/v/ meta general
r9k destruction was the thing that killed /v/.
with that line of thought, should threads that are meta to a particular board be booted over to /q/ instead of being allowed to exist?
>>4232sure
/v/ really went to shit when people started taking the ''We hate video games'' joke seriously.
>>4232Yes?/q/ is /meta/
/v/ is fucking shit and will be fucking shit until moot gets more/better janitors/mods.
>>4241I thought /v/ went to shit in 2009 when spamming became more celebrated with doubles and all?
>>4253What are your thoughts on ban evasion? How do we counter it?
>>4255Doubles was our only means of self-moderation. If derailed an off-topic thread so fucking hard that janitors and mods simply couldn't ignore it and it would be deleted. Now all of the new people that came in, see someone calling their digit and see the reaction they get and think "I want to be the guy that gets all those people replying to him" and then they start calling their digits in both non-vidya and vidya threads.
>>4212What is this? Why am I here?
>>4261Don't give a fuck. Just delete the thread before the first 50 posts and you're golden. I know faggots like Jupiter are persistent, but if you simply delete their threads before they ever get going, they will probably give up eventually.
The problem is that /v/ = /b/ 2.0 and there is no way to cure that.
>>4269meta means self, we had a thread on /v/ discussing how we could improve quality and it 404'd so we moved here.
>>4283They cure /vp/ of furries. I'm sure /v/ can be cured as well. It will just take some competent janitors/mods.
The only way to made /v/ vidya again is to delete /vg/.I'm pretty sure the only damn reason that board was created is because feel/pizza/dubsfags were anal anguished about their shitty threads getting knocked off the front page with actual videogame discussion.I'm not even into the whole e-sports thing, but it least it was fucking videogames and it's a hell of a lot better than the shitposting nowadays.
I think the only way to cure /v/ is give everyone the rights of a Mod, and let them duke it out.
>>4312then we would stickies or /vg/ games on /v/ would be like futa on /d/.
>>4312>but it least it was fucking videogames See, that's a problem. The SC2 threads for example, were going really fast, and didn't actually discuss the game. Only streams, pro players, and kpop. You wanted to discuss the game itself? That was a problem.Katawa Shoujo threads, they were on 24/7, and very quickly devolved into some very off-topic shit.I agree /vg/ is a bad idea, especially since it allowed people to just move all their video game threads there to avoid the hundreds of "lol shit game sage" comments every thread, but it's not that simple to remove it
>>4312General posters won't be coming out of their threads regardless if they are on /v/ or /vg/. The split was bad but it doesn't matter anymore.
>>4312It would be so great if /vg/ and /vp/ got deleted. We would have great Pokemon discussions again and talk about video games more.
>>4368And furries and off-topic Katawa Shoujo threads on the frontpage 24/7 and off-topic SC2 threads on the frontpage 24/7 and off-topic LoL threads on the frontpage 24/7. Deleting those boards would effectively kill /v/ at this point.
>>4368rip any other video games. IT is like you guys were not even on /v/ during the vgas, that shitstorm is well deserving it's infamy.
>>4380If you're not using the catalog at this point, I don't know what to tell you. I'm not sure why you have a problem with Katawa Shoujo either. And no, because /v/ doesn't have any video game discussion left. Deleting those boards would bring it back.
>>4408I don't have a problem with Katawa Shoujo, I had a problem with it having 10 threads up at once. Have you been in the /vg/ KS thread? It's just people chatting. No videogames. Just people talking about how they're writing because of the characters and then other people wishing them good luck with their writing and shit.Using the catalog doesn't suddenly make the excessive amounts of same-topic threads go away.
>>4408I don't use the catalog because I use one thread at a time. I could switch for the bringing in of those threads but it would be painful for me to see /v/ celebrate games like lol and me3 like a bunch of whores. I would rather see /v/ dead.
I seriously believe that the only way to soemwhat imrpove /v/ is some nazi moderation and it needs to be very strict. I am not too fond of strict moderation, but /v/ is beyond saving without that. It's less fun for everyone, but maybe when things have calmed down and shitposters/retards have mostly left, the moderation could become slightly less strict again.There are still some problems left like the heavy abuse of certain terms like weeaboo or /v/'s obsession with reddit, but maybe strict moderation could imrpove that too.
>>4316/mod/ - Where everybody who enters it can become a moderator!
>>4420I would rather have people talking about that kind of stuff instead of feels.
>>4437But KS threads are basically feel incarnate.
>>4316>>4432Better idea: Reporting users will delete their posts, but only if you beat them in a match of vidya.The skilled shall rule.
>>4437KS General is feels fucking central. It annoys me because I know /v/ isn't all feels, especially when "that game" is mentioned, they rage beyond all comprehension. But it's simple shit like ">tfwnogf" and ">yfw Americalsp/Brtifags do X".To fix /v/, all we really need is some janitors that are on a lot and that aren't retards.
Bring back the whole 15-20 reports automatically deletes the thread. It really did deal with most of the shitposting.Maybe buff it up to 30 if you feel like it.
>>4446fucking this>guy asks for Holmgang>they both bet how much the loser will be banished for>best of three rounds of two across three games>one selected by instigater>one selected by defender>one selected by both
http://boards.[spoiler]4chan[/spoiler].o[spoiler]rg/q/res/4[/spoiler]053other fagits discussing /v/ with a gayer op pic
>>4468The only acceptable solution.It would be hard to implement though. The vidya would have to be somehow present in the site itself, so having anything but shitty flash games would be a problem.I'd love a duel-to-ban race on boat-o-cross though.
>>4504well if anonymous did not answer holmgang his argument would be thrown out the window and all the arguers with him in the thread will be treated like shameful faggots.
IDs on /v/ would be a start for some user moderation.
The "Should I buy" spam should be banned.It's impossible to discuss anything that contains anime-like visuals/JRPG (Persona seems an exception).
>>4559I'm pretty sure that's because there was that one faggot who constantly spammed Neptunia threads claiming it the savoir of RPG's or some shit and anyone who disagreed with him was called summer/new/normalfag. People caught on and that's where we are today.It was pretty sad.
>>4606I feel kinda bad for the people who want to discuss Neptunia but don't want to use /vg/
both /v/ and /vg/ (the little i go there) are just full of bad everything. talking about videogames is impossible because of all the strawmen, allegiance wars and trolling. get some good mods to take care of the most obvious offenses so it's atleast clear that something is being done.
>>4368>>4312Screw you both. Its obvious that the surviving members on /v/ want nothing to do with video games. Don't try to drag the safe haven of /vg/ down with you. It should have been obvious now that you are a quarantine board.
>>4626Why does serous discussion mean dicksucking/circlejerking for most people?
>>4639It seems to me people assume that if there isn't a discussion on whether the game is shit or not, it's a circlejerk.
>>4631also, /b/ overflow needs somewhere to go. a literal /b2/ or something. if /v/ starts being moderated they'll just migrate to somewhere else.
>>4662Let them migrate out, we've had to deal with their shit, now some other board can to.
>>4638made me chuckle a bit
>>4677For the most part though, people on /vg/ do not feed. Especially off topic threads as a whole. Also keep in mind that the poster there is most likely someone from /v/, coming to cause trouble in /vg/ for teh epic lulz xD. As usual.
>>4695right, as of course
>>4695>>4677Or it's because /gsg/ are the worse general thread.
Remember the week after the /v/-/vg/ split? Remember the quality of the posts? Remember the vidya? Why can't we always be like that, /q/?
>>4661I suppose then you do not agree?posting from >>>/q/4053#4527My biggest issue with /v/ is empty comments, let us say for instance somebody joins a controversial thread and says a game is fun. The post basically is nothing because there is nothing in the post. A lot of people like this for some reason though, and it seems like some people on /vg/ can talk for hours about absolutely NOTHING. I really don't see the appeal in just accepting discussion because it is vidya.
>>4729Here, let me help you out.>>4527
>>4724that week was the worst shitposting I have ever seen ever
I just posted this>>4749excuse me, I got excited when I remembered some of the pre-split shitposting, I am not sure what exactly you are talking about.
Not being able to discuss Japanese games without the thread devolving into a shitstorm really annoys me, and I don't even mean those moe loli games, even games like Chrono Trigger and Earthbound get shat on /v/ these days for being Japanese.
>>4729I didn't even like that the first time you posted it. Even baseless opinions about vidya are still better than most of the other shit that's posted there.
>>4671>>4662actually we could just have a board for all the /v//soc/ threads since they aren't necessarily an inherently bad idea as long as they stay very far away from the actual video game stuff. probably half the reason we're always so angry is that we can't talk to eachother about anything else than videogames which we always get mad about.
>>4759Endless redirects to /vg/ and B-B-BUT /v/ CULTURE
>>4724Endless butthurt spam: The week?How could I forget? Best fun in years.
>>4781/vc/, video game culture, or /nv/, non-vidya.
>>4759After /vg/ was created, my theory was that most of the poeple that liked to shit up /v/ moved over to /vg/ to shit all over that, because lolnewboard. I didn't visit /vg/ for a few months so that theory isn't concrete, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
>>4432...That's actually an interesting idea.I was once active in a forum with about a dozen members, all of them either mods or admins. Fun times were had.Imagine a 4chan board fully consisting of mods/janitors. That could be hilarious.
>>4794thisthose two fucking days of rulefags vs culturefags.
>>4802The people who posted, and post, on /vg/ are the same guys who sat in their generals 24/7. Pre or post split.The couple generals I visit (Dorf Fort, Roguelike and Minecraft) all have the exact same userbase as they used to have when they were on /v/.
>>4816>>4794Now that we have /q/...Just delete and ban everyone who posts about the rules or moderation or janitors in /v/.Problem solved.
/v/ has seemed better lately. Maybe because people who went to /vg/ to actually discuss vidya got sick of talking about only the same shit and are coming back.
>>4852Agreed. The board is finally stabilizing. Even the moderation is at an acceptable level now. Offtopic is of course still present but at least now the most blatant shit is deleted swiftly.
>>4794And i remember the butthurt being instantly deleted. Sometimes faster than i could report. So what's the problem? Yeah... I think i know what's the problem.
I went to an SC2 general today to follow the WCS qurea qualifiers and it was soul-crushing to experience how bad general threads have become. /vg/ should get off their high horse, because while they do have good threas rest of /v/ really doesnt need SC and LoL general back
>>4852>/v/>better nowWhat board have you been posting on?The past week what once was a seething undercurrent of shitposting has turned into a shitnami!The board is like motherfucking Japan except with shit instead of water and the shit overflowed the normalfag reactors and caused a nuclear shitsplosion. Everyone withing a 20 thread radius was fucking evacuated off the board and quarantined.
>>4879> Even the moderation is at an acceptable level nowNo it's not. Several vidya topics are being deleted by janitors for retarded reasons. Trolling or/and someone decided to shitpost/ spam porn in the thread. It happened several times. Instead of deleting the offenders, janitors are getting rid of the entire thread.
>>4894Over the past few days I've noticed shitposting being deleted within three or four minutes and plenty of actual vidya-related threads.
>>4902Any thread discussing Guild Wars 2 is a prime example. I've seen those threads disappear after like 100 replies, because of what happens in them.
>>4902> Instead of deleting the offenders, janitors are getting rid of the entire thread.To be fair, things like that (or threadbans) cut a whole load of workload. I remember a decent backlog thread getting spammed by furry images for about an hour a few days ago. Apparently the guy just used 4chanx or whatever to stack images and post while he went to play dota. The janitor deleted his posts, but that's an hour or so he could've spent deleting other off-topic shit off the board.The problem is when janitors delete actual video game threads, people just remake them while going "WHAT THE FUCK JANITOR YOU PIECE OF SHIT" at which point it either gets spammed and deleted again or deleted right away for complaining about staff/spamming the boardMaybe getting more janitors would help fix this issue
>>4882sc2 generals have been essentially /b/ for a long time now
>>4880You can just repost the thread, like people usually do anyway.>>4880Actually I liked that week>>4894Let me guess: You're letting ironic shitposts get to you?
>>4927to be fair guild wars 2 has potential to be slightly overrated, however no game discussion deserves that shitposting.
>>4949herp. top reply was meant for>>4902
>>4882The Dota 2 general is terrible as well. It used to be decent, but now it's just faggots posting their waifus and general shitposting.
>>4949we all had fun that week, ripest in years. I hope the next vgas are as shitty as they were for 2011
>>4949>Let me guess: You're letting ironic shitposts get to you?pretty much yeah.My fear is that they're going full "hussie brand" double irony where the irony loops back around and becomes serious.
>>4930>To be fair, things like that (or threadbans) cut a whole load of workloadThis is a horrible way of being a janitor. It gives the impression anyone can start shitposting on a thread to get it banned or deleted.And fuck /v/ mods, it's like we have the same team that moderates /b/. They make offtopic and trash topics as much as we do. I wish we had /a/ mods. They even sticky useful information.
The only times /v/ seems to work is during E3.There's never any noticable shitposting because it all gets FLOODED off the board by actual videogame discussion.
>>4979Fuck /a/ mods!I want the porn board mods! Give us a vidyafied /h/ or /d/ mod and there would be nothing but videogames as far as the eye could see.
>>4966aside from the raids/spamming and lol hate people do actually talk about dota even if they suck at it. it's not worse than the rest of /v/.
>>4973I'll make sure to pretend to do that some time.It's just a meme like any other. Soon enough people will get tired again.>>4970IF they're even held. Last year was such a success I doubt the team has motivation to aim even lower.
>>4979>It gives the impression anyone can start shitposting on a thread to get it banned or deleted.Oh, I agree. That's why I said I hope that adding janitors would help solve this issue.Also, to all those complaining about mods. Mods are global, janitors are board(s) specific
>>5007they will have nothing to worry about if they are trying to troll, problem is they might actually make a good one trying to make a shitty one.
>>4982I've noticed a few changes to the spam filter where it auto warns you if you post the same line a bunch of times in a row. Which does change the E3 live threads.I also noticed posting review scores sometimes get caught by the spam filter too, like eight point eight or even non-meme ones like seven point six (numbers obviously).
>>4231>implying it wasn't shit before that/v/ has a lot of retards but it's still occasionally good. It's a really "random" kind of board in its userbase. There are still some great posters and there are still a lot of horrible posters.
>>4998Their boards are much slower, so they require much less effort to moderate properly.You really think a /d/ mod would skip on his faptime to keep a lid on some retard with dynamic IP making shitty threads over and over?
>>5020>It gives the impression anyone can start shitposting on a thread to get it banned or deleted.I got caught by a threadban because of shitposters a few days ago. I'm starting to think it's getting to the point where if someone shitposts in a thread I posted in, I should go back and delete all my posts just to not get hit by the threadban.
I posted this>>4729here is an example>>>/v/150289639#150290106Why even post that? No argument, no nothing
Is there anything we could do about the furry infestation?I doubt we could make /fur/ again. People know about that April Fool's incident and would suspect that it would happen again.
>>5097continue purging them with fire and 10report forcedbans?
>>5097delete and banDelete. And. Ban. Other than that report it, hide the post and ignore it.
>>5047>I should go back and delete all my posts just to not get hit by the threadban.I knew I'm not the only one who thinks like thatAlso, while we're discussing moderation and off topic -Off-topic can be fun, it depends on both quality and quantity. A decent off-topic discussion every once in a while is alright. 100% videogame and nothing else, and the discussion will get stagnant. The problem is /v/ has no concept of self-moderation. We get the same unfunny /b/-level crap daily. What we had during the split was crazy, but it might be better to start from scratch and slowly allow off-topic again.Also, consistent moderation would help a lot.
>>5097since when were the furries ever a problem?there's this one autist who posts his terrible futa crap to spam and thats about it.I honestly dont see what would be wrng with a fur board either, it's not 2005 anymore. Moot said it's a no-go though so no point debating over it
>>5149The problem is that they exist in some minor contexts and have not yet been purged. Creating a furry board would create the guise that we suffer them.
HEY MOOT! GET RID OF THESE FAGGOTS AND HIRE MODS WHO'S QUALIFICATIONS AREN'T KISSING YOUR ASS ON IRC
>>5165The whole furry hatred thing was pretty funny (and warrranted) five years ago, but now I see thm as no worse than the rest of the deviants who gets a free pass on /v/It's more tradition than anything else
>>5207I am pretty sure /v/ has been shitting all over everything that moves, let alone deviancy. Even cp is getting shit on.
/v/ needs actually decent mods and janitors above all else.Forced id per thread like /b/ has might help some, but might not.Dubs should come back.
>>4321>>4334>>4420Learn how to filter.
>>5225trap shit is rampant, so is pretty much any other fetish that isnt gore, cp or scat
>>5138>the video game board should not be 100% video game-orientatedwhatA little bit of thread deviation is inevitable - acceptable, even - but to purposefully make threads which are for and about things that do not belong on that board is not only counter-intuitive, its only going to incur more and more. Where do we then draw the line? Especially so for /v/, if you are to give them an inch theyll only take miles and miles. The /vg/ split was a perfect example of that, there were people complaining that they werent allowed to shitpost and once moot greenlit a few of the off-topic "traditional" threads and called off the mods it just returned to the state it was before.
>>5261no, traps are getting shit on hard. I posted one as a joke and it was thrown away. Scat is actually never shit on because it is so funny it is bad
>>5279You must be on another /v/ than me
>>5165Not to mention there is an entire *chan devoted to furry shit.
>>5236>dubs>come backGet the fuck out.Dubs were one of the lowest points of /v/ today. Dubsfags are absolute cancer on par with bronies.
>>5269>A little bit of thread deviation is inevitable - acceptable, evenThat's basically what I'm saying, sorry if I phrased it badly. I'm aware that when you give the off-topic posters ANY freedom they go crazy (Again, /vg/ split)
>>5328I feel really bad about this but I thought dubs were hilarious :(Of course that shit was wayy overboard
>>5328It doesn't matter anyway because there are still faggots that say "check my 6" or some shit like that in every thread.
>>5328Dubs are fine when shitting up off-topic threads.The real faggots are the dub checkers who make threads for checking em or derail video game threads
>>5328Yea, maybe, but there's literally no difference now. People just do "5 GET" instead of "DUBS GET". Its just now the board moves 10% faster. And if we get some decent janitors, the idiots that abuse it will vanish anyway.
>>5355Not even close to how bad it used to be
>>4930That doesn't work. Chaptchas only last for 5 minutes, so the spammer would have to come back and type 10 new chaptchas every 5 minutes.I do not know how being a jaintor works, but I imagine it would help quite a bit if they had somethign like the 4chan x filter, but for deletion instead of hiding.
>>5365>Dubs are fine when shitting up off-topic threads.I don't get this logic. Why is your off-topic shitposting better than other off-topic shitposting? You don't get the thread deleted any faster. Hell, you constantly bumped them to the front page
A combination of actual moderation and a social change in posters what's needed to save /v/.The average poster still fails to understand how self-defeating it is to reply to all these off-topic threads, Jupiter or not. Then there's also the sudden rise in ironic shitposting. It's ironic that this happened in retaliation to cancer and now it's become a cancer itself.
>>5398Speaking of Jupiter, I'm surprised that he/she/it hasn't been rangebanned.
>>5365Dubs are never fine. Even a discussion about cp or furry is of higher quality than dubs spam.
>>5396Because if an off-topic thread gets dubs spam to hell and back, people leave because they can't talk about the off-topic shit. There's too much dubs. But the people who come into actual vidya threads yelling about dubs should be purged.
>>5396Because dubsfags are retarded.And as another anon pointed out, the single-digit dubsfags aren't nearly as bad as it used to be (though it does not excuse them for their behaviour)
>>5418>people leave because they can't talk about the off-topic shit.Okay, but people take their place and discuss their repeating digits or whatever.Stop pretending you helped the board, dubs were awful
What I hate most about /v/ is that the population is for the most part homogeneous. Sure, there's a bro-tier action fan there and an otaku old-school gamer there, but it is DOMINATED by PC gamers, most of which didn't start gaming until fairly recently (More specifically, most started gaming in the 5th to 7th gens, and didn't even make the slightest attempt at learning of the gens before) and virtually none of which have any awareness to anything remotely obscure. Furthermore, discussion is thusly dominated by steam threads and misinformed hate or praise of popular, generic garbage. Being the forefront of internet culture, we on /v/ should have the greatest knowledge of teh vidya of every other gaming community, but we only marginally surpass IGN whereas even the lowest of the low in communities such as Racketboy or obscure imageboards are far more aware of games and their worth than even some of the most quality posters of /v/.This is something that I feel cannot be reconciled without either a major board split or a fundamental change in the mindsets and behaviors of our community.Thanks for your time, I give tits as thanks.
>>5450I once again raise the idea of /vc/ video game culture
I personally think we need more visible moderation to deter people from posting. The kids that don't know how to ban evade will stop posting, and people who keep evading will eventually give up.I also think that the /vp/ and /vg/ split were incredibly retarded. People were complaining "BAWW PEOPLE ARE POSTING VIDEO GAMES THAT I DON'T LIKE". /vp/ was really stupid, considering how big the game is. The split came about because a pokemon game was going to get released and there were loads of threads leading up to the release, this happens to lots of other video games. There is only 1 real thread on /vp/ and those are the generals./vg/ was stupid because people were complaining about other people having big threads on their board.The "/v/ culture" faggots are truly the worst.
>>5414I know that it used to be the case that any trip with Jupiter in it was grounds for a permanent ban
>>5504Only if everyone gets banned from all other boards if you post in it
>>5519[spoiler]sure[/spoiler]I legitimately would like to see the board created
>>5414probably lives in a populated area, since he gets new ips so quick.
I'd also like IDs on /v/, even if it's just until we get new mods/jaintors. Being able to filter specific posters would keep the board readable even if someone goes full autism with their shitposting.
>furry acceptable and takes forever to be deleted>loli worst thing ever now>making fun of people dying is "dark and edgy">if you aren't normal you don't belongWe only had to listen
>try to discuss any Japanese video game>PEDOSHIT SAGE SAGE SAGE OBSERVE MY NUMBERSSo all I do now is browse the catalog looking for threads I dislike to shit up. It's not like I can discuss video games I like anymore.
>>5504The culture/off-topic bullshit would merely be a band-aid like /vg/. Sure some of the threads that were the problem would be eliminated, but the real problem is the posters. Not every bad poster posts off-topic or in generals only. The OP of that FPS thread? Probably is a shit-tier casual scrub. Everyone in the steam thread? Faggots who buy more shitty games than they play. I could go on and on, but I assume you get the jist. The only reconciliation I can think of involves labeling types of video game enthusiasts. Maybe a split into a hardcore vidya board and a core vidya board (as there is never a place for casuals), a /v/ for Japanese games and a /wv/ for western vidya, or perhaps the most obvious but likely least effective solution: a /pc/ and a /cv/ but the problem with that is over the course of the past 2-3 gens the line between PC and Consoles has been crossed time and time again with the "PCLite" audience who plays what should be PC exclusives on consoles.PCLite gaming, by the way is the bane of PC AND Console gaming and as a long-time console gamer with an affinity for creative, wacky, action-oriented, and/or Japanese vidya, I personally believe PCLite gaming is ruining console gaming by pushing all of what I'd consider to be console-style games to the wayside (handhelds and Japan-only).
/v/ermin here, it's good that /v/ is going downhill. I want this board to die.want to fix it? too bad, you can't.Actually there is a way: close it for 1 year and open it at a random date in 2013.Again, too bad you won't do it, because the loss of money and general income is too harsh to handle for you.
Couldn't we split the /vx/ boards along lines of platform? One board for PC, one board for consoles, one for handhelds and mobile devices.
>>5365>thread shitting and spamming is OK when I'm doing it!You're just trying to join in and be a part of some moronic /v/ kulture, don't deny it.>>5418Because it's that hard to make a new thread, right? If people really want to talk about something you won't stop them, the mods and janitors need to do something.>>5695Brilliant idea. Fracture the board into so many fragments you'll never find enough people to have a lively discussion with.
>>5651UGH I agree whole-heartedly that the rampant "westabooism" of /v/ is one of it's major problems, thing is I believe it has a deeper cause; that cause being the majority of PC-only peasants and kids who started gaming within a decade or so.
we have already quarterstaves two communties, maybe ponies too, one more won't hurt
>>5697I like this idea. I don't see it happening, but I like it
Ban the following words/phrases:leredditXDlelweabooweeaboodubsfeeltfw/v/ improved vastly already.Just bring back the post-week /vg/ mods and everything is perfect.Oh, and get rid of the shit mods that everyone hates.
>>5782>>5697well we have some representation, we could give it a go.
Remember when all those changes were introduced, and the mods were on full alert and doing really well at their job? And you could talk about video games and not find a dubs thread or a feel thread anywhere?What happened to that? I want to see it come back because that was the best state /v/ had been in in a very long time.
>>5755I think it's a combination of people who grew up on Halos of War Duty, people who shout weaboo to be cool and the shitposters who just like to derail threads. Board just needs some Facepunch-level mod naziing for a month or so.
>>5738>Fracture the board into so many fragments you'll never find enough people to have a lively discussion withWhen the demographics of the board inhibit me from finding ANYONE with whom to have lively discussion of quality video games, I don't see how splitting the board based on said demographics would make matters any worse.I can't discuss ANYTHING by Atlus or Nippon Ichi regardless of the quality of the individual game, when I've in the past had fantastic discussion of Summon Night: Swordcraft Story and various other Japanese/console/obscure/old games without being spammed by "lol shit-tier weeaboo filth gb2/a/weeb bethesda5eva johncarmack1luv."It's absolutely frustrating, and while I admit I've met cool posters with which I've had fantastic discussion (among them an action game fan who likes WRASTLIN, Platinum Studios, and arcade beat'em ups; and a stoner who plays Metroid, UN Squadron, and Shatterhand while baked), that discussion is incredibly rare.
>>5889As a person who isn't even a fan of japanese games, I completely agree with this. I see so many threads with japanese games in them get shit on by a trolling tripfag, a faggot trying to get a get, or someone shouting "weeaboo" for no discernible reason other than "I DONT LIKE ANIME BECAUSE IT'S STUPID."It's not even japanese games that are the limit of it. Sometimes I like to discuss minecraft because I think it can be a fun game, but I can never discuss it because it's shit up and sagebombed by people who don't like it. Sometimes, I like to talk about Skyrim because it's a sequel to one of my favorite games, Oblivion; but I can't because someone comes in and talks about how it's casual babby shit and proceeds to try to get number gets because we're not allowed to discuss games /v/ doesn't like.It's fucking ridiculous.
>>5697>income>4chanThat's a good one, I laughed.
The following killed /v/>closing of /r9k/>creation of /vg/
>>5870Shitposters cried, moot gave in. It will never change because moot LIKES /v/ being offtopic. So short of moot dying or 4chan being bought out, /v/ is condemned to /b/ 2.0 for eternity
>>5889That's a problem with the moderation. It's hard to have a thread about Solatorobo on /v/ without /b/tards spamming it with unfunny /tg/ memes or furries posting porn, but the solution can't be to make a /ds/, /handheld/whatever board, it should be to clear away the terrible posters.
>>5878Those people and who I'm talking about seem to be one and the same. People that claim superiority to them because they play(ed) equally generic, unimaginative filth like HL and CS disgust me even more so (and before you give me shit for thinking that, Arena FPS and corridor shooters cannot compare to Descent, Doom 2, Forsaken 64 or Metroid Prime).If I mention the only mod that can do the job, I'll get banned.
>>5956Creation of /vg/ was the best thing to happen to /v/ for a very log time.
>>>/q/4924This thread has some interesting suggestions. Check them out, fellow /v/irgins.
>>6010>dead
>>6023Nah, it's just a bad link.>>4924
>>5939>try to have a Recettear thread, a game /v/ once loved>"SAGE FOR PEDOSIM">Try a Yume nikki thread>"lol is that vomit girl? Sage pedofag">2hu>">>>/jp/ FUCK OFF WEEABOOS!">Monster girl quest>Space marine spammed>Artificial academy>"PEDOSIM SAAAAAAGE">Idolmaster>">>>/a/ fuck off r/a/iders!">Neptunia>do I even need to say it?And then theres the list of games we cannot discuss due to furry porn spam>Zelda>Sly cooper>Crash Bandicoot>Starfox>Solatorobo>Overgrowth>Mario Bros
>>6034they should make a weeaboo video games board, and a normal people video game board
>>6006Funny how /v/ didn't begin to get unbearably bad until we removed 90% of the vidya and gave shitposters an excuse to spam the remaining vidya with "FUCK OFF TO /vg/!"I've lost so many threads I loved because shitposters decided "posting this more than once a month? It's not a tortanic thread so SAGE GO TO /vg/!" and the poor thread couldn't stay alive in /vg/.
>>6034Are you the guy who posts those Ron Paul pictures in shitty threads?I like you.
>>6034Perhaps I'm missing something, but threads about games with anthro characters in them are more often ruined by people doing the "yiff in hell furfaggets get off my vidya" routine then they are by furry porn.
>>6041But there's already a board for normal people like you:>>>/b/Now stop shitting on my hobby.
>HEY I'M GRUMPStop this shit. Please.
>>6117your hobby is shit, post it on /jp/ or /a/ like the rest of your faggot friends
>>6103>>6103This. I'm more sick of the 40k autists because they are actually serious. Any posting of an anthro character is thrown into chaos. The furryfaggots are posting just to stir shit up. Just ignore and move on.
Also, I'd like to point out that I really wish people would stop pretending to viral. It really fucking sucks that I can't discuss borderlands 2 anymore without being accused of viraling. It's bullshit and it needs to stop.
>>6034I think Klonoa threads get spammed with furshit too.And what do you mean by Mario? You mean the Yoshi/Bowserfuckers spam those?
>>6134Videogames don't belong on /jp/ or /a/
>>6135A lot of /v/'s problems would be eliminated if people learned to stop responding to obvious shitposts.
>>6164A lot of /v/'s problems would be eliminated if people didn't shitposts.
>>6134>Implying I can only enjoy japanese video games.Unlike you I'm not a simple-minded faggot.>>6144Yeah, they're calling it 'bacterial' now.
>>6103Solatorobo threads go off just fine.And I just saw a Bowser porn thread earlier.And no one would yell "furshit" at Star Fox. The only thread that ever gets that is Overgrowth
>faggot spams vidya thread he doesn't like>Janitor/mod deletes threads instead of banning spammer/deleting spammer THIS SHIT RIGHT HERETHIS SHIT NEEDS TO STOP
>>6158Not him but some video games could be in either /jp/ or /v/ because I'm sure there's some otaku-pandering video games.Saying that /jp/ needs a fix to stop it from being /2hu/ but that's for another discussion.
>>6156Oh God yes.>Post Mario thread>10 posts later that picture of Bowser looking at the viewer seductively is posted>5 posts later...>"Why is he so perfect, /v/?!">2 posts later...>"I know, I just want to sit on his hard koopa cock!">1 post later...>begin Bowser porn dump>50-100 posts later....>404
>>613540k autists are one the most annoying fanbases, they're the physical incarnation of 'my x is better than yours everything'.
>>6174You eliminate shitposts entirely. People who overreact like 40kfags encourage the shitposting to continue, though.
>>6197Oh god this. They've essentially allowed the shitposters to decide what threads are allowed.>>6205They're uncommon enough that they don't bug me. If they're spamming your thread there is a 99% chance it was furry porn or pony shit.
An active mod would be nice.
>>6211*You can't beliminate shitposts entirely
>>6211Ignoring the furries sure is working out well. Now instead of one furry thread a week like we had a year ago, it's 7-8 furry threads or derails a day with a side of constant furry tripfags, avatarfags, and attention whores.
>>6198/jp/ has GUST threads and thats about it. Mainly because they discuss the games that havent gotten a translation. Sticking some sub-genre of games somewhere else just because you dont like it isnt helping anybody: if its a (safe for work) video game it belongs on /v/. No two ways about it. Getting a discussion out of it is another thing.
>Buckley/Webcomics LOL threads.I can't stand these and there's always one up.
>>5783>XD>Reddit (yes, no one should ever mention this shit site, what's the point, it onyl makes /v/ worse)>Hipster>Weeaboo (I know it was a wordfilter before, but I bet most retards don't even know the term wapanese)>Edgy>umad>Epic>that feel when/tfw>Pedo>[Insert company]-drone>Butthurt and other variations>am i cool yet?
