>>271792805
Not to shitpost, but I think the problem is much larger than that. You've got several people with large egos who think they are the "face of /vrg/" and have liberty to "set rules" for everyone who wants to be involved. Yet the community as a whole is larger than they realize. There's a segment of population that consider themselves part of /vrg/, and another segment that considers themselves at least loosely affiliated with people (i.e. they post on the thread but aren't part of the discord). However, the attitudes of those "in command," including the collapse of the first discord because of the usual discord drama, have pretty much driven both of these segments of population away from the threads and thus away from the so-called "meetups."

After all, it isn't fun to just get booted when trying to join your friends just because some big-headed moron who things they are head honcho over the community doesn't remember or recognize you.

The need for an alternative to all of your shit here is obvious, but the reason there's "attendance problems" is because most of the people who would normally buy into an alternative or split have already left and found other alternatives, and those forming such alternatives either aren't patient enough to let it grow or take it underground and away from the site to avoid you fuckers from ruining it.

Not saying anything dramatic needs to be done or anything, it's best just to chill with stuff. I maintain friendships with who I want to here, and I do wish there was a place I could go to full of chill people who don't try to push for mandatory meetup attendance or force you to conform to a boothcat standard or ostracize and bully my friends, it isn't worth having a place here if it means you guys have to be there too.