So, /q/ is open.What things about 4chan improve the experience?What detracts from your enjoyment of the site?This is the kind of info that will be useful to have from many posters; let's get it out there so moot knows what we think.>PositiveModeration here is effectively not applied to personal conduct. Posts and threads that are blatant trolling are occasionally deleted, but you can be as much of an asshole as you want and hold whatever opinions you please in a given discussion without being banned for it. There is no other community I know of outside of imageboard culture that permits this.> Example: I'm a fairly heavy /tg/ user. I also frequent rpg.net, which gets quality discussion of roleplaying and similar, but also has a very strong "don't be mean" policy and fast moderation of anything violating that. I can't tell someone I think they're an asshole, I can't discuss That Guy and why I want him to die in a motherfucking fire without being told "calm down".Anonymity. My views on why it's good pretty much align with what mootykins has said about it in the past. Again, outside imageboards, this is not heard of. A given post is judged only by its worth, not by the worth of the user. There are pros and cons to this, which is why 4chan is not the only discussion forum on the internet.Not selling out. Frankly, a lot of sites that revolve around memes are profiteering content farms. Look at the cheezburgr network, look at that place with a 9 in its name, look at what happened to ED. The fact that 4chan runs at a loss is unfortunate for moot, but the fact that it's not being monetised through ads up the wazzoo is good for posters.
>>95>NegativeSpeed of posting on /b/. I've been here a long time. I remember being able to post something without noko on /b/ and catch it on page one. I believe one of the reasons for the drop in creative output on /b/ is that it moves so quickly that less of the community will be looking at any one threat at any time. This means it's hard to get a lot of people noticing one thing at a time and liking it; thus, fewer things catch on and so memes don't get enough thrust to reach escape velocity and crash into their parent thread, never seeing the light of day.Arguments about what does and does not apply to a given board. Hell, arguments about what is/is not "/tg/" are the cause of much butthurt. This does not please me, as I'd rather spend time discussing things I like than seeing a metathread eating up everyone's attention. The only way I can see to rectify this, though, is heavy handed moderation, and we all know how that went last time.
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>>117Wowza
>>117We need to see more of this.
I don't really have an negatives to be honest; I'm mostly a lurker and not a poster so I generally skim through threads until I find one that entertains me.>PositiveI'm quite enjoying the increased posts on the front page of the board, since I hardly ever travel past page one anyway. It opens up more content to the viewer (which was mentioned as a negative in: >>108 )Ever since the removal of dubs I've noticed a slight increase in the quality of threads, as well as a significant decrease in thread derailment. Good stuff.Same goes for MLP nonsense.
Using the catalog improves my user experience, as someone also of /tg/ it helps me find threads from other pages without looking through the now-only-ten other pages that will inevitably shift around as I browse them.http://catalog.neet.tv/tg/ for the uninitiated. This view really should be standard, it is one of the greatest things ever.I like the archivers, both /tg/'s and the foolz on. /tg/'s because it's taggable, moderately searchable, and has a level of quality control that isn't on the foolz archive, which I use for searching for inane stuff sometimes.I like the 1d4chan wiki to help things get organized. I like wikis in general, really, especially small community-based ones.I like anonymity, but also the ability to tripcode, should the OP's identity be crucial.I like that moot hasn't sold out.
>>1627I DON'T like how moderation is as opaque as a fucking brick. I do not see mods and janitors as accountable. This might be coming from my experience in /tg/, but sometimes it is a mystery as to why people get banned, or threads get deleted. This leads to one living in fear of constant arbitrary banishment for posting something a mod doesn't like.I DON'T like how the report button does nothing.I DON'T like how people are shitposters.But, on the whole, I like 4chan. I like it a lot.
>What detracts from your enjoyment of the site?The constant push to increase poster identification across the site worries me, especially because it has moot's support. The entire ideology behind 4chan's existence is being betrayed.
