I think a primary thing that could help grow the site is having genuine HAPPENINGS threads instead of A&H "da jooz" vs "da juice" threads that they always turn into. It's a real problem for site regulars.
Proposal: auto-highlighting in threads that have been marked as LIVE HAPPENING (or some shit) be turned off, or ignore "negative" reactions or weigh and ignore things with the

head.
Because it's a fucking nightmare to be in a live shooting thread and trying to find updates that aren't the A&H known entities fucking off as usual. The Kirk thread after you banned a bunch of threadshitters was much nicer. Maybe you need dedicated highlight mods or something, because going through an active ICE shooter thread and the highlights are NOT the post with his dox, or the post with his roof painting, or even the post with his sister's butthole; this is not the farms.
THEN: lock that shit behind closed (account) doors. Fucking unlogged in niggers can read A&H joozposting, but if they want up-to-the minute live reporting (which KF is fucking pretty damn decent at, as an aggregator at least, if not a primary source), then they can get a fucking account.
Or maybe highlights could be flagged as "political sperging" kind of like old slashdot meta-moderation, and a setting in profile could turn off "political sperging" highlights.