There used to be real posters and they didn't need to create all the controversy themselves but they lost a lot of loyal members with that Clover War thing and then lost even more when they developed particular personnas with outrageous quirks that never shut up. Those 'posters' originally upped the views and responses but that was because people were unhappy. When characters are based on being non-stop irritatingly stupid, people get tired of it and go to other boards instead.

It IS staged now and always has been, to a degree. Problem now, is that whoever's doing the staging really stinks at it. It's so 'in your face' obvious what they're doing that it's insulting and even worse, it's boring. MC needs a new choreographer because the one they have now is incompetent.