Pol/
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/pol/ is a board on 4chan for political discussion, created on November 10, 2011. Originally, /pol/ started as a spin-off of /new/ 8 months after it was deleted, this deletion was due to the fact that a large portion of the users on /new/ were "stormfront users" or "nazis" which caused the moderators of 4chan to delete the board entirely before creating /pol/.
The current state of /pol/
It's widely agreed upon that /pol/ is currently a politically themed random board due to extremely low quality content and spam posted regularly (this includes: bait/shill posts, NSFW content, sperging, reddit migrants and schizoposting). The large drop in quality can be attributed to the fact of /pol/'s massive rise in popularity during and after the election of Donald Trump when /pol/ was frequently mentioned in the mainstream media, this caused a massive influx of newfags who weren't adapted to the culture, with various conflicting political opinions to flood the board.
A left-wing board before stormfront invasion?
Some people will assert that /pol/ was a centre-left or left-wing board before "stormfront" flooded it, this is untrue, /pol/ always had a right-wing majority. The userbase mostly ranged from Ron Paul libertarians to Nazis, this can be proven by looking at early archives [1] [2] discussing /pol/ in 2012 (/pol/ itself has little to no archives before 2014).
/pol/ on other imageboards
Soyjak.party - /pol/
8kun (formerly 8chan) - /pnd/ (formerly /pol/)
endchan - /pol/
kohlchan - /pol/, but German
16chan - /pol/
Leftypol (formerly bunkerchan which was formerly /leftypol/ on 8chan) - Tranny leftist political website
