I think banning the generals to reddit or their own board would

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You'd be correct

As an oldfag, I can definitely say that generals are one of the worst things to have happened to 4chan.

They're mostly used as a way to advertise products and keep them on the front page, rather than to seriously discuss anything.

And what tends to happen in generals is people run out of things to talk about, because they have the same thread every day, so they resort to shitposting to keep things going. The general is more of a rotted and decaying zombie kept alive with shitposts, acting as a public billboard and advertisement for products, than anything remotely approaching a genuine discussion.

Before we had generals, people would make threads about things, and if nobody liked the thread, it wouldn't even be replied to. The thread would die on its own. This created a darwinian system where threads either get clickbaity enough, or genuinely interesting enough to be replied to. It meant there was a constant churn of original content - something 4chan hardly even talks about these days.

Ostensibly, we got generals to prevent the boards from being spammed with a single topic all the time, but the crux of the issue there isn't the need for generals, but the need to get rid of spammers and advertisers hijacking the discussion medium to hawk their shitty products.

>>61413383
>I think banning the generals to reddit or their own board would be a start in right direction.
Ban /wg/ - watch general no matter what. It has nothing to do with technology and is a fashion thread. Get rid of that shit first.

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>>61413383
we just need more anime

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I applied for janitor (inb4 does it for free cuck) a while ago and my answer to the "greatest threat to your board?" question was the generals and the lack of OC in them.

I didn't get the role.

>>61413524
this desu

im not an animefag but 4chan has anime origins and it pisses off normies and shills so hard for some reason when anime is posted.

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>>61413524
i'm inclined to agree desu. would make the shitposting a little more bearable.

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>>61413383
ban private tracker general
it's just redddit circlejerking thread

>>61413383
We NEED to ban /pol/. It's bullshit, they constantly break the rules and shitpost, but nothing ever comes of it.
Mods NEED to enforce the no /pol/ outside of /pol/ rule. NOW.

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>>61413926
Why are you so angry (((Anon)))?

Don't you know that /pol/ is always right?

>>61413926
the pol posts don't bother me as much because they are usually one or two posts in a big thread. Its the reaction they get which makes them so bad, if people didnt give the /pol/ posts so many (You)'s then they would stop doing it.

>>61413862
Agreed /ptg/ as with most generals used to be good but now its the same shitty posts in every single fucking thread with no new information or content.

>>61413383
>generals
>their own board would be a start in right direction.
>>/gg/ ?

Stickying them would probably work better. Some of them are worthwhile since they get posted about ALL THE FUCKING TIME but it's annoying to see them keep shuffling around the pages.

I could do with seeing guts and battlestation being exiled, though. Take them to /p/.

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>>61413524
This 100%.

It makes the normies go away and is pleasant to the eyes.

>>61413474
bruh

>>61413862
This
It's not even about technology, it would be a better fit in /t/.

>>61413383
Absolutely. Right now there are _18 generals_ on /g/. A few years ago there was the /dpt/ and that was about it (and the /dpt/ was actually somewhat interesting aside from all of the skiddies asking for help with their homework).

How many days in a row can you seriously discuss smartphones?

>>61413926
Bring back /mlpol/, literally a reddit free and shill free experience. Actually, get rid of gr15 entirely and reddit will fuck off.

>>61413383
A few generals isn't so bad as it contains some cancer.
But we have like 20 generals now.
The cancer spread over the entire board.

>>61414318
A few years ago we had stallman, tech jokes and tech stories generals, all of them were awesome ;_;

>>61414318
/dpt/, /sqt/, and /fglt/ is all you need.

>>61414188
Don't kid yourself. /ptg/ was never good.

The only meaningful (if cancerous) general is the stupid questions thread because there is always such a fucking influx of fucking idiots that don't understand that /g/ is not a tech support board and that they should be going to /wsr/ (worksafe requests), where they actually DO allow tech support.

>>61413474
We should only use generals during product launches imo since this board becomes such a huge mess of fanboys

>>61414359
When I say good I am referring to /ptg/ when people would use it for invites and not spamming "marked XDDD"

>>61413383
- Ban All generals except for maybe /sqt/ and /pcbg/
-Ban all politics outside of /pol/

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>>61413524
>>61413588
>>61413862
>>61414260
kys, you lil kids

>>61414359
/ptg/ has the most cancerous OP images and they think they're funny.

>>61414359
>The only meaningful (if cancerous) general is the stupid questions thread
The sqt is one of the most useless generals that even existed. You would never get any proper answer if it you weren't asking about something truly stupid that you are able to find with a search engine as the first result.
The only useful generals are the /dpt/ and the friendly gnu/linux thread.

>>61414349
WE NEED /PROG/ BACK FFS
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>61414359
I would agree the "stupid questions" and "PC building" generals are fine.
They serve a purpose

>>61414404
>- Ban All generals except for maybe /sqt/ and /pcbg/
Both cancer, kys.

>>61414407
Fuck off racist frog.

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>>61414407
go away 9gag
stupid frogposter

het rid of all but /sqt/ and move any threads that belong thejr into it

>>61414418
https://dis.tinychan.org/prog/
https://goatfinger.ga/prog/

>>61414420
We could do without PC building. It's blatant tech support and could be reduced to 1) look at the links in the sticky for parts recommendations and 2) go watch YouTube tutorials to learn LEGO for grown-ups.

>>61414407
Dumb normalfag frog poster

Just split it in two boards like every other board in history that has become to large to hold the cancer

/g/ techonology for consumer shit and /cyb/ for muh alternative OSes and free software.

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Strawpoll

http://www.strawpoll.me/13454513
http://www.strawpoll.me/13454513
http://www.strawpoll.me/13454513

I will email this thread and the results of the strawpoll to Hiro and hopefully it will do some good.

>>61413524
What's that from?

>>61414429
Akai Mato a best <3
https://exhentai.org/g/668907/98dd13b744/

>>61413383
>banning the generals to reddit
/fglt/ serves their intended purpose and does it quite well. #notallgenerals

>>61414466
This won't do anything

>>61413474
I've been here for 10 years and generals are probably one of the better things we've started to have. /dpt/ in particular is one of the best-quality threads on the board at any given time.

>>61414466
>nonfree js
>posting it multiple times
>all the solutions suck
Kys

>>61414429
Holy shit look at this newfag

>>61414142
>reddit spacing
keep it classy /pol/

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I use this filter to mage /g/ great again, with 4chan-x ofc

You have an option to only see the filtered content aside from the unfiltered content while in the catalog in case you do ever feel like going into one of them..

/(?:thinkpad|smart\w?phone|nyaa|watch thread|chink shit|Battlestation|Headphone|mechanical keyboard|PC Building|private tracker|/ptg/|Portable Media Players)(?:general|thread)?/i;boards:g;op:only

>>61414475
This, I suggest to keep all programming and free-software related generals.

>>61414496
>newfag thinks frogposting is acceptable anywhere except reddit and r9k

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>>61414481
It wont with that attitude

>>61414494
I posted it more than once because I want people to vote
If you have a better solution I am all ears.

>>61414533
>cancerous smartphone bullshit
>probably filled with non-free bullshit
>twitter meme
Why haven't you KYSed yet?

>>61414551
Its a pic from my meme folder but my icons are fucked so I didnt know what i was posting

I have never used 4chan or twitter on my phone.

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>>61414496
Fun fact: The term "newfag" is mainly used by newfags.

>>61414533
Hiro doesn't care, people have tried before to see changes in this website and nothing will come as a result.

>>61414424
>Both cancer, kys.
Care to explain how to deal with the flood of "/g/ build me a PC plz" & "i'm borderline mentally retarded" threads?
We already know more moderation won't happen, and that the existing mods often forget that they even mods themselves.
AT BEST all we can hope for is 4chan to be removed from google searches, and An Hiro won't bloody do that. If one of us does it on his behalf there will be 200 threads from dumbshit newshits jumping up and down about it no being there anymore, blowing any work done.

>>61414619
>Help me build a PC threads
Send them to /v/. Faggot gamers don't belong on this board.

>>61414619
>Care to explain how to deal with the flood of "/g/ build me a PC plz" & "i'm borderline mentally retarded" threads?
Send them back to /v/.

>>61414636
>Send them to /v/.
I wouldn't wish a 7700K and a 970 on my worst enemy mate.

>>61414636
If I was a mod I would just permaban gaymers from /g/. Thankfully, /pol/ is doing gods work by posting politics on /v/ and it angers the liberals of /v/eddit greatly.

>>61414486
dpt is a bad example of a general. dpt is focused on discussion and sharing your individual projects. by nature it is not really a general--in fact, its name is daily programming THREAD, rather than general. most generals focus on circlejerking over one specific thing.

I have an idea: generals stay alive in the archive after they reach the end of the board and become text only threads. the point of a general is knowledge sharing and all images can be taken care of before bump limit.

>>61414659
In seriousness though there are more than enough DIY guides and references out there already. There's no need for (quasi-) realtime discussion about it. Follow a guide, pick parts and aim for your budget.

>>61414675
Post in ghost mode in the real archive.

>>61414486
Their quality varies greatly, dpt was the first ever /g/ general, although back then the phrase 'general' wasn't used. Nowadays seemingly every possible topic gets its own general on the board, it's fragmented the userbase a lot, it seems like back in the old days everyone was hopping in and out of threads all the time, nowadays people just stick to their generals.

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>>61414673
>liberals of /v/

>>61414759
You've never been to /v/, they complain about /pol/ all the time. It's called /v/eddit for a reason.

>>61414404
>-Ban all politics outside of /pol/
This is stupid, politics are everywhere.
When people start deviating the thread and aiming into politics, then the ban hammer should be released.
Just try to be a grown man, and don't be triggered by /pol/tards

>Retards want to ban generals, anime and technology discussion
Guess if the only threads would be AMD vs INTEL exclusively you guys would be happy

>>61414673
>t angers the liberals of /v/eddit greatly.
/v/ and /pol/ are literally the same shit

>>>/q/
But this has been tried to be enforced so many times.
/int/ is the last example I remember. Didn't work. Look at how they are now.

What should be is a collected general board. Like /vg/ but any topic. Some enjoy the chat-like format they provide.

>>61414799
>I didn't go to /g/ before generals was a trend
OK. Thanks for blogging.

Are there any other boards with as many /g/enerals as /g/?

>>61414838
Diy?

>>61414838
/vg/

>>61414838
/mlp/ has more, with less talk/threads of homosex and traps than every other place.

>>61414848
T-that doesn't count!

>>61414859
I find that difficult to believe and I'm not willing to personally find out if true or not.

HOLY SHIT

have you noticed the CENSORING that goes on on /g/ lately?

mods dont just delete blacked threads
THEY FUCKING DELETE ""OFFENSIVE"" POSTS IN ANY THREAD

FUCK YOU this isnt your SAFE SPACE THIS IS 4CHAN DAMMIT

>>61414888
You have to be 18 to post here

>>61413524
this is exactly what we need less of
it just leads to random completely off topic discussions and a lot of nsfw images/gifs just like that one

>>61414886
No, seriously. It's like one thread. /HHH/ Homo horsie hangout. Why would they want dick when they've got glorious horse pussy to look at?

>>61414888
>I don't know the rules.
Leave if you don't agree with them

>>61414897
You have to have a brain to make an argument here.

Don't slide the point of the post faggot.
>be mod
choke on a dick

>>61414916
You guys are degenerates, but you're the degenerates that can scare reddit away so you have a use.

>>61414414
>The sqt is one of the most useless generals that even existed. You would never get any proper answer...
THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT. The general is there for your answers to rot away. If you want help for your request go to the right board, you fucking retard. Your kind is why /sgt/ has to continue existing.

>>61414981
>If you want help for your request go to the right board
>questions = requests
>tech related questions do not belong on /g/
wut

>>61414990
Global Rule #3, newfag.
Not that any boards follow it

>>61414990
>Censoring nigger
I've only been banned once using that word, and that was by calling anon a massive fucking nigger.

>>61415001
i know the rule fagget
how does it apply to poojokes

>>61413474
/dpt/, /fglg/, and /wdg/ are the ones I look at and they are good and don't shill. The stupid question one contains what could be dozens of useless threads.

there are definitely shill generals though

>>61415096
>there are definitely shill generals though
Lmao. You should take a look at /spg/ and /hpg/

>>61415071
I didn't say it does? Have you been banned for it?

>>61415124
i haven't i noticed a bunch of posts were deleted for no fucking reason
so you're either payed by a cpu maker or you are a poo yourself

>>61415124
and learn to read curry nigger
i wrote CENSORING

Banning tripfags and circlejerks would be a good start desu. There's something about the name/tripfags on /g/ that just causes them to pool a bunch of losers together into quasi-orbiters and ruin otherwise decent generals.

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>>61414429

SUCK DICK MUCH FAGGIT?

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>>61415189
In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of some fake god's blessings, but because holy shit you are a faggot LOLOLOLOLOL.

>>61413926
are you some kind of stupid newfag? Banning things from 4chan never worked

>>61415578

It worked in dealing with the furry problem

>>61414673
/V/ AND /POL/ NEED TO FUCK OFF
>/V/ AND /POL/ NEED TO FUCK OFF
/V/ AND /POL/ NEED TO FUCK OFF
>/V/ AND /POL/ NEED TO FUCK OFF
/V/ AND /POL/ NEED TO FUCK OFF
>/V/ AND /POL/ NEED TO FUCK OFF

>>61415851
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ToEvz-7trY

>>61415885
This whole board, jeesus.

>>61414293
It's hilarious, because the thread gets deleted from /t/ because of how fucking obnoxious it is.

Most generals on this board fucking suck. Watches belong on /fa/. Torrents belong on /t/. Desktop threads belong on /wg/. /mpv/ is just low quality swill that doesn't belong anywhere.

That just scratches the surface. I don't give a shit if /g/ starts to go as slow as it used to. It's what we need for this board to become sane again.

I disagree, all generals should be stickied!

People making the same thread over and over was a thing long before there were "generals". At least they're encouraged to keep everything in the same place now.

>>61413474
these days anything that isn't a general just get swarmed by /pol/fags. Generalfags can usually coordinate enough to drive the /pol/fags out, but normal threads just get derailed by faggots posting unrelated /pol/ images

>>61413383
No that's a horrible idea, some of the generals are actually good on here. If we moved the generals to another board, all we'd have left is the same stupid fucking browser or os war all the time.

>>61413474
Are you retarded? Back in 2010 we had a shitload of generals, just without that name. Battlestation threads, guts threads, thinkpad threads, desktop threads, the threads where people posted a package and showed the chink shit or dragon dildos they bought. These are all /g/ classics. Most of these have been banished to other boards because of all the newfags that didn't like the anime dense content but that's all of what /g/ was.
If you're going to claim to be an "oldfag" from before 2010, 4chan isn't as popular as it is now. You just can't compare the community from before then to now, it's just not coming back.

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>>61414407
Anime is love, anime is life

>>61413383
Generals aside from board projects need to die.

>>61416049
I miss all those threads.

They were cancer at the time, but god, whatever we have now is... terminal.

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>>61413383
Don't do it.
There are not enough generals here to justify it like they did for /v/.
look at /v/ now for that matter. The only reason to go on /v/ now is if you like cancer, /vg/ is 1000x better in every possible way.

>>61414902
4chan is an anime website dumb redditor

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>>61414260

>>61414390

This might be a good idea. It's annoying to look at the catalog and 50% of the threads are shill threads.

>>61414442
> https://dis.tinychan.org/prog/
Thanks.

>>61413383
>>61413474
Upboating with my 4chan palladium

>>61414848
Actually keked

the only real way to save /g/ is to bring back desktop threads

ITT: Weebs complain about generals just a few hours after the latest /g/-chan daisuki~ thread

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>>61413383
The main issue is we've had a large influx of people that came to imageboards for what they provide, rather than what they are. Same observation can be made with IRC chans, BBS or newsgroups actually.

Imageboards are places for people to meet, discuss, exchange knowledge, and mix together. But it's been a few years already since we've seen some board wars, like people think they "belong" to some boards or something. And imageboard/community wars are just equally ridiculous, like people have browsers that cannot lead them elsewhere, like people just stick to a single one... oh wait, they actually do. Now generals go a step further and reduce friction within a community, a friction that is very necessary. People just camp their generals, they don't interact with the rest of the community on other boards, let alone other thread in the same board, identities are born in an anonymous space, and it gives a false sense of "belonging" to something which just has no reason to exist. If we spread ourselves in little gated echo chambers, we may as well go to a website that revolves around that. Like yes, Reddit. And if we need identities and personalities, we may as well post on Facebook.

If I go to imageboards, I expect friction. The different boards just split different interests, and people are encouraged to frequent them all once in a while, and different imageboards have simply rules, cultures and languages. Generals must go, and all the faggots waging stupid "wars" have to follow. I want the internet to be back the way it was in 1995, and anyone that doesn't like that is free to go to the "modern" and "tolerant" (((social networks))).

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>>61413474
>As an oldfag
After reading all that, I can say you're not one.

>>61413474
#notallgenerals

>>61414194
they did it with /v/

people actually often talk about videogames every now and then sometimes

>>61415679
This desu, only boards with furrys are [s4s] /bant/ and /d/

>>61417347
Forgot, also /trash/

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>>61414260
Fuck off

Anime is the normiest thing right now

>>61413474
The alternative is to potentially have several threads all dedicated to that topic.
Generals are created by users and aren't permanent

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>>61414429
have you ever actually been to 9gag? or did you heard about it on reddit perhaps?
anyways 9gag is an outdated insult since it's not relevant anymore.

>>61413383
>hiro approved meta thread
what the fuck? I thought this was only a /v/ thing, fuck off my /g/ faggot and take your reddit memes with you.

>>61417688
This. Even retarded people who measure the performances of a PC with its RAM amount watch gook cartoons.

>>61413474
You clearly don't visit any boards beyond the pleb set. Broaden your horizons.

On /o/ the generals actually make sense. There's ones for motorcyclists, Honda owners, Toyota owners, Miata owners, Australians, long-haul truckers, and people who play car video games, all with their own distinct content and userbase.

t. olderfag

watch general -> fa
private tracker general -> t
anime -> a
>>61417003
wasnt it about proto-generals back in the 80s-90s

>>61417923
it basically was very similar to now, it was just a bigger pain in the ass to get anywhere.
That faggot doesn't know anything and is just getting off on being contrarian. Those who complain about "generals" usually only frequent the wildly popular boards where the mass amount of users is guaranteed to trash a general discussion thread. On slower or more focused boards the generals save a lot of space on the page and prevent otherwise good topics from being shoved off, like what used to happen on /o/ during Aussie hours.

>>61414888
this is /g/ not /b/

>>61415960
Those people will manage to ban generals from 4chan with all their whining eventually, and two things will happen:
>all boards get /_g/ versions, which kill the original board as there's no longer any reason to use them if you want to talk about something in particular instead of just shitpost
>all threads from non-general boards are banned because everything can be considered a general in some way
The hate comes from mostly the fear of turning into something as horrible as /vg/, but that same fear is what's going to destroy 4chan for good one day.
Generals exist because people find them practical, and their level of cancer should be treated on a per-thread case, just like literally any thread ever. If any general in particular gets way too many retarded posts too often, then only that thread needs to be gassed, not all generals in general.
さげる

>>61417003
Exactly. Because before generals existed, nobody ever only checked a board in particular looking for only the subject they were interested in at the same, nope, they sat down and spammed F5 on the top of the first page to shitpost in every thread that showed up there. They also visited all boards to shitpost instead of their favorite ones, obviously.

Oh wait, but you used the reddit comparison. I guess you're invincible.

>>61418501
All that changed is the userbase, and clearly the design didn't scale well. Such an imageboard wasn't meant for the traffic it has today. Generals try to compartmentalize users with a finer grain, but break its very nature in the process.

The existence of imageboards never threatened the rest of the internet. Forums, chat rooms and the like still exist. The issue is that people want to turn imageboards into what they aren't. You're interested in something specific? Cheap chink shit? AK bayonets? E-celebrities? Fine. Have your own place to talk about this specific thing, and you'll be able to create plenty threads on the subject, even have generals on sub-subjects.

4chan is for people to talk with each other on a broad range of subjects, it's not meant to be hijacked to create small independant communities hostile to each other that would be better off elsewhere, nor is it to replace the rest of the entire internet. Reddit, yes Reddit, allows you to create your own little community on a specific aspect. And I don't mean that in a bad way, it's great. And if you don't like Reddit, try some other service that allows that, there's plenty. Just keep in mind it's something different, and that's not what 4chan is.

>>61417720
If it's not that bad you should go back there

>>61415939
/tpg/ is pretty okay
Even though it's mostly did I do good and help me anon desu

>>61415944
I think you should go back

>>61416324

>buh buh 4chan is a weeb site for weebs like myself XDDD
>there is dedicated board for cancerous anime.

please neck yourself.

Can we get rid of desktop threads and ban some of the posters.
Particularly that autist who keeps pretending to be a girl and uses lewd anime girl wallpapers while constantly shitposting "owo" and that guy who keeps posting using trap wallpapers with clearly defined penises that sometimes show through

>>61419197
9gag is pretty much irrelevant nowadays.
and don't you even dare accuse me of "reddit" if you restrict your internet browsing exclusively to the "redpilled" websites.

>>61414260
What is your gif referencing

>>61419353
I wouldn't know what relevant it's been almost 6 years since I've used either

>>61413383
The problem with this solution is that it's too simple. You are using a sledgehammer instead of a chisel.

People here agree that some generals are good (/dpt/). One solution said is just ban generals that aren't /dpt/? But what happens when the community wants a general for something? Would it be banned? How do we know if it'll be a /dpt/ or one of the lame generals? Do we have a trail period? Do you know how annoying that could be to implement/monitor? Would it allow for second chances?

Keep in mind generals formed organically, the community wanted them. Many generals were formed when they already existed (without the term 'general', so e.g. Thinkpad threads could be in the catalog just as long as the general would be).

One solution I've come up with is to "back-sticky" the generals, so they show up in the bottom of the catalog. They don't expire normally, but a new one is made when they hit /vg/'s post/image cap.

This way they stay out of sight, people who like them can use them, they prevent 1 million cyberpunk/private-tracker threads, and, most importantly, because they are 'back-stickied' we remove for the shitpost IV to keep them alive.

>>61413474
/csg/ and /ohm/ are a couple I dont think should be banned.
the stupid question one is a good idea but I never actually get answers in there

>>61419304
nice reddit spacing

>>61413524
Objectively this. One thing I noticed often in /vg/ is that posting anime really get their neurons firing and accuse for "shitting up the thread" because of posting an anime reaction image despite being related to the topic in hand. Also, I can't get why posting an unironic "dumb animeposter" is becoming a trend on this site.

>>61419338
>that guy who keeps posting using trap wallpapers with clearly defined penises that sometimes show through
Pics pls

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almost feels like old /g/
i'd say generals are good containment threads, i just want to see the cancer
1/2

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>>61419996
2/2

>>61419996
don't*

just one thing missing: desktop threads without avatar fagging

>>61413862
A
POO
LOOOOOOOOOOOO

In all seriousness though, it's a prominent example of how generals/subreddits have to resort to intense shitposting to stay alive.

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guys, you know what we should ban from /g/? anime that's what.

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>>61420134

>>61420149
>there are boards

but /g/ is dedicated to technology

>>61420180
>if you have a car, you're not supposed to listen to the radio because the purpose is to drive from a to b
i agree with avatarfagging, otherwise don't be so triggered just because you sit in an anime car

>>61413383
We should enforce the rule restricting images to JUST IMAGES OF TECHNOLOGY. This means restricting American cartoon images and Japanese cartoons.

>inb4 anime website

These animefags and cartoonfags derail threads and it is tolerated because this is a "anime website."

It has been a long time coming.

>>61420252
see last 4 posts

>>61420149
>from Japanese animation and culture to videogames, music, and photography.
Why can't weaboos read? You would think they would be able to because of subtitles but maybe not.
>>61420180
>>61420212
>>61420263
You have six boards devoted to your Vietnamese sock puppetry

>>61415885
Fuck off faggot no one said shit about Hitler but pol ruins this fucking board with their constant insecurities

>>61420149
disgusting phone poster

>>61420336
so music in cars should be banned.
a-ha.
>>61420407
my pc is compiling and needs the RAM.

>>61413383
We should restrict phone posters from /g/. The problem is that the average level of intelligence for phone posters is significantly below the tolerated threshold of the board and leads to the obvious: thread derailment and a continuous stream of unwelcome shitposts.

>>61420419
nobody said music in cars should be banned. we were talking about anime, stop switching subjects.

>>61420336
and you have any other website to talk about technology, but you chose the one themed around anime and otaku culture, which you seem to despise

>>61420437
it's an analogy. see
>>61420212

>>61420419
>so music in cars should be banned.
>a-ha.
What?

>>61420407
>>61420419
No excuse for phone posters.

>>61420443
I don't despise anime as I watch it myself. But I don't go on /g/ to talk about anime. I go on /a/ to discuss anime. I don't go on /pol/ to discuss history or /b/ to discuss literature. It is a matter of keeping things germane.

>>61420461
Ha ha
I'm posting on my phone

My laptop broke and I don't want to get up from bed after just waking up and use my desktop computer

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>>61420461
happy, shithead?

>>61420482
I've been seeing more /pol/ posters posting politics on this board in here than anime posters which is weird because this is an anime website.

Racism is not technology guys

>>61420461
He's saying listening to A-ha in your car is perfectly fine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

/csg/ should be banned. chinese stuff isn't even technology related

>>61413474
Even if you take away generals, people would still just have them without calling them a general. We just basically need people to make good threads again really.

>>61420593
or /gg/

>>61414952
Not an argument.

>>61420637
A board for just 20 generals (at the moment)? Is /g/ really big enough for it to be split?

>>61414888
No, they're deleting posts by /pol/tards posting politics on the fucking technology board. Black people is NOT technology.

>>61414507
That spacing came from /pol/ lol

>>61420740
they keep adding new generals every month.
it would solve 2 problems: 1) all the generals are gone from /g/ without a ban 2) /gg/ can actually grow their own little community and grow without "interfering" with half the anons on this board, as this thread proves.

Ban GPU/CPU shilling and le BFTO how will Intel/AMD/Nvidia ever recover, it belongs to /v/.
Ban consumer grade tech, you can have a separate board for that, that will take away the Apple shilling and shitpost.
This board should be about technology enthusiasts, that includes programming, electronics, software development, encryption, you get the idea.
Games discussion belongs to an already established board.
MAKE /G/ GREAT AGAIN

Why didn't you guys just migrate to the other place?

>>61420830
cripplechan? was there, was shit.

>>61413474
The generals are the only good thing about 4chan and are the sole reason why I ever still come back to this website. I rarely ever go on /g/ anymore, but a couple years ago pretty much all the new threads were made by /v/fags asking how to hack computers, or Tyrones asking how to unlock their stolen iphones.

General threads establish conversational direction. For example I only ever go on /an/ for the fungi thread and the plant thread. I wouldn't go there if it wasn't for those threads, but since they exist I give that board frequent traffic.

>>61420844
That's the thing though, these retards want the threads to not have a purpose so they can more easily derail them to be about jews or black people

>>61414486
This
If you get rid of the generals then there's basically nothing left but shitposts and shill threads.

>>61420839
>>61420830
I went there for about a year. It was good but then the whole site fell through and mootwheels disappeared.

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Vote in my strawpoll pls

So far 73% of /g/ want to see the generals gone.

http://www.strawpoll.me/13454513

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>>61420482
But no one is discussing anime tho?

>>61420756
>>61404474
see it in the archives
doesn't look like pol to me

>>61418307
do you even read bro

>>61420733
>You have to be 18 to post here
yes you are correct

>>61420495
>>61420149

Look at these retards cherrypicking.

>There are boards dedicate to a variety of topics, from Japanese animation...

E.g., you belong in your containment board with all of the other closet pedophiles.

>>61425171
your post has nothing to do with technology other than a git reference, hitler.
c''mon dictate us your rules of /g/

>>61413383
Actually, I think deleting stupid questions would be better than deleting /sqt/.

>>61413383
Keep /dpt/ to keep programming shares to 1 thread. Ban language wars inside /dpt/
Keep /sqt/ to keep idiots to 1 thread
Maybe merge /csg/, /tpg/ and apple genetql to /gear/ general. Ban all other generals.

Ban them all. /dpt/ suffers from the same issues as other generals. Anyone with a legitimate program question should be allowed to make their own thread and expect serious replies instead of
>>/dpt/

>>61414469
Seconding this.

>>61413383
Some generals like /pcgb/ and /spg/ are containment threads. If /g/ didn't have them there'd be a lot more clutter.

/edc/, /bst/, /wg/, etc should be banned

saved from dying

>>61413474
But isn't it better to contain some of the shitposting to generals vs regular boards?

>>61413524
Nothing wrong with anime.
I'm not a fan but as someone who's
been here for 10yr+ you can help but
feel an odd affection for it.

>>61413926
It's the dozen "OMG >>>/pol/!" reactions
from newfags and outsiders that are the
real downside from pol. It's getting to be
that one can't call someone a fag or a nigger
nowadays on /g/ without some gay nigger
sperging out about it.

>>61428444
you know, i'm with you.
I'm a marxist, but that doesn't matter on 4chan, where everyone is a fag. And a potential nigger jew.
old 4chan was dark just because it was _the_ internet's shithole.
>then came the sjw's from le reddit and ruined it.
>and the unironic racists

>>61413474
If there had to be one change, just one change to 4chan, user created and moderated sub threads that would act as generals.
They would follow global rules moreso then board specific ones and boards would act as themes.
Instead of bump limits/image ones, you would look at how long a thread can stick around without activity, which on /g/ is 3 hours.
This would allow people who want a community to not get fucked by mods who one day after years decided your continent is low quality, but these diaper threads are just fine.
It may fracture a boards userbase a bit because many people who would go to a general would just bypass the boards main page and go straight to those threads.
An overall quality improvement because the community that set the thread up can act as mod for that thread so people who really don't want to deal with some cocksuckers could ban a user from posting.

also before I am directed to another chan, the issue, at least the main one I see between how it runs and how 4chan runs, is 4chan has some semblance of a community for the boards, from the smallest to the hidden ones, it has more community then that one does, handing user moderation to threads under a theme with just a theme and global rules applying to it would be far better than letting users create boards as ego will have someone create a new board for a topic that already exists.

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>>61413474
>"As le oldfag"
dropped

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>>61417003
moot a cute

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>>61428444
I also agree with this. As a conservative libertarian, the_donald and stormfront have completely taken away my home, the board that _was_ ironically natsoc, /pol/.

>>61414838
/sp/ is generals: the board

>>61417003
>Femoot
o-oh my

>>61414838
/jp/

>>61413383
I think banning a majority of generals would be nice. Especially those that do not make any sense.

Headphone general deserves to be in /mu/

Ptg needs to be in /t/

Lastly do we really need a portable media general? It's such a waste.

>>61414508
It's a good idea I will be sure to use that. But still it would help getting rid of them.

>>61414787
No they get mad because you spam on /v/ with everything unrelated to video games.

>>61414805
Yeah we need to do that. A general board and put everything general discussion on there. So Reddit can have it's own hivemind area.

>>61422115
23% want generals gone, 77% think generals are beneficial to the board/site.

>generals gone
No, fuck that or atleast do not remove
>/tpg/
>/csg/
>/cosg/
>/nrg/
>/ntr/

We need to have information on what parts do we get to our thinkpads, straight from china, so we can use our CloverOS to contribute to /ntr/ while getting our chinese cartoons from /nrg.
Headphones and watches are dumb. Just get some sennheiser DT770 and a casio watch. That should work out great. Also don't forget to get your daily dose of IBM Model M keyboard typing everyday.

>>61413533
I apped several recruitment drives ago and one of my topics was how bizarre mod actions can appear when someone summons them into a general as a form of retaliation and the mods are totally unaware of the weeks or months of context surrounding a specific set of reported posts in, say, a dwarf fortress general (which they would never otherwise visit). I was accepted, but real life went into overdrive between my app and acceptance and I decided to abort before starting onboarding.

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>>61415230
YOU LOOSE!

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>>61413383
>I think doing shit like I like instead of how it has always been is the right direction

>>61413474
>I'm an oldfag
>I've been on /b/ since 2014
>fuck your other boards I have no idea about
that's how you sound like

The level of normie and phone posters is astonishing.

>>61413474
>and if nobody liked the thread, it wouldn't even be replied to
yeah but now when people don't like threads they comment on them with something stupid like kys, instead of just letting it die.

What's the point?

Of caring about 4chan? Or /g/. Can someone give me a sincere answer? About why it's worth the time to think about this place in terms of quality or trying to improve it. It's a public pool, owned by a single person, ran as a commercial operation. You have no stake in it. It's like getting mad that the front page of Reddit is garbage. It's just the nature of things.

>>61431282
>YOU LOOSE!
No I not.
Me tight as fuck.

>>61431329
>the level of normie
(You) have to talk. The newfagfilter was activated.
not him btw

>>61413533
Congratulations, you and >>61431057 have avoided having to give the gook legitimate identification that would revoke your anonymity like fucking idiots.

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>>61413524
Finally, an anon who knows what this board needs

>>61420756
You're right. Antiquated farm equipment from the 1800s is not technology.

Generals suck, but some do actually discuss technology and have good content
Ptg should be fucking burned though, they literally discuss things barely /g/ related and the threads start with circle jerk pictures of people in the thread. Out of all the boards I use, /g/ is probably the best balanced in terms of fun to discussion ratio, but it's fucking shameful we have a thread like that allowed here.

Lets ban elitism instead

Ban the general that is constantly shilling Pantsudev's site.

Ban /pol/ threads/posters:
>muh SJWs
>muh pajeets
>muh jews
>muh mudslimes

Ban /v/ threads/posters:
>AMD BTFO AND ON SUICIDE WATCH
>muh gaymen benchmark for a non-gaymen product

Ban blog threads:
>hey guise guess what's in the box

Ban shills.

Ban tech support threads.

Ban PC building threads.

Ban pseudo desktop threads.

Ban maki spammer(s) and other shitty waifu spammers.

Generals are a mixed bag. Sometimes during an event or a product launch, they're a necessary evil to contain streams of shitposts (see: /v/). But looking at the current state of /g/ from the catalog, generals are getting out of hand. Opening a thread is no longer a matter of joining an interesting and spontaneous discussion, but rather a matter of joining which circlejerking inner circle.

>>61413383
Just filter them you autistic fuck. They're literally the easiest things to filter.

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>>61436315
Sticking your head in the ground doesn't solve anytihng

36% want them gone/put away
36% want only /dpt/ and /sqt/ but the rest gone
28% want to stick to them, the vast minority

HIROSHIMOOT!