The level to which I just do not care cannot be measured, for it is more miniscule than the microscope of a bed bug that has been minaturized by a shrinking ray.

its done the opposite of improve actually, its terrible

but, its still the /v/ i know and love, and i know there's no other place on the internet worth going to once you've been on 4chan this long

She can't Beatrix
She needs boobs

It kind of makes me sad/mad that the original culture (especially some of the jokes about moot, Snacks, and 4chan itself) has kind of died down.

>hot Beatrix cosplay
>she is flat

;_; why would you do that

>>73890444
Indeed. Most other places are just like here, but without the anonymity, which somehow makes it worse.

I find entertainment on the boards I visist, but /b/ is just udder garbage and really gives the site a bad name. Also going on 420chan a lot, they just despise this place as a whole when there are some good boards on here.

But no, OP, it has gotten worse.

Meh. Its still pretty shit. Can't find a thread about a game without at least half the posts being shit troll posts.

/v/, at least, has gone down the shitter.

Back in the day people actually had threads about games.

>>73890522
>>73890559
I do think that apart from that, she is the best Beatrix I've ever seen.

>>73890548
True that. It was kind of nice when it was revisited in those /v/ rage comics.

Then again, I think that relying too much on that culture makes it some kind of secret club house, which is just stupid.

What the fuck happened to /b/
All it is now is just a big camwhore board
Are there really that many insecure Facebook whores?

>>73890715
>>73890654
When do you think this started?

I have mixed feelings about /v/ itself. Sometimes I am part of wonderful threads, but sometimes it really is all hate and trolling (for instance, all those new Dante threads).

when 4chan started raiding in 2005, especially with big ones that were all over the internet like habbo hotel, the entire site was doomed

suddenly thousands of retarded manchildren started flooding the site spouting things like EPIC FOR THE WIN XD
by 2007 this kind of behavior was found all over the internet, no longer was /b/ the cesspool, it was everywhere
By 2009 it was done spreading into real life, 8 year old children spout memes while playing during recess, they base the games they play on internet memes and /b/ shit

now imagine what these people will be like when they grow up

>>73890559
>flat

Fucking retard.

>>73890888
Apparently yes.

I do sometimes wonder how /b/ turned into a dump. I mean, the only reason it's still there is to prevent the shit from leaking, which it sometimes does anyway.

>>73890993
>now imagine what these people will be like when they grow up

I... don't think I want to.

>>73890715
even back in the day we had off topics, but what we didn't have was grade-school levels trolls like manly tears, and grade-schoolers who perpetuate them

/v/ was just a bunch of decent dudes,mostly talk about video games and shit

now its "LOL I TROLL U, NO I TROLL U BETTER, TROLL TROLL TROLL IM SUCH A GOOD TROLL"

>>73890548
I especially miss all the draw-whores. Sure, they were mugging for attention, but at least they brought original content. I miss Player 1 and the Ditto guy.

What's worse is that the vacuum is being filled by a bunch of morons shitting up all of the boards with /b/ material, hence the XXX and captcha. I'd rather have a slower board with a higher signal-to-noise ratio; at least then the threads with more potential have more face time.

I reported your thread because not vidya

but goddamn

post more beatrix

>>73891146
Yup. 2008 was pretty bad too but I feel the last few months have been the worse it's been 90% of the time.

Every now and then /v/ really shines though, but you have to trawl through a shitheap of raw sewage to find it.

>>73891176
Seconded. They were indeed whoring for attention, but their shit was at least entertaining.

I think that OC is what I miss most from "old" 4chan.

Improved? /b/tards normalfags started to migrate, I want my japanese games only /v/ it would be /b/ free, I just know it.

I think 4chan is steadily getting shittier and shittier.

>>73891176
Oh, that Player 1 guy was nice, I wonder what happened to him. Sad thing is, I think captcha only fixed the automated spam. Threads were less shitty for a while, sure, but now people have grown used to it.

>>73891146
I know people who think that trolling is fun and make every attempt possible to troll what they don't like. It's really sad.

>>73890888
Id say the biggest problem is its overrun by normalfags. And Gayfags. Can't go there without people talking about normal shit or having gay threads. I can't remember the last time I saw a real good porn thread on /b/.

>>73891300
The philosophy of letting people do whatever they want to promote people to create better content doesn't really work when there are hundreds of post every minute, shit threads that cause a controvert get bumped constantly because everyone has a goddamn opinion, and these are almost never about video games. Meanwhile, threads about video games, which generally are only cared about by the people who like the game disappear to page 5 in 10 seconds.

No.

The older this site was the better it was. Although Captcha did straighten things out quite a bit, but I can see signs of terrible /v/ popping through.

Also, thank god I can enjoy Pokemon threads now, /vp/ is fun as shit. Great players, great artwork... oh, and gay.

>>73891436
Surely it will have to cease sometime, right? You can't get much worse than it currently is.

>>73891300
Amusingly, the last time I had fun here was during those homosex generals.

Who would think.

>>73891449
>I know people who think that trolling is fun
i'll never understand troll mentality, do they jack off to being called a faggot or something?

>post something fucking retarded
>get called a retard
>TROLLED U GOOD

its also reached a point, where i can't even tell if people are trolls, or just fucking stupid anymore

4chan used to hate women, faggots, and niggers. now the majority of the posters here are women, faggots, and niggers.

Gotten worse, no question.

>>73891494
People who like the game, and people who like to troll the game. That keeps wow threads going for 200 replies 10 times a day, but when its something like suikoden, which most people either like or have no opinion on, good luck getting to 50 posts once a week.

>>73891634
I have a compulsive need to troll trolls. I can't fathom why anyone would go into a thread about a game they don't like and spend an hour there trolling people.

I only browse /v/

but I can tell you there has been a HUGE improve in quality of post since the new mods, and ESPECIALLY when it's around noon Euro time.

Usually when it's late afternoon and late night Euro time (right now it's late night, 1am) more than half of the threads on page 0 are non vidya. At noon it's mostly everything vidya.

The biggest problem is that mods don't seem to really care. They see non vidya threads all the time without deleting them and only decide to take action in some cases (I'm basing this on how recently mods have started coming in the middle of long non vidya thread saying LOL IM GONNA B& YOU ALL, instead of actually deleting the thread asap and also deleting all the other non vidya shit on the board)

>>73891494
I think /v/ would be a much better place if people would stop trying to justify where they spend their money. You can't finish a vidya thread without trolling because someone didn't like the game and thus decides to ensure the world knows the game is shit because he says so.

im gunn say no sadly OP

theres waaay, waaaaaaay to many kids now avatar faggin this place up with their emotes pictures. its insane

back then, only like ONE GUY was doing it and noone cared but now

>dur hur i gotta be popular with the current cartoon so i gotta represent that in my avatar

seriously?

People still care.

I still hate newfags.

>>73891468
>Gayfags

lol

Anyways, there was a time when /v/ roleplayed, talked about video games and it was a really fun place to be. After 2007, everything changed and now it's in the current state you see today.

My personal screencap collection has been lost, but /v/ was almost an entirely different place in 2006; a much better place.

Someday, I hope that will come back; that this is just a temporary era of shittiness and that all of the other veterans that left 4chan forever in 2007 will come back. Maybe someday...

4chan as a whole has gotten worse over the years, but /v/ in particular. This place has always been toeing the line between "OK" and "shit" but in the past year alone it's taken a hard turn toward the latter.

I knew the day that a Megaman thread was spammed for being Weeaboo Shit that /v/ was lost and gone forever.

>>73891327
Damn straight! Some friends and I who frequent /v/ have been working on Flash videos as a way of hopefully contributing original content, but real life has been getting in the way of finishing up development on the first video.

Pic related; it's me with my friends. We call ourselves The Repair Shop. Instead of just bitching about games, we break down their flaws and figure out ways to fix them.

>>73891634
Apparently yes, and I agree with everything you just said.

>>73891782
The problem is, usually this "trolls trolling trolls" mentality is what ruins thread. If people would just IGNORE the trolls, things would be much better.

>>73891786
Ah, indeed, there are times where /v/ is good. Unfortunately, we live in a planet in which there are timezones, so it gets difficult to see which times are those.

I think this board would suck less dick if our idea of a discussion wasn't angrily responding to people whose opinions are different or dissent from the majority. In some cases it makes for a pretty good back and forth but odds are likely that you are just setting yourself up for an internet battle that goes nowhere.

All I do is post reaction images and add idle comments, I cant even reply to most of the shit that goes on because I don't care or I don't play many current gen games.

>>73891905
>there was a time when /v/ roleplayed
I just remembered Future Guy. Damn, I wish I still had his threads.

>>73892064
Indeed.

Funny thing is, in these kinds of threads most people seem to know what is wrong with /v/ and are usually spot on. Pity we are few.

/v/ went to shit the moment video game threads started getting saged.

It's worse.

Definitely worse.

I remember when /v/ wasn't /b/ vers. 2.0.

Yet still I come here to talk about the vidya and sometimes someone will post something that will give me some occasional lulz.

>>73892466
Yeah. The "your game is shit, sage" crap is bullshit. I don't care how shitty the game is. Just fucking ignore the thread.

>>73890993
Much agreement. I love the Epic Fail Guy but the entire Guy Fawkes mask thing ever since V for Vendetta started showing up, things started going down really fast. At least back then it was communal trolling: now it's just guys masturbating to their self-proclaimed wittiness.

This is probably the only thing everyone can agree on: 4chan has gotten worse. These days you'll be lucky to find someone that's been here for more than 6 months: just start a 'how long you've been here' thread and be prepared for a flood of single-month visitors.

That said, the general amount of posters these days don't want a discussion, they want to show off. Get some jollies off of pissing someone off. Seriously, does anyone really find 'U mad?" funny besides the guy that posted it?

>>73890307
A lot fucking worse. The place is crawling with faggots who obsess over what's normal, bring their boring drama here etc. It used to be that people would come here to escape boring shit, or at least leave it at the doorstep.

Also, the obsession with trolling. Every thread with more than four replies has some faggot going "huehuehue he trol u."

I still believe that mods should threadb& any long non vidya thread

By that I mean, not only deleting the thread and b&ing the OP, but b&ing EVERYBODY that contritubed to the thread.

But this kind of policy is far from what seems to be the job mods get assigned to do.

>>73892607
We all do.

I can't think of any other place to go, either.

I am not really sure.
It's a good thing we finally moved away from this "lol sekrit club XD v r leegun" thing and /v/ slowed a bit down thanks to /vp/ but the overall quality of the posts decreased.
People used to post well written stories in Stalker/Dwarffortress/whatever threads, today we just get a bunch of (sometimes quite funny) greentext.
Also it's kinda sad that being a threadshitter has become some kind of accomplishment, yeah Manly Tears is pretty much gone but the next one will most likely spawn soon(we always had this problem but it got worse after Lanced Jack).

4chan has obviously gotten alot worse
What I want to know is what role /vp/ has done in that
I highly doubt that any pokemon fan that is a gamer that has been on /v/ for a long time would actually stay in /vp/

>>73892708
>Mods
Mods? Mods pin non video games threads because they're fucking /b/ trash, don't count on them, they even delete video game threads.
>But this kind of policy is far from what seems to be the job mods get assigned to do.
Meh.

is it me or /v/ really turn to shit this summer? babby, greentext being overused, lolitrolluxD, etc.

I really cant explain it but this summer never ended for me, yet here i am again cause all the other places that talk about vg are actually worse than 4chan.

>>73892708
Well, for me it really depends. For instance, I wouldn't delete this thread, despite it not being about vidya per se.

I agree that mods should be a little more harsh, but then again bans never did anything ever since the advent of proxy.

>>73892651
>Seriously, does anyone really find 'U mad?" funny besides the guy that posted it?
No, and neither does the guy that posted it. One of the worst changes to 4chan is that people now vigorously defend dumb shit they've said while anonymous instead of just forgetting the whole thing. More than they used to, anyway.

>4chan
>improve

In being a shit place filled with retards maybe.

Userbase: worse
Servers: worse

Only good thing I appreciate over the last 2 years is having a higher image/bump limit. Otherwise, shit all around

>>73893049
I have participated in quite a few nice threads. However, after the new Dante thing, suddenly every other thread turned into pure shit.

>>73892764
It's funny, I used to be annoyed at Lanced Jack, but now other tripfags imitate him and... actually keep theads vidya related sometimes.

Albeit in animu shitstyle, but eh, can't have everything.

Back in 2004/2005 all of 4chan was largely homogeneous. There were differences between the boards, but everyone on that board was the same. /v/, for instance, was mostly a PS2 board with a significant GCN minority. No threads that would not interest this group existed.

Then /b/ rolled in in summer 2006 and everything turned to shit. Basically, /b/tards were sick of newfags and came to /v/ to turn it into old /b/. It took about a year for these faggots to finally realize that the rest of 4chan is not /b/.

Ever since then it's been a constant strain because moot never actually bothered to moderate /v/ (never tried to get mods who actually browsed /v/) and as the population increased /v/ became more and more the /v/ - General Stuff board. It became really bad in the past year until moot finally got mods on /v/.

Also I want to point out that I think /v/ has worse and worse reasoning skills as time goes on, but only starting in the past year. Just something I noticed.

>>73893148
I still think people should just ignore trolls. It would fix so many threads...

depends on where you came from and where you're going.

>>73893049
>is it me or /v/ really turn to shit this summer?
It's not just you. It really took a nose dive a few months back.

I don't think it's changed much at all.
/v/ was still shitty in 2007 and 2008.
Remember misnamed reactions? They literally derailed ANY THREAD.
There were still 50+ "Post funny TF2 picture" threads, Japan time, while fun, still had people posting the same info over and over even the day after it was announced, tripfags like Walter still existed and well, 2007 /v/ was shitty and good in its own ways JUST LIKE /v/ IS SHITTY IN GOOD IN ITS OWN WAYS NOW.
The only reason you think /v/ was better back then is because of nostalgia.

The only people that like 4chan are bitter underaged nerds

>>73892764

You've only been here a year.

I don't think 4chan has changed at all. I've browsed 4chan casually for the last 4 years and it seems like the same old shit to me. "blahaha bla newfags ruin the site" "im an old fag, back in my day it was better".

>>73893350
Dost thou have more like that? Perchance

I'm not sure if you guys remember this, this was an image posted in a nostalgia thread back in 2006, talking about how 2004 was.

Bad photoshop? Yes.
Not /v/ related? Yes.
Trolling? No.

It was a thread about making this empty Sister Princess wallpaper look snazzy, so posters just hopped on their photoshop or gimp and added something random and 4chan related, then the next person would take the image and go from there. By the time the thread died, everyone just had their lulz, which was a communal lulz.

I wish the community did something more than contribute to a thread by attacking everyone. It wasn't always like this. It didn't start like this.

/tg/ is really the only decent board left.
Also is it just me or has /v/ gone downhill more then usual since last winter?

>>73891634
It's not even trolling anymore. A troll derives joy from getting you pissed off. What we have now are wannabees who skip straight to claiming everyone is really mad at them and, I don't know, expect a pat on the back or something.

>>73893645 Also is it just me or has /v/ gone downhill more then usual since last winter?
>>73893388 It's not just you. It really took a nose dive a few months back.
>>73893049 is it me or /v/ really turn to shit this summer?

This is the kind of poor reasoning skills I was talking about. Back when /b/tards started spilling out of /b/ onto other boards they could actually establish a justification for why /b/ was shit, even if most people disagreed.

It's shit because it's shit because it's shit because it's shit is not how it works.

I came here in 2006. It was different then, if you were new you shut the fuck up and didn't post until you knew what was what. Faggotry like excessive emotes and *action quotes* were flamed into the depths of 404 oblivion, being 'normal' just wasn't a common occurence. Girls were just not accepted. Period. We're talking the hay day of "no girls on the internet". Camwhore posts were banned at the speed of light, the ones that weren't were cruelly mocked. The term "femanon" certainly did not exist. Oh lawds, I laugh just at the thought of the shitstorm it would cause if someone had tried to use that term back then.

"Gb2Gaia" was probably the most used phrase on 4chan in those years. I miss those days man, its not like I begrudge folk using the site. It's a public site, but it's not the same and I miss the anti-social nerd orgy that it was.

lol, I sound like fucking Zaeed.

Was just waxin goddam nostalgic, browsed 4chan back in the day. Lots of people came along, but only I made it out alive that day.

>>73893599
I remember ;_;

>>73893584
I do but I hate the new translation.

Captcha: popmen Criticisms. Huh.

>>73893943

You sound like a /b/tard.

Whatever happened to these kinds of threads?

>>73893584
Do you?

>>73894034

I was for 3.5 years. I only came here a few months ago when I got fed up of the shit.

>>73893584

would you happen to have those in bigger formats ?

>>73893955
THAT LION.

It feel like so long ago ;_;

I'll go to the car now. For nostalgia sake.

>>73893599
Good times.

>>73894043
Everyone became an internet tough guy instead of having fun.

I wouldn't say there was more underage users than there used to be 4-5 years ago, but it's definitely becoming more apparent to me when they post.

They're just so retarded sometimes.

>>73894043
You mean skifree yeti threads, or zoom threads? I think people are just too lazy to do a zoom now. I still think it's pretty fun, when done right. It's all about greentext now.

I remember back in 2005 When I was a sophmore in highschool, I would think about 4chan all day, and as soon as the bell would ring, I'd go straight home and go to /b/. I would rage my ass off in serious discussion threads, laugh my ass off in OC threads, and their were a few select memes that really stuck and never seemed to get old. Now it's just gay porn, meaningless "laugh you lose" threads and I can't remember the last time there was a "serious discussion" thread on /b/. /r9k/ has serious discussions, but their all "WAAAH MY GF DUMPED ME I HATE WOMEN!!!"
As for /v/, it used to be 90% weaboo, and I personally thought it;s prime was in 2006.
I love 4chan, but it will never be the same as when it first came out.

>>73890993
>WAAAAAH mommy people who aren't manchildren are using MY memes they aren't cool if more than 50 people like them!

As for this thread, old /v/ only looks better if you're wearing these.

>>73894043

They stopped being funny.

Seriously, that was what qualified as a hugely funny post back in the day. Nowadays it's just "heh, nice man".

It's the same reason we don't laugh at black and white sitcoms anymore. They might have been funny in their time but they certainly aren't anymore.

>>73894343
I think he meant fun threads.

I hate this new popularity in 4chan
I literally can't walk down the street to the theatre without hearing a group of hipsters shouting memes

>>73894390

4chan was pretty shit back then as well. You were just younger and it didn't seem that way. lolcats were all the rage, as well as desudesudesu

>>73894390
I'm disappointed that so many people complain about weeaboos these days. Most people don't even know where the word came from anymore either.

>>73894043
We almost had one of those earlier today. Started out with Harry Mason asking for his daughter, then James came in. Then it got flooded with people saying that hey fucked her.

I'm starting to think the speed at which a board moves is more or less inversely correlated with the quality of its posts. There was a sweet spot, a good compromise between activity and quality, and we've moved past it.

I'm guessing that, the more people have a sense of urgency when they post, the more they tend to fall back on the same old shit. E.g. stale memes, dumb highschool shit everyone can relate to, recycled topics, ps3 h­as n­o gam­es, etc. etc.

Another speed related problem is that threads about obscure games get overlooked because they're swept off the front page immediately. This leaves people discussing the same five games over and over again, which gets people bored and start shitposting because there's no offtopic board aside from /b/ and /r9k/, where no one in their right minds go.

>>73894343
Miss zoom usage.

Personally, I think /b/ isn't as bad as before. They're ok these days. I've seen some good in /b/ from time to time. Like when some dude has no money to pay his next rent and shit, some ppl actually donated to him to help him out.

/v/ can also be ok sometimes. Like when that guy sent flowers to that company of heroes developer who died, that was cool. Tho most of the time it's just kids having console wars.

/a/ is ok most of the time. Keeps me updated on the newest anime and shit.

Overall, 4chan isn't as bad as what the news makes it out to be. But there are some improvements it could have. Like whenever you make a thread, the thread disappears to page 12 as soon as it's made, so it gets hard finding the thread you made.

>>73894745
I agree with this. Board quality correlates with board activity. You can only get so much activity until the board becomes shit. I thought the captcha would help this, but it hasn't.

>>73894625
I know, but I still think it was better than it's current state.
>>73894642
I wasn't complaining about weaboos, but for the first year I found 4chan /v/ didn't really appeal to me. I started coming to /v/ frequently around 06'.

It's been muddled up to such an extent it is too hard to define.

There's people who don't give a shit.
There's people who think everyone rages about it.
There's people who don't know there are people who rage about it.
There's people who troll for fun.
There's people who think there are trolls when there aren't.
There's people who are 12 who don't what anything is.
There's attention whores whom which no level is too degrading to stoop to for attention (i saw a post once just replying to a reaction image where someone simply commented about them making that reaction image)

It's basically really confused and choosing which side you're on nowadays is as pointless as drawing with a broken pencil.

Imagine a ball. This ball is the internet when it was young and when memes weren't even called memes, they were just funny pictures you could find on the internet. You love playing with balls, right? you just can't get enough of tossing that ball up and down.

Now imagine this ball being covered in spikes. Each spike represents a particular annoyance, the spike will always make you bleed when you touch the ball.
One spike is troll threads, another is tripfags(remember lanced jack? I don't.) another is meme threads for people who are already sick of memes.

Eventually your hands will develop calluses which make your hands resistant to the pain of the spikes, and the spikes themselves become corroded from the blood and the blades become dull and blunt.

There is no more pain from the internet.
Unless you actively go squeezing the ball so hard you actually pincer yourself on broken old spikes for some fucking reason you degenerate cunt.

Nowadays people don't care anymore except for those who are late to the party.

>>73894745
I agree. It seems that the average post is worried about speed now instead of a concise thought. I used to take my time posting back then (5 year lurker here) but now I try to "beat everyone to the punch" by posting something first. I hate it, but that's what we've become.

>>73890307
/b/ has taken over everything and you can't take two steps without having a random encounter with some bumblefuck latched onto the latest annoying catchphrase that's circulating.
If moot just--I don't know--fucking killed /b/ and put the site down for a month, we wouldn't be where we are now.

>>73894844
Newfag

>>73895095
This site wouldn't nearly be the same. /b/ is horrible, but I feel that it's a sort of necessary evil.

>>73895095
Trust me, if moot killed /b/, things would be worse, much worse.

>my face when mfw started happening

Gentlemen, I believe we are missing the main point of the argument, that the PS3 has no games.

None at all. Shocking, really.

We don't need to kill /b/, we just need to institute a ban on anyone who posts on /b/ from posting on the rest of the 4chan. Maybe we can allow them to post on /r9k/ as well as /b/.

This has been obvious for years.

>>73895323
>mfw

would probably die if the mods on /sp/ would lift the ban on
>my face when

>>73895095
Think of a dump. It smells horrible, it leaks, but at least you can throw the trash there when you need it, right?

/b/ is like a dump.

But if there was no dump, then the shit would be all over the ground.

/v/ stopped being good in 2007
/b/ stopped being good in 2005.

>>73895420

Perfect.

>>73895236
Don't mess with football.

We had the ability to change the world, 4chan. We used to make it a better place.

From a technical standpoint yes.
The boards are much much much faster than they were and downtime is largely a thing of the past.
If you're talking about post quality sure it's gotten worse. No more sekrit club etc. Also no more lurking.

Its nice we had proper moderation today, but we need it ALL THE TIME.

/vp/ has mods, /h/ has mods, /d/ HAS MODS.

Hell, ban buzzwords like hipster, viral, weeaboo, and such. Wordfilter even. The quality on /v/ raises IMMENSELY .

You can't talk about a Japanese game on /v/ without being called a weeaboo

Can't talk about a new/unrelease game without some retard screaming viral

Can't talk about a game thats remotely obscure without being called hipster.

>>73895420

The main problem is that /b/ used to be good. As it got worse, everything else got worse. It's sad to say, but we fucking depend on /b/ getting fixed if 4chan's ever going to improve. We're going to need mods banning people there 24/7 for posting anything unoriginal or unfunny. The remaining cancer will fuck up other boards for a little but with diligence it'll get wiped out. /b/ will never be what it was but it can be fucking funny again. Then /v/ and /x/ and all those other boards suffocating under 0/10 trolling are going to be fun places to go again.

I know moot isn't reading this site anymore but if he is we need to let him know that /b/ can still be saved. We need a psychopathic moderator. A man above the law and above morality who doesn't ban because he disagrees but because it's what he has to do - and he damn well enjoys it. We need our own little Dexter.

>>73895819
>wordfilter weeaboo
But weeaboo was a wordfilter for wapanese.

>>73895819
I would like to see weeaboo wordfiltered. It'd be ironic that a word that was originally a wordfilter, becomes wordfiltered itself.

I just think splitting /v/ into japanese games and western games would fix everything, at least in the japanese side.
Weeaboo weeaboo, etc.

>>73895819
>/d/ HAS MODS
Futa spam and anti-futa trolling would like to disagree with you
>>73895894
>/b/ good
Since when?

>>73895819
>/vp/ has mods

>>73895900
Its to the point where not many people know that.

>>73895819

/d/ doesn't have mods.

/d/ doesn't need mods. People don't reply to trolls there. When someone requests something then no one replies. If someone makes an off topic thread no one replies. If someone makes a really odd question from left field but is related to /d/ then it will get, minimum, five to ten replies.

Really, moot should try banning the people that reply to trolls for a few weeks. See what happens. I'm talking really obvious trolls, people who could not be anything other than trolls ie nogames, etc.

>>73895991
Make a Digimon thread there and see how long it lasts.

>>73895935
This would work. I think futaba does something similar. I know 2ch does it, but they have like a hundred boards anyway.

I used to hang around /b/ and now I can't. It's a cesspool. Not even a GOOD cesspool. I miss oldschool EFG and the like, before newfags started trolling his threads because hell, I don't know, I guess they just like cock.

Now I have to hang out on /v/ because it's still remotely awesome.

>>73896107
Futaba has a lot of boards, but they have the decency to ignore trolls in even their /b/ boards.

>>73890993

Anonymous is the World's Greatests Trolls

>>73895806
>Also no more lurking.
This.
Now faggots think they know all about "chan culture xD" because they spend time on fucking knowyourmeme, and that gives them the go-ahead to post.
Call me a sekrit clubhouse fag all you want, I miss the days where there was actual posting etiquette and you couldn't shitpost without being called on it. /v/ is so tolerant of smilies and abbreviations it makes me sick.
At least /a/ still retains this elitism to some extent.

>>73895935

Eh, I really think the japanese /v/ would eventually turn into a quasi-/a/. /v/ will never get better, people don't like people that like what they don't like.

>>73894844
>I've seen some good in /b/ from time to time. Like when some dude has no money to pay his next rent and shit, some ppl actually donated to him to help him out.
Nice maybe, but incredibly trite.
/b/ is not some stupid groputhink thought-experiment moot's perpetually holding. It's cheap and stupid entertainment; a source of which is in a constant state of decay.
In fact, stupid facebook drama is a better part of *why* /b/, /r9k/ and probably /adv/ are how they are now.
4chan should not be your fucking crying shoulder. I'm not saying it should be 100% LOLNIGGERS all the time, but stop dragging your personal life into a site about anime and cats.

The cancer has always been reposts, memes, and spam. No matter what time you thought 4chan was the best, OC, and original posts are the only thing that makes this place worth coming to.

Sure rickroll was funny the first 6 times, but when you post it over and over again for 3 years, you start getting tumors.

The cancer is accentuated by newfags who think memes don't have and experation date of 2 hours, and that they're real cool clubhouse members for mentioning it.

When something new does come along, it's spammed to death and gets old after about 30 minutes, but at least it's something new.

You just gotta ride the waves and hope you don't drown.

>>73896082

They do last. Usually it's just people playing along and posting other Digimon. I was referring to the porn/Gary war (which has mostly subsided with the release of B/W but once that cools down I suspect that will come back).

>mention something japanese on any board
>SAGE SAGE WEEABOO GO BACK TO GAIA ANIME IS FOR FAGGOTS
to many kids who hate anything other people like to seem cool, and dont seem to realize what website they frequent

It's impossible to say if it's better or worse. There are more users, leading to more content and posts.. however alot of the new users are children and herp derps that saw one picture from 4chan and posted it all over their facebook.

I still enjoy 4chan after several years, /v/ being the main place I post and enjoy.

>>73896258
A lot has to do with how mainstream 4cham memes have become so people show up and just start posting since they figure they know it all.
According to Shii, lurking died in 2005

>>73896404
Sorta like 4AM, Doubles, Rev up those...

All of which /v/ raided the other boards with.

Its sad that Doubles goes from a /b/ thing to a /v/ thing and then /v/ has these fucking XXXs because kids think its funny.

You know, lets all email Moot.

>>73895935
Then we would have two shit infested video game boards as oppose to one. The only hope for this place are mods, which won't be happening anytime soon.

>>73894807
fairly recent

>>73896258
>/v/ is so tolerant of smilies and abbreviations it makes me sick.
Part of the reason I gave up on /tg/. I know being on /v/ I'm in no place to talk, but they let people walk all over them all the time and don't bat an eye.

EVENTUALLY THE CHILDREN ON THIS SITE WILL GROW UP AND WANT TO PROTECT THE JOKES THEY KNEW OF WHEN THEY FIRST GOT HERE, WHEN THEY THOUGHT THIS SITE WAS ACTUALLY FUNNY OR SOME SHIT.

NEWER CHILDREN WILL COME HERE BUT ALL OF THEM WILL GROW UP TO HATE THEIR YOUNGER SELVES, SOME WILL LAUGH AND SAY "LOL I USED TO BE ON 4CHAN, MAN I WAS SUCH A KID". AND THEN IT WILL PASS, YOU WON'T BE A 50 YEAR OLD MAN AND SEE SOME FAGGOT GOING SHOOP-DA-WOOP

>>73896276
We could always try

>>73896579
I still don't get it, what the fuck are those XXX?

>>73896463

A board with a tiny minority of Japanese oriented boards and a creator whose creation is no longer weeaboo and has clearly grown past some little pet project? Huh.

>>73896635
I don't think half the people here who know how shitty 4chan has got like memes.

>>73896735
It was to "stop the doubles posts"

Yeah Moot, that worked, it work a lot.

>>73896463
>Call someone wapanese or weeaboo for wanking over some moeblob bullshit
>WEEABOO YOU'RE ON 4CHAN FAG DEAL W/ IT XD
Fixed that for you.
Seriously, do you people filter in from animesuki or some shit? I'm genuinely curious.

>>73896740
>moot
>not weeaboo
Do you realize how often the mods fuck with /a/?

>>73896660

True, there's no harm in trying, but I feel as though it will hurt the actual legitimate discussion threads more than the cancer.

I say we give it a shot though, and work our way from there

>>73896827
>>73896827
>>73896827
Actually, it made it worse.

Now, instead of straight ignoring someone's doubles, you almost HAVE to click, since you have no idea if there are doubles or not.

Thanks moot, you really helped us out..~

>>73896740
ha ha ha, oh wow., you really have no idea what you are talking about do you?

>>73896832

You do realize that that's irrelevant to anything I said in my post, right?

Simple answer OP.

>>73896931
The fact that you actually care and don't just report/hide the thread makes you the cancer.
Faggot.

>>73896931
At least they aren't hijacking vidya threads anymore.

Say, does anyone have the cap of when Moot put up the WE HAVE A /vp/ STICKY, when there's a Linetrap thread right under it?

>>73896463
I fucking hate that picture so much. I can't find my pic of some faggot going on about how 4chan is supposed to be all weeaboo in /g/ with a great big red (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) slapped across his post. And 4 posts bellow him is someone posting that god damned pic that got just as banned as anon #1.
Fuckity fuck fuck fuck fuck you. Keep your shit in your own boards.
>split /v/ in two
lol no

And everything went better than expected.

>>73896866
I wish I would end up like /jp/, but less elitist pedophiles and more general instead of Touhou, normalfags free.

>>73896931

You are an idiot.

No, stop. You are an idiot. You either have been here a week, or you are a very dumb person who didn't actually pay attention to /v/ during the couple of months before XXXs was instituted.

>>73896635
>AND THEN IT WILL PASS, YOU WON'T BE A 50 YEAR OLD MAN AND SEE SOME FAGGOT GOING SHOOP-DA-WOOP
I was just in Jersey. I stopped by a hobby store with my brother and hung out while he played BC2. The whole time, there was a quartet of junior high kids playing Killing Floor yelling "DO A BARREL ROLL GUYS, IMMA CHARGIN MAH LAZAH."
Common sense and cowardice were the only things keeping me from backhanding someone.

>>73896829
but its a legitimate argument, you are on 4chan, if you dont like it, leave :3

>>73896827
>>73896931

>>73896931
Get the userscript that makes post numbers show up.

>>73897067
it would end up

>>73897037
you're assuming im the one doing it

people inside doubles threads have admitted that repeatedly, i'm just parroting their remarks.

>>73897051
anime > vidya, u mad.

Here's an idea:

Did you just make a post in a thread? You are now unable to make posts in other threads for five minutes.

This will limit the whole "I must race to finish this post as quickly as possible!" effect. You're able to continue posting in your thread all you want, but you can't post elsewhere. If you want to be heard your post better matter.

>>73897248
But you just admitted you partake in doubles threads.

>>73896276
>>73896107
>>73895935

Jesus Christ, this way of thinking is the fucking problem. As soon as someone's feathers get ruffled, they start screaming to have the fucking boards split. What the fuck, guys? You can't reconcile the fact that someone hates something you identify as good, so you sever the board? Ignore people who call everything weeaboo, ignore the fucking wrpg/jrpg threads, get on with your goddamn browsing. I want to talk to everyone and anyone about every type of game, that's why I like coming here. It's why I hate that there's a /vp/ board.

What's sad is that /v/ is good, every now and then, for a short period. Even certain threads can be good at any time of day. But they seem to go through a transition where they're shit on in succession, because people think trolling everything is necessary. There are also dumbfucks who don't understand what all trolling encompasses. They just fucking post nonstop constantly to everything. It makes the whole board shit, fast.

In the end, the golden goddamn rule should be taken into account no matter what you're posting. Captcha has filtered out quite a bit, and so has the hidden post numbers; but what we're looking at here has to be a conscious decision. You fags need to lurk the fuck more. Goddamn, the trigger reaction of the fags here makes this place just as bad as /b/.

tl;dr: LURK. FUCKING LURK. STOP POSTING IN EVERY THREAD.

There used to be a time when people were hassled for saying something stupid. Now we just greentext and reaction image everything, making it seem okay to be a fucking moron.

>>73897316
Castrate yourself.

Is this a trick question?

>>73897378

You first.

Old 4chan was best 4chan.

The site gets shittier every day. Mostly during the afternoon when the kids are out of school.

>>73897141
Where do you get all those userscripts, anyway?

>>73897316
I'd much rather we just split /v/ in two to slow things down.

>>73897359

Truth, if we split like that then eventually we'll end up with /xbox/ /ps/ /nin/ and /pc/. Some games still have consistently good threads (out of the ones I lurk, Dwarf Fortress being the most civil). Surprisingly we had a good Banjo-Kazooie thread a few days back; was expecting to see a shitload of "herp nostalgia goggles xD" and other nonsense. /v/ still has hope.

>>73897599
The sad thing is, the majority of /v/ has no idea what half of this shit is, and will simply say XDDD HIPSTER

Fuck, /v/ was bad this year, but it got EONS worse when Scott Pilgrim came out because the kids learned a new word to parrot like they have tourettes.

Its really improved since we can add music to our posts.

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
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>>73897695

Splitting causes userbase problems. It also starves both sides of much needed attention.

If you are some guy who never plays one type of game, your taste would probably improve if it popped up in your face once in a while. Actually thinking that strategy games involve spreadsheets and then seeing a thread of everyone having fun with a game you never gave a chance improves you.

>>73890715
>Back in the day people actually had threads about games.
When? /v/ has rarely been about games. The only vaguely Video Game centered things about /v/ were Japan Time (which was a good two years ago) and Sony vs MS vs Nintendo trolling during e3/tgs. Everything else is and has been trolling.

The only thing I miss is when penis and vagina were colored

>>73897887
Only got this other one.

Nobody never bothered or stayed long enough here to finish them I think.

>>73897316

That´s really good idea. I second it

>>73898510
Much appreciation, never even knew these existed til now.

The littler chans are much like 4chan used to be in the old days. Alot slower, but I find the post quality worth the wait.

>>73899463
Same happens with some boards like /3/ or /po/ I think.

"Oldfags" not realizing that cells that won't die are rejected by the body and turned into cancer cells, much like the "Oldfags" of 4chan
Mind making room for OC instead of dwelling on the past with shit posts?
videogames

Fuck all this trap shit. I'd rather go back to pre warning era when every thread on the frontpage was TF2 and consolewar shit over this openly gay /v/ And if you guys love sucking cocks, then fucking keep it to yourselves GODDAMNIT. Stop this gaymer thread bullshit etc

>>73900158

A typical example of idiotic newer user using the terms 'oldfag/newfag' whilst bitching about 'cancer' and 'OC'.
You might want to consider how many of those /b/ buzzwords are 'original'.

/b/ is still shit. I wish /b/ would go away. People who still visit /b/ should learn that the 4chan experience improves drastically once you stop visiting that board.

>>73900158
More like memes that wont die because new­fags wont let them.

>>73891802
Uh, what the fuck would you do now? Put spongebob in your avatar?

>>73901170
THIS

>>73890993