I think /v/ has themes on different times, and that we shouldn't worry about it too much. Hats, Waifus, Scribblenauts etc etc etc. Pokemon has been here a while but the real problem are the blatant troll threads with guaranteed responses.

OK then. I'll go play Chaos Legion while you homos reply to this thread.

>/v/
>video game board

>>8576545
Yeah, some stuff like DA:O and TF2 have died out a lot but X general threads are everywhere and most people only check the frontpage.

/v/ here
I dont really care if theres a pokemon board but newfags that spam LOLOL GO TO /PO/ HURR are the worst.

>>8576545

This. There used to be dozens TF2 threads daily back in 2008/early 2009. It's a fad, it will pass eventually.

The thing about the pokemon threads is that there is usually 3 threads up at the same time. It has nothing to do with one thread.

/v/irgin here. Scribblenauts was all hype, but no one talked about that shit after it came out.

I wouldn't mind if the fucking pokefags wouldn't make a thread when there are three on the first fucking page!

>>8576583
/v/ loves games. He's just not mature enough to admit it.

I also have a cool story to share with you /v/irgins. It was written by some drunken pedophile for us to read a while ago. It goes something like this...

A couple minutes later, just as the littlest, underaged /v/irgin said, a second /v/irgin came scrolling along the page. He was the second oldest of the /v/irgin bros, and was a hipster teenager. As he scrolled along the page, his Jack Skellington T-Shirt rustled in the wind, and his Timberland boots tromped about. The troll, already expecting him, laughed a terrible troll laugh, and jumped out at the unsuspected /v/irgin.

"WHO DARES TRY TO IGNORE MY THREAD?! I'LL TROLL THE SHIT OUTTA YA!"

The teenage /v/irgin promptly puffed his chest up high and responded proudly.

"Say that to my face fucker not online and see what happens!"

The troll lol'd hard, and simply said:

>implying I wouldn't kick your ass irl

The teenage /v/irgin was taken aback! No one had ever countered his Internet threats so casually before! Suddenly he didn't know what to do. The troll knew he had weakened the teenage /v/irgin. He cackled and evil cackle, and shouted triumphantly:

"IF THIS POST ENDS IN A 5, YOU DIE!"

But just before he could land a 5 GET, the teen /v/irgin shouted in objection!

"HOLD UP MAN! Don't do this! You don't want to be a casual troll do you? I mean, back in your days, trolling MEANT something. Trolling a hipster teen like me doesn't do jack shit for you! I mean, I'm so pathetic I might as well be trolling myself. No, someone like you needs a REAL challenge! Listen, I have one last bro that's coming here in a sec. He's an oldfag, and I can bet you'll get much more satisfaction trolling him!"

The troll paused, then replied.

"Heh, you're right hipster teen faggot! I don't need to troll the likes of you. Very well, you may pass. I will wait for your bro, then troll him so hard, he ragequits!"

Sure enough, just like the hipster teen /v/irgin promised, a second later a final /v/irgin appeared in /v/. He scrolled through the pages, scanning the threads one by one like a professional. One look at this /v/irgin and the Troll knew he was the real deal.

"Hmmm, this guy won't be so easy to troll, but that's half the fun! The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Still... I'd better bring in the BIG GUNS for this one!"

The troll reached into his festering, pulsating rectum and pulled out his ultimate weapon: a trip code. He donned the trip code, and instantly transformed into one of the most horrid creatures on earth. The feared Tripfag-troll. Now empowered more than ever before, the troll leaped out from behind his post and screamed a grating, deafening screech:

"WHO DARES IGNORE MY THREAD?! I'LL TROLL YOU SO HARD YOU KILL YOURSELF!"

The eldest /v/irgin stopped dead in his tracks. He slowly raised his head and looked straight into the troll's eyes. The troll could barely contain his trollish smile. Heh, got 'em, the troll thought... all he needs is one final push.

The troll stooped low, until his towering form could meet the eldest /v/irgin's gaze eye-to-eye. He puckered his lips and whispered in a tone that would shatter even the Grim Reaper himself

"...u mad?"

The troll waited. Any minute now, the eldest /v/irgin would react. Any minute now... he would hear a cry of anger... of the greatest agony a person could experience! He waited for the crowning moment, when the his victim would... rage.

...But that moment never came.

The eldest /v/irgin, with his stoic gaze, stood unfaltering against the troll's savage blow. After a split second of silence, the /v/irgin spoke. His words strong and adamant, without even a tinge of weakness:

"Sage'd and reported."

These scripts stabbed at the troll like razor sharp knives. How could someone act so coldly at his antics. It was impossible! The troll was so shocked, he stumbled backward and tripped over his own feet. Then, in one deft movement, the eldest /v/irgin struck. He raised a hand, and promptly closed the troll thread faster than the eye could see. The troll had not even the time to scream in agony before darkness overwhelmed him.

Victorious, the eldest /v/irgin continued scrolling across the page until he met up with his two other bros.

"What has happened to the troll?"

They asked meekly.

"Fag status:

[x] Told
[ ] Not Told"

He replied simply...

The two younger /v/irgins looked guiltily into the eldest /v/irgin's eyes.

"We're sorry bro. We betrayed you to save our own asses."

The eldest /v/irgin merely smiled gently, and replied:

"Don't worry about it. We tru bros 4 life."

And together, then went to post about video games.

The end.

I think there should be a few stickies for the popular games (Pokemon and whatever else is flavor of the month) and making other threads about them is forbidden and a bannable offense...assuming the mods ever decide to do their jobs.

>>8577417
Well, stickies take up frontpage space so it's still gonna take a lot of space. Perhaps there's better ways to deal with this issue.

>>8577230
>"Don't worry about it. We tru bros 4 life."

Manly tears, man.
I'm the oldest brother and everytime my little brothers screw something up and I have to fix it and they feel bad about it, I just smile and say everything it all right.
Of course, not all times.

Oh wait, this doesn't have anything to do with anything.

Well, anyway, don't worry about the Pokemon threads. It will fade away. They are only continuing with this shit because they made some good OC lately (Nuzlocke, some Fanfiction thingy by Fungus Among us) wich helped to boost the subject of those threads. It will all soon end and it will return to just A thread instead of one general and three more about random things in pokemon/questions/rate my teams/art work dump, etc.

>>8577535
What's Nuzlocke? Was it recent? If so, it could explain the surge of pokethreads considering HG and SS came out this year. Also, glad you liked the story.

>>8577417
>>8577499

Remember the Brawl sticky? 1260 posts later, "If shit is coming out of your mouth THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU".
You can't trust /v/ to stay in topic, even more so in a sticky. Honestly, just try and see if the subject would be Pokemon only, at least in 70% of the posts.
Spoilers: It won't. It would need a mod to babysit the thread and moot already said it's hard to find new mods, because of various reasons I don't want to say because I want to keep this short because I hate making a long post and the thread ends.

Pokemon has ALWAYS been a problem in the sense of there always being too many simultaneous threads for it. Since like freaking 2007 or 2008 at least.

But on the other hand there used to be a lot of Pokeporn/furry threads there too so I guess it's improved in that sense.

>>8577705
Yes, I am aware of moot's dilemma when it comes to moderation. That's why I thought a new board for long /v/ threads would help as /games/ is full of spam and people probably hate how slow it is. Plus, the lack of images drives many away unless they dig ACSII.

>>8577686

www.nuzlocke.com

It's a comic made by some guy, it's really recent. Check this link for more info and check older pages for the beggining of the comic.
The rules are:
"Release a pokemon if it faints and can only catch the first pokemon in each area", if I'm not mistaken.
But some hurp durps made some extra rules, like "no items outside of battle", "Only 1 pokeball per mart", etc.
It spawned a lot of threads and variations, I don't know if people still talk about it. I hardly, if ever, read pokemon threads. They move too fast and people only read your post if you post a image or spoilers (just like in green text threads)

>>8577705
You mean this gem of a thread?

>>8577853

Yeah, but think about it. Isn't it better to tell /v/ as a whole to stop sucking, inforce moderation (like it is right now, some troll threads are still going god knows why, though) instead of having to open a whole new board for the non retards?
/r9k/ should be a better /b/ but look at how it is now.

>>8578242
/v/- medical advice

>>8578242

Yeah, that one.

notoriginalmyfuckingassmootI'llfuckingstabyou blocks.

>>8578346
True. Although we're not really sending all bad posters somewhere else. We'd be simply moving all threads that would otherwise take a lot of space on /v/ somewhere else. A good example of why this is a good idea is...remember moot said he'd make as relationshit board to help /r9k/?

Well, he instead created /adv/, but that didn't really help so maybe it's a bad example.

>>8578523
And the whole /adv/ comparison is there because moot made a sticky that said "pokemon board y/n/" along with the current one. Most people said YES MAKE A POKEMON BOARD. But I think a board for long discussions would be better than just a plain pokemon board.

>>8578523

Yeah, opening up a space for certain threads to go doesn't exactly mean it will help to solve the problem. They might not go, moderation will have to inforced again, etc.
Although the mods in /r9k/ couldn't really ban the relationship fags because this board doesn't have a subject.
Or I guess they could.
...Yeah, they could.

>>8578721

Also, a pokemon board would be really troll bait. At least it would help to filter the tripfags/anons who only come to /v/ for posting in a pokemon thread, wich I think it's really stupid. The good thing about /v/ is that we get to know new games and talk to people with various points of view. And to call eachothers fags. And fap to shota.

>>8578823
I know a pokemon board is a bad idea. But moot asked /v/ whether should create one or not which worries me a bit. What if they make one? I think it'd be a bad move.

cool /v/ thread guise but check out my dubs

>>8578900

Well, actually, a board for long game discussions would also be pretty troll bait. "POST ITT IF YOU AGREE THAT THE MGS STORYLINE IS THE BEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO MAN XDDD
________
INSERT TROLL SIGN HERE"

And things like that. It has the potential of being a good idea, but come on, it's motherfucking /v/.
And /b/ on the starting weeks.

>>8579121
>but come on, it's motherfucking /v/.
Reality hurts man :(

>>8578721
Text boards are supposed to be used for long discussions. Nobody uses them though. Most people don't even know about them.

waifu needs a word filter ban.
moralfag needs a word filter ban.

(check out the new report opition on the report screen, gonna be good for stream threads and imagedumps)

Anime shit and avatarfags need to be banned, there's fucking 10 boards for this shit and /v/ ain't 1 of em.
Hentai games need to be kept off the board.

pokemon board is a good idea, not to clean up /v/, but just so pokemon as a whole can be discussed, I know I'd be there a lot.

>>8578242
That wouldn't work just because 4chan has grown exponentially. If you post a sticky, expect a 1000 posts and the image limit to be capped in 5-10 minutes.

I remember when it took almost a week for /b/ to get to 5000 posts in a sticky thread in early 2007.

It worked back then, but it won't work now.

Also we better get the /pkmn/ board up soon, less the trolling of /po/ will never end.

>>8579365
Yeah, I mentioned /games/ earlier in the thread. It's a shame it's full of spam and moonrunes

I for one would enforce forced Anon.

>>8579573
what good would that bring?

A /v/ regular here.

I think the idea for boards dedicated to specific franchises is pointless. Sure, Pokemon encompasses more than games, but it doesn't need it's own damn board.

/v/ is for video games, even if that isn't how it's always used. Pokemon is, primarily, a video game. So, it belongs on /v/ (and [a/ is fine, too). If you don't like threads about Pokemon, then just ignore them. At least they're on-topic, unlike all the threads about stuff that... well... isn't about video games. And if you're on Firefox, you should have the 4chan extension installed, so you can minimize threads you don't want to see (it's what I do about the Mass Effect, Halo, etc. threads).


Heh, non-ASCII characters not allowed? That's interesting.

>>8579732
>Heh, non-ASCII characters not allowed? That's interesting.

Yeah, sucks not to write Pokemon properly.

>>8579732
Minimizing threads still takes up frontpage space :/

>>8579365
I should go there more often, but I know when I post I will talk to like three people and half the posts will be some moonrune spam.

I also think janitors/mods are pretty weird in general. They delete video game related stuff they don't like. For instance, I created 3 consecutive turn based strategy/real time strategy threads and they all got deleted. i waited a bit and the fourth one survived for a while until it 404'd.

>>8579998
http://www.4chan.org/flash/?file=4chanmod.swf&;title=4chan+Mod

>>8580481
A legit post. Too bad it'll be spammed and mocked.

>>8580481
But not everyone plays pokemon and there lies the problem :3

>>8579998
Weird, I never got any of my threads deleted.

>>8580481
Never cared much for Pokemon threads since I haven't played a Pokemon game since Gold. So what do I do? I ignore them and instead post in threads I like, but it seems some /v/tards can't do that, they just have to ruin every thread they don't like. It's sad really.

On another note, we can have pretty good Monster Hunter, Stalker, etc threads and in general games were you play with other people online. /v/ just likes to play with other bros and have a good time, until some jerk or tripfag comes in to ruin the party.

>>8580882
It's kinda funny. Most fighting game threads are full of bros until some tripfags start dumping porn or those guys who keep saying MERK over and over ruin all discussions. I still like those threads but I wish all other tripfags could be more like Nergal.

I'd support a Pokemon general board when Nintendo actually releases a good Pokemon game, instead of reboots and marginal upgrades.

A full-fledged innovative 3-D RPG with an actual storyline would justify the hype, which is still going after all these years.

>>8581381
>good pokemon game
stopped reading there

>>8576373

>Complaining about video games on a video game board

HURRRRDURRRR HERP

>>8576813

Same here.

Look at monster hunter. We have almost daily threads, but it's all contained in one single thread at a time. It doesn't bother anyone, except the asspained retards who are too casual for the game and decide to troll it (like you, Malkav, you faggot)

>>8583026
Since when is Monster Hunter difficult? It has a horrible control scheme and that's it.

WHY DONT POKEMON FAGS MIGRATE TO 420CHAN WHERE THEY HAVE A POKEMON BOARD.

all you /v/irgins should just sage their threads and link them to that board. EVERYONE FUCKING WINS. What 4chan really needs is a rateme/post yourself board so all the retards can just do it there.

>>8583691
But then you're on 420chan, and that's no good.

>>8583742

oh ffs, get over the different coloured background. atleast they will accept your discussion, rather than the rest of /v/ getting pissy at your thread.

It's sad that I make a Wild Arms general thread and it gets ignored, causing me to have to samefag it 4 or 5 times to get at least 1 review but I make a Pokemon General and I refresh once and its got 5 replies already.

thing is, pokeman is big enough that I feel its own board would at least be as popular as ones like /po/
its also more than just the games, they have the some and them japanese comics that are backwards.
hell, the other day when they were ruining /po/ by posting there, /v/ was pretty damn good.

>>8583691
He should totally do that and like with the old /fur/ board perma ban every faggot that posts in there.

>>8583969
Hello Mr Chen. Also, that is why my idea would work! It gives other kind of threads a chance. Just think about it.

Touhou, VNs and other obscure Japanese shit has its own board, why can't pokemon have one?

>>8584042
Bceause it would derange into pokeporn dumps. I think having other kinds of threads around in addition of pokemon for the new board would keep that in check somehow. Maybe. I am not sure.

>>8583983

that would actually be epic...

lets organise a hostile takeover of /po/ and turn it into pokemon. it would have to be circulated throughout the chans, get 420chan's /po/ board in on it and just turn "papercraft and origami" into pokemon. Fuck moot and his crazy ideas, he just went and fucked over /r9k/, lets just take /po/ over...

>>8584188
No NO NO. That is wrong. Stop it at once. All that spam will do no good.

>>8584104
that'd be as frequent as non-vidya on /v/ at worst
bad, but the board would be plenty usable.

/v/ doesn't really need fixing, a community always starts to suck when it gets too large and unwieldy. what could make it better in the meantime, though, is getting rid of XXX and 30 day bans. it would give time for the non-shitheads to straighten out the board culture and trolls would find somewhere else to go and hopefully never come back.

>>8584188
hurr epix raids ftw ANON IS LEGION XD

>>8583969
maybe if you posted something worth half a squirrel turd, rather than the same 5 fucking pictures of a japanese coloring book, dropped the trip, and grew up a little, people wouldn't ignore you, and filter you.

>>8584188

the biggest question is: Would it work...? Are there enough pokefags and bored /b/tards as well as the minority of /v/ that likes pokemon to make every post in /po/ a pokemon post and keep it that way... That requires dedication, something i havent seen on any chan since 2006.

give /b/ their fucking numbers back, /b/ has been shit for years just let the retards from facebook stew in their own filth over there instead of fagging up the rest of 4chan with gets and doublesfaggotry and hookup threads and rate threads

>>8584329
Your idea is a bad, unproductive one that can only create more conflict. Please stop it.

>>8584188
No. Just no.

>>8584042
Technically, it'sthe Japanese culture board. So, anything that would relate to Japan but doesn't fit into other categories (games, anime/manga, etc.) would go there. I know HOW it gets used, but that's how it SHOULD be used.

>>8584308
Riiiiight....

I'm the one that needs to grow up because i'm the one raging at someone because they have a trip.

also

>Japanese coloring book

Motherfucker.

>>8584329
POKEMON IS A VIDEO GAME, IT BELONGS IN /v/.

God, it wasn't even that bad, there were plenty of non pokemon threads for everyone that wasn't interested in them.

OP, if you made another board for video game discussion, then what the fuck is /v/ there for?

I'm sorry Monster Hunter is getting in the way of your reaction image threads.

it's stupid how many threads are made about it, it was getting to the point where it did need its own board. seriously. /v/ was nothing but VIRALAN RED DEAD SHIT, POKEMANS, AND DUBS + FUCKING GAMESTOP. that was literally the whole board. also random greentext non vidya threads.

>>8584522
lol speaking of reaction images and >my face threads glorious leader moot happens to like them so there's nothing you can do about those heh

There's only ONE reason why there's LOTS of Pokemon threads atm.

There's a new one coming out. That's it.

Look at TF2. There were TONS of those threads when that game came out.

>>8584188
At first I was like "Fuck year!" but when you think about it, what's the point seriously? I think we should just let the origamifags keep their board.
Maybe moot should give them a different one?
Call it /cr/ for Crafts.

>>8584522
No, you see all those X general threads? Let me quote the rules:

>Please refrain from reposting. If possible, try to skim the board for threads pertaining to your topics/info that may have already been posted.

/games/ is supposed to be the long term discussion game board but it's in pretty bad shape.

>>8584459
>>8584430
>>8584400

hey, most people on this thread seem to be against all the pokemon stuff going on at /v/ and think it requires its own board. Meanwhile /po/ exists and hardly does anything... 2+2=4.

I dont see how it is a bad idea, and would actually be fun and unite anon for a while in another silly raid...

explain exactly why /po/ needs to stay the way it is???

If you take stalker polemon mass effect and monster hunter out of /v/ you'd have almost no threads about video games. The correct response to these threads isn't to make one whining and complaining. If you want to talk about a different game make a thread for it.

>>8584542
Do you have proof that Red Dead Redemption threads are actually viral shit? No? Then shut the fuck up.