Soylitics
Soylitics is the study of how administrations run their sites and the beliefs of the said site's userbase. Administrators often use some type of soyitical philosophy to guide their decision making. Soyitical philosophies often vary between administrators and the importance of different topics in a soyitical philosophy depends greatly on the board, the board's userbase, and the administrator's personal tastes.
Types of Soyitical philosophies
Shartywise, soylitics can be conservative (preserving IAS and board culture), progressive (encouraging NAS and new/offsite topics), Rules, and No rules.
Norulescuck
Norulescuck philosophies focus on user freedom and freedom of speech. The rules are usually lax and bans are handed out in rare cases. Critics often cite that posting quality can be lower due to the higher tolerance of bad posts.
A 100% norulecucked board would be complete anarchy as there would be no leaders and zero mod regulation. Anyone would be allowed to post anything including gruesome law-breaking material and say anything they want.
List of mostly Norulescuck philosophies:
Rulescuck
Rulescuck philosophies curtail authority in the name of rules. Critics often find that jannies are overbearing and ban criticism. This is characterized by harsh bans and punishments for even small misdemeanors. There are two different kinds of rulecuckery:
- User opinion/feedback is discouraged, criticism is silenced, admin/mod bootlicking is encouraged
- Heavy censorship of different types of content, such as pornography, gore, spamming, trolling, etc.
A 100% rulecucked board would be a complete dictatorship as the admin or mods are worshipped by users and all forms of resistance are met with severe punishment. There would also be heavy censorship of certain topics and no freedom of speech.
List of mostly Rulescuck philosophies:
- Captain Coalism (because he banned all criticism)
- Kuzism
- Frootism
Conservatism
Conservative philosophies look to preserve site tradition and are generally against anything new/offsite. Gatekeeping the site from outsiders is one of the main ideas.
A 100% conservative board would be a super secret club with traditions and posting styles that never change. Anything new is met with extreme hostility.
Progressivism
Progressive philosophies support new/offsite culture and spreading the site tradition to outside communities as a form of conquering/expanding.
A 100% progressive board would have no original site culture or traditions and would be easily publically accessible and full of new users.
Sharty administrative philosophy quiz: https://opinionstage.com/page/63fb1a74-2b68-4d3c-b395-96e9e6691f90<dead link
