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Schools of Soyconomics
Soyconomics deals with the production of gems, engagement and memetic exchange.
Sovlcantilism was one oldest political soyconomies. It advocated that gem's value is derived from the amount of sovl each website has. As the value is finite, and gems cannot be extracted from sovl in unlimited amounts, each site needs to maintain maximal amount of gem and sovl inside. To maximize amount of sovl, site needs to limit adaptation of too many newfags and foreign memes, while exporting the power of it's own culture and assimilated users outside. Had an influence on early 4cuck, kiwifarms and butthurt oldfags.
Coalesian economics - assumes that gems are not due to inherent qualities, but due to their social utility. This means that the amount of gems only partially depends on the amount of original sovl. With the increased engagement, more users create new posts, increasing overall amount of gems. Thus, when the board stagnates, jannies should print more coal to increase engagement with forced drama and clittyleaking over coal. New gems produced from larger pph will overall compensate amounts of coal, which will be forgotten anyway. This school had a large influence on the Frootist and Quotist administrations.
Gemian School opposes Coalesians. Production of gems contains large uncertainties, new gems are unpredictable and vivian. In modern, interconnected fandoms and imageboards, moderation has no way of knowing which artificial engagement will lead to more gems, and which is a cancer killing the site. Even more, modern jannies cannot ever know, only guess which posts userbase considers gemmy and which are coally. Therefore, only unconstrained, free userbase can produce maximal amount of gems. This school of Soyconomics was important in Sootism and Luteism.