core on the digging and research side of things, but then again, Q was dropping and we was digging.
After Dec 25 2020, when voat submerged, Q also submerged. For that reason amongst others, GAW is much more a news aggregate site and the research element is less pronounced than Reddit or Voat, but whatcha gonna do? We're in a completely different phase of the operation these days.
Yah, I joined POAL for a bit, and some of those other forums, but it soon became clear that the most viable next step was GAW. So, now I'm a winner. Go figure....
QRV - despite being Q endorsed - was far to rough for my taste. I hung out on the three largest: QRV, GreatAwakening, and one other (can't even recall the name variant now - was it The Great Awakening, versus just Great Awakening? ).
These forums were more hard core on the digging and research side of things, but then again, Q was dropping and we was digging.
After Dec 25 2020, when voat submerged, Q also submerged. For that reason amongst others, GAW is much more a news aggregate site and the research element is less pronounced than Reddit or Voat, but whatcha gonna do? We're in a completely different phase of the operation these days.
You're right, there were far too many shills on QRV. Wasn't worth a lot of time.
I likened voat to an incubator. It wasn't going to have mass appeal, but we sure learned a lot in a relatively short time.