The name chapo is the last tether this place has to being good like the subreddit, and is a way new people find this place
If it changes to hexbear, even fewer people will recommend it to anyone, whoever came up with that idea should have downvotes re-enabled on all their posts
I mean at some point we'll have brought over all the folks from the old sub anyway (frankly I think we're at that point already). Literally can't think of any other reason to keep the Chapo name. We need to change it IMO, the podcast genuinely isn't good.
It's just kinda meh. There are way better political podcasts out there that don't rely on forming parasocial relationships with the hosts to be more than tolerable.
i like all the hosts and i like the good episodes, but they really need to reign in the focus, it feels a lot like "whatever we feel like talking about this week through a dirtbag leftist lens" rather than a political podcast
I have personally messaged like five people on reddit who turned out to be /r/cth posters but had never heard of this place. And I'm not going out of my way to find people, that's just from the very minimal browsing I do these days. There's a lot of people who aren't online enough to have sought this place out.
I should have said "all the folks we're going to get", not the entire user base of the old sub. I say once we've gone past a year of the old sub getting shut down, I'm not worried about an old sub user finding this site just on the name.
What a goofy take. “Our name is what makes us good because people know the podcast and then they’ll think of us” even though most of us are more well rounded than one podcast and most of us listen to other podcasts more frequently than chapo lol.
“If you change the name no one will come.” Says who? The brand appeal of chapo ain’t very high, even in leftist circles, and to be honest the outreach and engagement by the posters hasn’t been the best.
The reason it’s good idea is because we can carve out our own branding that brings people in and we don’t have to play this game of “we’re the leftovers from chapo subreddit” that ain’t a good look.
I think the notoriety of the subreddit is reason enough to hang on. No branding will bring users to a communist forum. If anything the name chapo signifies it's dank shitposting past, which is a bigger draw to most than any other reason. If we're looking to gain users, infamy is probably our best bet, so hanging on to the vestiges of a banned subreddit is probs a good idea.
Also, are there any other good lefty forums? Chapo is pretty much the one place on the internet where we can post funny memes about taking your landlord out back without being banned or flooded with chuds.
Yes, but not exactly my message. No rebranding will bring users here, so we might as well keep the name that has any recognition at all. Our best bet for picking up users is hoping former sub users end up here because they remember the memes.
I'm not saying the old sub is our ceiling. I'm saying that there's no reason to ditch what little name recognition we have just to slap a fancy new label on it. Keeping the name just allows former sub members to more easily find us.
Yes? Who does it alienate? Is there a single person who would be off put about our potential connection to El Chapo Guzmán, but not our guillotine memes?
No media personalities are going to be promoting us regardless of the name. We are our own promotion. Start posting danker shit if you want more users here.
Being vaguely connected to the subreddit that sent r/neoliberal into a tantrum upon mention is a net positive amongst the cohort that would consider joining.
I disagree that no media personalities are going to promote us. Most of the posts i see on here during the day comes directly from Hasan’s comments or what he’s talking about on stream. But they def aren’t going to promote us with the name chapo.chat.
I don’t think neoliberals would be too happy with a name like lib.rehab
The name chapo is the last tether this place has to being good like the subreddit, and is a way new people find this place
If it changes to hexbear, even fewer people will recommend it to anyone, whoever came up with that idea should have downvotes re-enabled on all their posts
I mean at some point we'll have brought over all the folks from the old sub anyway (frankly I think we're at that point already). Literally can't think of any other reason to keep the Chapo name. We need to change it IMO, the podcast genuinely isn't good.
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Nothing wrong with that, I think it's hit and miss these days, the recent one on child tax credit/child benefits was informing and good I thought
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It's just kinda meh. There are way better political podcasts out there that don't rely on forming parasocial relationships with the hosts to be more than tolerable.
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i like all the hosts and i like the good episodes, but they really need to reign in the focus, it feels a lot like "whatever we feel like talking about this week through a dirtbag leftist lens" rather than a political podcast
instead of being focused they should boring and irrelevant as sht
Unless I'm missing something, this site is at like, 10% of the old sub
I have personally messaged like five people on reddit who turned out to be /r/cth posters but had never heard of this place. And I'm not going out of my way to find people, that's just from the very minimal browsing I do these days. There's a lot of people who aren't online enough to have sought this place out.
Honestly, we could probably make a bot to message users en mass if archive.org has some of the comment sections saved
I should have said "all the folks we're going to get", not the entire user base of the old sub. I say once we've gone past a year of the old sub getting shut down, I'm not worried about an old sub user finding this site just on the name.
Thanks, that makes a lot more sense
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What a goofy take. “Our name is what makes us good because people know the podcast and then they’ll think of us” even though most of us are more well rounded than one podcast and most of us listen to other podcasts more frequently than chapo lol.
“If you change the name no one will come.” Says who? The brand appeal of chapo ain’t very high, even in leftist circles, and to be honest the outreach and engagement by the posters hasn’t been the best.
The reason it’s good idea is because we can carve out our own branding that brings people in and we don’t have to play this game of “we’re the leftovers from chapo subreddit” that ain’t a good look.
I think the notoriety of the subreddit is reason enough to hang on. No branding will bring users to a communist forum. If anything the name chapo signifies it's dank shitposting past, which is a bigger draw to most than any other reason. If we're looking to gain users, infamy is probably our best bet, so hanging on to the vestiges of a banned subreddit is probs a good idea.
Also, are there any other good lefty forums? Chapo is pretty much the one place on the internet where we can post funny memes about taking your landlord out back without being banned or flooded with chuds.
“No branding will bring users to a communist forum” but the name Chapo is going to bring people here.
Don’t you think that’s a contradiction?
Yes, but not exactly my message. No rebranding will bring users here, so we might as well keep the name that has any recognition at all. Our best bet for picking up users is hoping former sub users end up here because they remember the memes.
Why even exist at all if that’s all we’re going for? It’s like this site is determined on having a boomer mindset.
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I'm not saying the old sub is our ceiling. I'm saying that there's no reason to ditch what little name recognition we have just to slap a fancy new label on it. Keeping the name just allows former sub members to more easily find us.
And alienates us from any other group. If you were a streamer/podcaster/social media personality would you promote a site with the name chapo in it?
Yes? Who does it alienate? Is there a single person who would be off put about our potential connection to El Chapo Guzmán, but not our guillotine memes?
No media personalities are going to be promoting us regardless of the name. We are our own promotion. Start posting danker shit if you want more users here.
Being vaguely connected to the subreddit that sent r/neoliberal into a tantrum upon mention is a net positive amongst the cohort that would consider joining.
I disagree that no media personalities are going to promote us. Most of the posts i see on here during the day comes directly from Hasan’s comments or what he’s talking about on stream. But they def aren’t going to promote us with the name chapo.chat.
I don’t think neoliberals would be too happy with a name like lib.rehab
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