/r9k/ is the fucking same it always has been. It has always been full of "rate me" threads, relationshit, and whining. Nothing has changed, not a thing.

Take off your nostalgia goggles.

Things are slowly getting better. Camwhore threads are now constantly being spammed. I doubt the social awkwardness thread are going to stop though.

See this is why normalfags are as bad as smallpox was to the Native Americans.

>Why do you have to corrupt things I like?
>Why do I have no life?

Fix'd.

>>9470735
Only the relationships threads have been here since the beginning.

They're inconsiderate and think it's fine to post anything.
Yeah it sucks, but all you can do is post an equal amount of good threads.
The mods aren't going to do shit so it's all you can do.

>>9470735

It hasn't always been like this faggot.

I bet you came over to /r9k/ when moot posted up that link from /b/.

>>9470770
That's beside the point. This thread isn't about me, and that brings nothing to the discussion.

op, download 4chan firefox extension, start hiding the camwhore threads. ridiculous though that i have hid i think at least 5 or so threads in the last two hours.

>>9470808
> This thread isn't about me
Finally a thread that's not about somebody.
> and that brings nothing to the discussion.
Couldn't have said it better, this is why we're anonymous. What we are or have is irrevelant to discussions.

>>9470837
I could do that, but the thing is that it shouldn't be like that.

Can anyone recommend me a good image board?

>>9470855
only other image boards i enjoy from time to time are plus4chan.org and 420chan.org

>>9470855

SAoVQ
IIchan
Two of the slowest imageboards in existence, yet both of them are VIP QUALITY!

Or you could just try the text boards, not an attentionwhore in sight.

Also, threads from 2004 in there.

>>9470874
oh yeah, loopchan.org is shaping up quite nicely too. mostly cuz it's got a hipster sluts board which i'm hoping replaces the scene slut board from anonib

This is now a camwhore thread

I usually get annoyed by "4chan is going downhill" bullshit, but this is one thing I'll agree with. Who the fuck goes on an anonymous imageboard to post pictures of themselves? It defies logic. I don't even mind some of the other stuff that pisses people off, like the chatroulette threads. Having one-on-one chats with random people seems fairly in line with the spirit of 4chan to me. Posting your picture in the desperate hope that someone will give you an ego boost does not. If you want to do that, there are a million and one social networking sites where you can. This is not the place for it.

I fully support the spammer effort going on, but I wish they'd start saging instead of bumping the thread as they spam. Making them unusable is nice, but we need to get them off the front page as well.

>>9470735

No, you're fucking wrong. You are utterly, patently, categorically incorrect.

>>9471007
4chan IS going downhill, that much is obvious.
And if they saged they would take 15 seconds longer in between posts.

i'm kinda bummed because all the facefag threads jus got deleted and i didn't get to read all of Spiderman 2099 that was getting spammed into one

plus there was a weird little story about Arkham attached to it

>>9471039
Why is it that you can use that picture ALWAYS without being deleted?

>>9471024

I'm not going to disagree about 4chan going downhill, I just think that most of the time making threads about it is a waste of time. As individuals, we can't do anything about general post quality, and I don't think another thread about how much we need mods is going to make moot get off his ass and do something about it.

In contrast the most of the general shittiness of 4chan, camwhore threads give us something specific we can point to and say, "This is awful. This has to stop." I'm not sure what we can do about them (apart from the spamming), but at least it's a concrete problem.

>>9471039
She might have a script to change one random bit before posting.

>>9471024
Is that just on this board, or all boards?

>>9471090
> I just think that most of the time making threads about it is a waste of time.
Agreed on that.

As for dealing with the camwhores I would say the best solution is just making more good threads then stupid threads.

>>9471084
He has the power of Jesus on his side, man.

>>9471084
in pretty much the same way as i get asked that question repeatedly - because each and every one is a delicate and unique snowflake handcrafted just for you anonymous

Want to know what it is?

/r9k/ is the geekier, introverted, stay-at-home-Friday-night, older brother of /b/. We have pretensions--not necessarily bad ones, but they exist--we thought of ourselves as more intelligent. sensitive, mature and original. *Thought*.

Now we're realizing that originality can be just as trite as anything that's overdone. We're realizing there's a certain inhibition that our younger /b/rother possesses, a don't-give-three-fucks attitude that spams rate-me threads **because we want to be rated**, we want to get our dicks wet, and we're delusional enough--just like /b/tards--to think rate-me threads will get the job done, will form a more tight-knit, hilariously uncaring community, and that the gestalt of /r9k/ might one day add up to greatness..

>>9471084
s/he just opened it up in paint, saved a shitload of them with different file names to get around it.

>>9471309
But look..the two posted here look slightly different..or maybe it's just me

>>9471134

Yes, making more good threads would be nice, but the problem is that making a good thread takes a lot more effort than just reposting the "POST PICS RATE PICS" image with some filler text. The same goes for replying; "8/10 ur pretty hott" takes a lot less time than writing a post worth reading would. Even if people who want to make good threads outnumber the camwhores (and I hope this is true, but I have to say that it's not certain), we can't compete with them in terms of rate of posting without making our posts as shitty as theirs.

It's really just the standard problem that comes with having threads sorted by most recent reply: threads that are boring but easy to reply to get bumped while threads that are interesting but difficult to reply to sink. We really need some sort of community moderation system, but that doesn't seem likely to happen on 4chan anytime in the foreseeable future.

>>9471744
Alternately: rotate right, rotate left, save.

Its the summer the 16 year olds always come on and steal our shit.

>the social networks people, the socially well-adapted
No, /r9k/ attracts the social rejects who are desperate for attention since they have little to none in their real lives.

>>9471744
I deleted the post before you answered.

I was not thinking about that because I don't think there's someone with the will to do that everytime. A script is easier. (If you know how to make scripts.)

It doesn't have to be this way...

>>9470899