What Happened to the Comment Section (GoComics)

Introduction
Obviously, the Big Nate community has been through a lot. From spammers to idiots to just plain a**holes, this can be said as one of the weirdest communities out there. However, not as many people have been commenting lately. Why is that? In this article, I try to explain why the Big Nate community has been dying as of late.

2021 Spammer War
This can be said as the main reason why people are leaving. While I disagree, I do think that it did play a role in the ultimate demise of the community. On June 8th, 2021, a rule was made so a single account could only make two comments a minute, which greatly helped. While spammers do appear every now and then, it's not nearly as frequent as before. However, spamming in general makes a lot of people mad, and after seeing a bunch of it, they may want to leave. The main reason why I don't consider this a main reason is because there were still around 400-600 comments on each comic at that time, so we'll need to go deeper.

Covid-19/School Starting
I lumped these two together because they both play off each other, and in my opinion are one of the biggest factors of people leaving. Last year, at least for me, I spent the whole year being taught on Zoom (Due to Covid of course). Due to the fact that I could just make a few clicks to get to GoComics, I was able to comment more. However, with the new school year, I have to be in the building, and they obviously don't allow usage of phone outside of being told that I could. Due to this, I now can only really comment in the afternoon/evenings and on weekends. This obviously affects others as well, and GoComics may slip their mind entirely.

Comic Quality
I discussed this in another article, so I'll keep it brief. In short, the newer Big Nate comics aren't that good compared to the Golden Age. So, some may find the strip boring, and instead comment something off-topic, which the GoComics mods don't like. So, since you're very restricted on GoComics, some may want to talk about something else with the same people. So, they migrate to here, which I pretty much did.

Conclusion
So, the Big Nate community is dying on GoComics, and if something doesn't change, it may be considered a dead comic. Also this written by yoshadoo so yeah :P