As a relatively new player who is just starting his INCIT career, I can’t really comment on how the game used to be compared to how it is now. All I can really say is that often times the game is in dire need of players, good or bad, otherwise games take way too long to play and generally out of the 5 minimum submissions, a low percentage are vote-worthy, which leads to mandatory dump-voting. Sure, some people post stupid ****, but at least the games continue unfettered. Nobody is really injured by bad sumissions, and adding rules just makes the game harder to play for the rest of us.

And sure, you can take a couple of Tempus****it’s ****ty wins and make an argument that all INCIT submissions are stupid and that’s why it’s failing, but I’ve seen many of his entries that are really funny and those ones are not indicative of all submissions at all. The main issue is a lack of players, not ****ty submissions. ****ty submissions can be ignored; lack of players means no games at all.