/fit/, how can we bring back the good old days of actual fitness

>>41322922
If you try to make an actual fitness advice thread you get bombarded with read the sticky

>>41322922
Who is that semen demon?

>>41322922
>>41322947
The problem is people don't report off topic threads.

read the sticky

>>41322947
>>41322922
Maybe you too should go down to the local pharmacy, buy a bottle of viagra, and suck each other's dicks while reading the sticky

We get hundreds of advice threads a day. We don't need even more faggots posting their deformed bodies here

>>41322922
hips too wide, 3/10

>>41322922
The topics on the board have become so stale that people who actually lift just shot post and new fags who don't ask stupid questions.

The stupid fucking sticky links are broken and like 10 years old

at least the sticky isn't as faggoty as some of the other boards

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>>41322922
well, there's usually /bwg/ up at some point in the day, but it dies with no bumps rather quick
>>>fit>>41322628

>>41323024
Literally every thread should be any advice/discussion thread that's literally the whole point of the board you dumb fuck.

>>41323415
No you stupid retarded newcomer. /fit/ is a place for bros to come to do bro stuff with other bros
Chadposting, brapposting, fph, and the other garbage /fit/ produces is about bros broing it up with other bros. If you don't like it, you're not a bro, bro
This is like expecting /g/ to not be filled with consumerist garbage and /pol/ not be filled with interracial porn. It just isn't natural

>>41322947
Yeah I mean wtf is the point of even having a sticky at a place like 4chan. Think really hard about the purpose of this board and realize how stupid a sticky even is.

1. Having a sticky is a cop out for people to have actual discussion.
2. Mods don't shut down and ban blatant off topic posts or troll posts.
3. Because actual discussion about fitness never happens due to "read the sticky faggot" type comments, there is never legitimate banter in those nonexistent threads
4. banter is now held as threads of their own, which encourages troll posting and off topic posting.
5. Janitors don't do their jobs

I've noticed this trend across all the boards I frequent here. The boards where actual good discussion is held are usually very slow.

I think 4chan is a great place where free speech meets good discussion meets good banter. It is (well was) a great trifecta of discourse. Now because mods won't keep things on topic, and because the sticky exists, making most on topic threads moot, all that is left over are off topic threads and banter threads.

>>41323524
I've been here since 2012 you dunce. If you want to "bro it up with bros" get some friends you fuckin homo. You faggots have absolutely shitted up this board to the point people think this is actually what the board is for.

>>41323559
I have no friends. That's why I'm on 4chan

>>41323564
Then the best possible thing you could do is leave this site forever instead of wasting your life posting about sips and random bullshit.

>>41322988
They get reported, the mods just don't do there jobs anymore.

>>41322922
we use to have regular doctor/phDs give advice here on things like sleep, nutrition, etc. it was fucking fantastic as a source.

I think most people left around 2013-2014 around the time scooby got doxxed and /pol/ and /r9k/ collectively started taking up our advice and started shitting up the board and turning into a low IQ shitfest.

for example a general for fucking fatties never happened and CBTs wasn't full of hungry skellies but /fit/'s original purpose was strong enough to convince fat fucks from other boards to come here.

>>41323559
woah man. this is where the bros on the 'ch0n come to hang! don't like it? GTFO

>>41323564

the bros on the 'ch0n are your friends, breh

>>41322922
> boo hoo
dude you want a good thread make a good thread or comment in good threads
removing shit threads doesnt automatically increase good ones.
this thread of yours is shit tier BTW, lower than all of the crap you complained about
fuck off you big baby

>>41322922
OI BRUV, READ THE FUCKING STICKY. FACE, FRAME, HEIGHT. Chad is eating whatever and you are fucking stumped

>>41322922

Get rid of the cancerous Zyzz culture.

>>41322922
I count 7 abs

>>41323554

>yfw /gif/ now has better discussion, community, and board culture than /fit/

>>41323554
The sticky exists because otherwise we'd have a hundred threads everyday asking the exact same DYEL shit.

>>41326348
This. Without the sticky we'd have 200
>I'm skelly/fat and have never exercised before. How do I get jacked?
threads a day.

That said, I think posting "read the sticky" to try and kill threads obviously not covered by it should be a bannable offense

I've only been here for about half a year but I've been on /tg/ (and /b/) since 2007 and /lit/ since I don't know. I can't say what /fit/ should or shouldn't be, but I can tell you what has made /tg/ and /lit/ worse boards.

>generals
The number one board quality reducer, in my opinion, is generals. Back in the day, we used to post our specific problems, questions or topics, and then allow others to use our threads for related questions by adding, "also, x general" at the end of the OP. Generals came about because people who didn't have much to say just wanted to immerse themselves within the specific topic in an easy way. Nowadays, if you have an idea about something and make a long post about it, you get replies like >nice blog faggot.

There is absolutely no need for a fatty general or a powerlifting general. Instead, if you're fat, write about your specific situation - or your way out of being fat. Make a well thought-out post and then say "if other fatties have related problems, this is a fatty general." This means that from the moment a thread is created, there is something tangible to start with (>implying fat isn't always tangible hue hue).

>no mods
The second thing that ruins boards is shit moderation. All boards need visible bans. Yes, it's easy to evade bans, but the red text USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST shows newfags what's acceptable and what's not. I haven't seen anyone get b& on /fit/ even though several threads have absolutely no value.

>newfags not lurking
The third thing that kills boards is people not understanding that they are on 4chan. Each and every board has a specific culture that you need to ease into. And each and every board is comprised of racist, sexist losers who live in their mothers' basements. Yes, there are doctorfags and lawyerfags here, but no matter how successful you façade is, if you come to 4chan you are a loser.

cont.

>>41327054

It's been a long time since 4chan was a meeting place for pedophiles and wannabe Columbine shooters with furries and nazis added as a spice, who all watched Evangelion to drown the pain of living in a world they simply could not understand. This doesn't mean that 4chan is without a culture of it's own. Each and every person who comes here must be made to understand this, through the simple imperative "lurk moar". Every bad post, every shit advice, every moronic question, and everything that can be answered by googling, must be met with these words. Always lurk moar. If you're upset with the word nigger, lurk moar. If you can't, at the very least, watch rekt gifs, but preferably worse stuff, lurk moar. Threads exclusively made to talk about race and politics belong on /pol/ and /b/, but if you're posting your progress and someone tells you that no matter how much you lift, you'll still be a nigger, you have to realise that they did nothing out of the ordinary on this site. They don't have to go back to /pol/, it's you who have to lurk moar.

I think it's great that people tell newfags to read the sticky. It's exactly the kind of attitude the entire board needs to have. As it is, I think the main problem /fit/ has is that completely unwarranted threads are allowed to exist, instead of mods banning the posters and deleting the threads.

Some people complain about /r9k/ fucking up this board. Let me tell you now: all of 4chan is /r9k/ to some extent. If you don't realise this, lurk moar. I get that not having a gf doesn't have jack shit to do with, say, how much salmon you can eat before you get too much heavy metals in your system. But telling people who complain about being alone to get back to /r9k/ means you haven't understood what kind of place 4chan is. Everyone here is alone, no matter how many friends they have in real life. We are detached, that's why we come here and joke about the holocaust and other shit that would scare normalfags away. Cont.

>>41327208

In absolutely no way does this excuse posts that don't have anything to do with fitness. Both racist threads and feel threads have to GTFO if they haven't got to do with being or getting /fit/. But not understanding that racism and feeling alone are integral parts of 4chan just shows that you need to lurk moar.

To compare with /lit/ - some people complain about constant Evolaposting (or at least they used to, I don't really go anywhere else but /fit/ as it is). They didn't understand that if you have a literature board on 4chan, you will get people posting about racism. You will get people posting about being losers. This doesn't excuse threads that clearly are about /pol/ related topics, but not understanding that you will never have a board without the word nigger marks you as a newfag and shows that you need to lurk moar.

Newfags fuck up all boards and force shitty memes. They forced David Foster Wallace on /lit/, quests on /tg/ and project Chanology on all of us. The only proper response is to ban off-topic threads, non-funny OT posting, and to tell people to lurk moar, as well as lurking moar yourself. Regular /fit/izens can't ban, but they can tell newfags to lurk.

I'm gonna stick around for half an hour to answer shit and watch Scooby, then I'm leaving for an evening in the sun with friends I'm too emotionally stunted to connect with.

In West Philadelphia born and raised.

t. the cancer that once killed /b/

>>41322922
I feel like my chest will never be as juicy as most of the people on here. Like there's a solid inch thick layer of muscle I'm missing

>>41322947
Fucking this. The sticky has good diet advice, I'll give it that, but a lot of the exercise advice is shitty for anyone except wannabe powerlifters.

>>41322922
Not gonna lie, former /fit/ supporter here. It's fucking hilarious watching this board crash and burn. But seriously, we can't let anyone get their hands on advice that helps them improve their fitness.

>>41325067
My god you're a faggot

>>41325204
>Removing all the bad threads won't fill the board up with good threads

What else would be left you mong? You retard always say this "why don't you just make ur own threads" shit but they do get made all the time, they just never get replies and get bumped off the board by the 3000 manlet threads.

>>41322922
Ban generals and QTDDTOT. Have active mods that shut down off topic threads with visible bans.

>>41322922
Facial aesthetics is fitness related tho and tinder threads are funny

>>41322922
The new owner doesnt give a shit and isn't staying on top of the moderation team. Thats why all boards have generally declined.

Plus the massive NEET influx from /pol/. Remember when people would post job/salary threads and half the people were PhD candidates or clearing $100k/yr and they were telling the truth?

>>41327324
>mod this guy

>>41328959
>everyone who disagrees with me politically is a basement dwelling NEET

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>>41328959
>Remember when people would post job/salary threads and half the people were PhD candidates or clearing $100k/yr and they were telling the truth?
>telling the truth

>>41329105
>being this new

>>41329121
>damage control

I'm gonna bump because I think this is a vital discussion we need to have here.

>>41326348
you didn't think about your response very hard

wtf is the point of this board if not for discussion? Have you clicked on any of the sticky links lately?

>>41322922

I remember when this board was full of decent advice. The racist jokes and the jokes about manlets were usually ironic. Few tried to genuinely tear down other users.

Now it's a bunch of r9k and pol autists who can't stfu about Chad.

>>41330188
>discussion
Want to know why there's such a massive amount of shitposting lately? Because there's nothing left to discuss. There's no new and innovative methods in picking things up and putting them back down, is there? Everything that could be said about lifting has been said if you've been going at it for more than a year.

>>41327383
Post body with timestamp

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>>41322947
This

Death to the sticky! It must die so fit can survive!

>>41323554
the sticky exists because nobody wants to spend literal decades answering the same basic beginner questions over and over and over and over again
>hai guise how do i lose fat and gain muscle
>hey how can i tone up for summer
>how do i into six pack abs
>will whey protein kill my kidneys
>is creatine an illegal steroid
>will X diet make me lose weight

nobody wants the board flooded with dozens of redundant noob threads at all times

The sticky is good shit. I lost 50lbs thanks to it and some determination.

>>41328959
>Remember when people would post job/salary threads and half the people were PhD candidates or clearing $100k/yr and they were telling the truth?

if you ever believed this then you are a retarded newfag lmao
>math phd
>any job i want
>300k starting