Reading Doll's comment on his AMA, I think there is literally no way to save the sharty anymore
The sharty's culture has been dying for months, and it's biggest thing rn is still slopjaks, which is an exclusive 'ru creation.
Most of the people who used to be part of oldfag culture have left, and it seems like the average age of the sharty user has decreased a lot.
I can't attest to the difference in gore spam and political discussions, but my guess is that those too have increased.
It seems to me there's been a downward spiral going on where the site gets shittier, and good productive members leave, making the site shittier, making decent members leave, et cetera.
I blame that mostly on the bad actors that are 'cord members, obsessed splinter spammers and overly sensitive political teenagers who spam gore at the first offense, but also on the fact that nothing interesting has been happening, or at least less and less. But the two are correlated, bad actors who are usually teenagers are incapable of patience and participation in slowburn projects, therefore there are none.
And it isn't going to be better, it's just gonna keep getting worse until the sharty turns into the jarty, and that's the bottom line.
The only way one could save the sharty is by somehow getting rid of all the bad actors, which is something every admin has been trying and failing to do, and somehow bring in more good posters, but I honestly don't see how that happens.
Don't get me wrong I wish for the sharty to succeed, but I don't think it's possible at this state