I'm here to warn you that in recent weeks, starting with

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I'm here to warn you that in recent weeks, starting with the introduction of user selectable flags, 4chan introduce a new shadow board system.

/pol/ had grown too large in recent months with the constant media attention, so the admin team introduced /pol/ 1 through /pol/ 5. Most users are automatically assigned to /pol/ 1; however, people browsing from trouble regions (Russia for example), will sometimes be assigned to /pol/ 2.

Where this really comes into play is when organization such as Shareblue, JIDF, and the like are flooding /pol/ with nonsensical spam. These posters will be assigned to /pol/ 5 and effectively purged off of /pol/ 1 by moderators.

The shadow boards exist as an alternative to bans when the user or organization are known to abuse proxies to post.

This is why /pol/ seems far slower than pre-selectable flags and why you are seem far fewer posters from select countries. The reason selectable flags was introduce was to mask this change towards shadow boards.

The more you know.