It's Internet CRACK! DOOM porn on steroids!! I think the big hook of this place (at least for me) is: FOMN
Fear Of Missing News!!
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77917981 For me, the hook is not impersonal.
It's literally a community, unlike any other I've been a part of, though much of it is now distant and silent.
It's not about missing news to me, but rather missing fellow open-minded views of what's in the news.
Most of it got drowned out by the pro-Trump clamor that started in 2015.
A select few have attempted to turn what used to be, in adjunct unpopular corners, a free-thinking, open-minded venue into a politically biased shithole.
I like your idea, OP, about email notifications of, for lack of a better term, SHTF scenarios.
If strict guidelines were laid out for what constitutes a super-pin worthy thread (that don't include political polls created by #1), then it would take a few seconds to script an e-mail notification option for upgraded members to receive e-mail notifications of super-pinned threads.