Every board is allowed one meta thread

where does it say every board is allowed one meta thread?

i think the thing that's wrong with /g/ is people who think this board belongs to them and that they can impose what they think is allowed because they think of this place as something more than it is. like it's your local pub. like people are here to talk about what people here eat or drive or whatever.

>>58333423
Hiro made this rule on /qa/ in a post.

Ban Indian IPs, Windows users and phoneposters

>>58333400
It's not such a problem right now, but this last year there have been literally hundreds of "should I upgrade to windows 10" threads, sometimes there were several of them at once.

General threads for current issues like that are needed, and temp ban anyone who makes another beyond the existing.

This board is what it is. It'll evolve as it goes. People come and go. Trying to control it will just turn it into reddit.

>>58333486
then it should be easy to link to. or he must have changed https://www.4chan.org/rules to reflect that. i'll take a link to either place where it specifically says this ( https://www.4chan.org/rules#qst in particular says no meta-threads, although it's not super clear if that's referring to something about quests that i don't know)

>>58333523
If I knew Hiro's complete username I could find it in the desuarchive

>>58333400
OS flags, we need OS flags like /int/.

>>58333633
hiro definitely posted in here last night that meta threads are garbage. if i knew his complete username i could find it in the desuarchive. you'll just have to trust me.

>>58333400
/g/ is fine as it is but to make it better

>add os (and maybe browser) flags
>replace captcha with programming challenges (eg you must write fizzbuzz to post, simple algorithms, data structures, etc)

The fizzbuzz captcha shouldn't examine the code but the output of the code so this could be tricky security wise

>>58333808
search the archive for meta thread discussions, you idiot. There are numerous threads and references to him making this post.

>>58333884
>you must write fizzbuzz to post
this is a general technology board. if you want a programming board maybe you should have lurked and posted more on /prog/ and it wouldn't have been nuked during the textboard cleanup.

>>58333921
Great! should make it easier for you to find evidence of the claim you made earlier.

i don't understand why you think it's my job to find it. i mean, i searched high and low, and it's not there. since it's ostensibly my responsibility, i assume you'll just take me at my word. i comprehensively searched the whole archive and your claim is not backed up by evidence. hiro never said shit about meta threads.

>>58333798

They are useless. You can fake any OS you want.

>>58333936
not him, but if you give enough of a shit to fake browser or OS, then who cares? post flags don't have any substantial integrity to them.

i'm not even clear what the purpose of post flags would be except that "reddit haz them lol *holds up spork*", but the fact that you can spoof them isn't a compelling reason not to. the compelling reason not to is that it's not especially beneficial.

>make a Linux/programming board
>ban all anime posters from /g/
wew that was hard right?

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>>58333983
>banning anime on an anime website

Ban all the posters I don't like because I'm too lazy to filter.

Figuring out who those are is left as an exercise to the reader.

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>>58333936
>>58333951

>>58333983
/thread

>>58334062
if you think that's fun then just go to reddit.

It's just sad, really. I thought it would be a discussion about technology. Turns out it's just NEET pedophiles sharing pictures from their anime folder and their desktop.

Then it's either video card discussions or something else that's inane. The generals are okay, but it's disappointing.

Is there any website that has hardcore technology?

I think that we need to come to an agreement about what sort of shitposting we're fine with and which we're not.

And then we need the jannies to stop sucking of trannies and start sweeping up said shitposts.

That, and actually daring to not being so ironically detached from everything and daring to have opinions about things and talk about them would be great. But that's just a dream.

>>58334072
there are lots of other threads. if you're just gravitating toward the anime desktop stuff then i don't know what to say. hide them or leave. it's not super complicated.

>>58333951
Yes. On other imageboards I've seen, board flags serve as the weakest form of identification (exactly because everyone can use any flag they want, yet on slower boards you can tell regular posters apart easier) and a compromise to get rid of identityfags (it's not remotely as disruptive as unnecessary name/tripcode posts or avatar images).

The only downside on 4chan, of course, would be the same mentality as on pol/int:
>of course that's what a X flag poster would say

>>58334071
Which subreddit even has os flags? It sounds you're the one who's better acquainted with reddit.

>>58333400

auto delete " > tfw too intelligent to <normieTask> " posts

>>58333991
Please desist from posting poorly drawn Japanese cartoons.

>>58334085
to be clear, 4chan is only kind of anonymous for users to one another. it's not an anonymous message board in the sense that we're actually free to say what we want. if moot wanted to out us or hiro wanted to sell us out to law enforcement, they could absolutely do that.

i've said this a while back in another thread, but it's worth reflecting on: there is absolutely no evidence that 4chan has ever vigorously fought either a subpoena or any other inquiry into data about users.

what should we take from that? do we have any reason to believe that moot, who famously complained that he didn't have money for anything (let alone expensive/competent lawyers) and got burned out and resigned because of the fappening, would have splashed out to resist *any* attorney's letterhead demanding server logs?

i'm not saying he did sell us out, but we have absolutely no proof whatsoever that he didn't, and 4chan has definitely cooperated with police after some /b/tard posted about shootings and stuff.

all of this is to say that we're not really anonymous, and if 4chan decided to assign us all with IP-specific hashes indicating that post #2 is the same as post #5 within a given thread, it wouldn't fundamentally change the anonymity of the site as a whole.

>>58334118
tldr

>>58333400

/g/ is perfectly fine.

There's talks about hardware, software.
There's shilling for and against companies.
There's the "halp guyz, I'm noob, what do?" theads.

All in all it's pretty enjoyable.
I know people bitch in a "stop liking what I don't like" kind of way..
But GODDAMNIT there's more than 120 threads up at the same time. Don't you think it's OK if you folks only like 10% of them? I think it's more then enough.


>tl; dr: this "meat thread" is cancer, sage goes in all fields

>>58334091
i'm just saying that if you want user flags, go to reddit. i didn't realize you were complaining about reddit not specifically having operating system flags. this seems like an incredibly nit-picky argument you're trying to start.

>>58334127
ok

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Ban winshills

>>58334134
Not trying to start anything, /int/ and /pol/ have country flags and it works for them considering their board topic, it would be cool if /g/ had os flags considering our board topic.
That's all, there's nothing more to it.

>>58334197
i mean it'd be cool if we could upvote each other's posts, and have subthreads, and have more robust thread hiding. maybe we should make a system to donate money to 4chan in the name of a user/post that we think is especially excellent. we could call it 4chan [some precious metal]

i'm sure some argument can be made for all of this stuff, but they all seem weak to me except that it would be mildly amusing and make this site more like reddit. if you want that, that's fine, just get your fix of reddit stuff on reddit and then get your fix of 4chan stuff here.

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>>58334221
Have you sucked your daily dick yet son

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>>58334219
>Implement a feature from other 4chan boards
>From /pol/ and /int/ no less
>Somehow makes the site more reddit

lets change all references to "you're, they're" etc. so that it becomes "you are, they are" etc.

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>>58334242

>>58333496
>Ban Indian IPs, Windows users and phoneposters
That's racist

Posted from my Windows Phone, German IP

>>58334333
>copying /pol/ is better
>implying /pol/ and /int/ didn't copy flags or flair or whatever faggot shit from reddit in the first place
lol holy shit

>>58333400
Introduce User Agents in form
Operating System: Browser
Debian: Iceweasel
OS X: Safari
ans so on
This would allow us to filter: phoneposters, mactoddlers, botnet shills and lincucks, on personal preference, thus improving the conversation flow.
Yes, one can change it's user agent, but normies won't bother to do it.

>>58333400
Divide this board in several boards and combine with /diy/ in one subgroup in this manner:

Mobile Devices and their software - /mobi/

Programming (and Web maybe) - /pr/

Technology general (headphones, fridges and other music players) /tech/

Computer hardware (Premium Apple products, $300 keyboards, Nvidia, AMD, Intel shilling, Chinkpad circlejerks, Reddit stations and build advices) - /hw/

Software discussions and tech support (Operating systems, browsers, antiviruses and how to hack a Gibson goes here) - /sw/

DIY and electronic madskillz - /diy/

>>58334611
>I want my safe space for discussion
>>>/reddit/

>>58334611
no i find this extremely homosexual

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>>58334627
>muh edgy 4chinzz tough haxor club
Fuck off back to >>>/b/

>>58334627
>>58334629
>>>>/b/

>>58334118
The only sensible person I've heard on this board

Remove gaming posters.

Who cares? 4chan is too large and open to be a solid community. This thing is a husk that died sometime around 2010. It's like wondering why Facebook is garbage.

I'm just too much of a pussy to block this terrible site.

Bring back textboards and have programming there.

Get rid of all linuxfags and make a containment text board for them. They are the ones most likely to bitch and whine about literally every other group of posters.

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Bring back desktop thread

>>58335018
i

>>58333400
-move computer customization threads to a separate board (desktops, buttstations, homescreens, wm ricing, guts etc). They can have extra options like multiple images per post (one is your desktop, other is your conkyrc. one if your guts from one angle, one is from another etc)
-enforce board and global rules. that should be enough.

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>>58334611
>let's divide one slow board into 28 kind of overlapping boards!
>surely making boards more and more niche will improve the level of discussion by filtering out shitposters and also pretty much everyone else!

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>>58333983
>>ban all anime posters from /g/
So, ban 99% of the people who come here. Great fucking idea, numbnuts. Did you think that one up while taking the short bus to 'school'?

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>>58334127
>I'm too stupid to read more than 140 characters
>>>/Twitter/

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>>58334494

>>58335312
/pol/tard redditors, everybody

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>>58335316

>>58335140
>I want to see good threads with useful information and sicussions being wiped in 1 hour due to high density of other quality threads such as "Is X a meme and botnet?", "/g/, how's new Apple Macbook, do you like it?", "What video card do I choose, Nvidia or AMD?"

We should ban windows users. Not even trolling. Not only should they be banned from posting, but banned from accessing /g/ altogether. They don't even deserve to get to observe our conversations.

>>58333400
/g/ is the place you go if you want to argue about the same thing you argued about the day before. Every day, in every thread, there are manchildren bickering about Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux, Chrome vs. Firefox, AMD vs. Nvidia, AMD vs. Intel, MPC-HC vs. VLC vs. mpv, Android vs. iOS. It's always Product vs. Product too, because you consumerist shills define yourselves based on which products you use rather than what you use them for.

I don't really know how to solve this though, unless you all find a way to simultaneously stop being retarded.

>>58333932
As a newcomer to this thread, I don't understand why you care. You're the one who gives a shit about finding Hiro's post so if you want it you can find it. Overall, whether or not you believe OP is irrelevant because you are irrelevant, unless you're a mod or a janitor, in which case you can easily get confirmation that this rule exists if you don't know it already. I have no idea whether OP is telling the truth or not, but you really don't matter enough for it to be worth it sitting here tard-wrangling with you for hours because even if you don't believe OP you can't do shit.

split consumerism and g

>>58333400
I hate the blatantly obvious self-replying shills:

>Hi everyone! Seen the new Samsung Xperia iPhone?
>Hi OP! I am a different person. Yes, I love it, going to order mine today.
>Oh, good choice you two anons who are 100% not me.
>Thanks, unique poster! I am sure /g/ is smart and will purchase and also buy or otherwise legally obtain the new Samsung Xperia iPhone for only $399 ($199 on contract)

Per thread poster ID is a thing on other boards. Let us have it too.

>>58335572
>As a newcomer to this thread
okay
>the rest of your rant
it's literally just asking him to provide some proof of his claim. why you're so resistant to this request is almost bewildering.

>>58333400
>os flags
>ban Indians
>ban AMD losers

PLEASE CREATE A PROGRAMMING BOARD

>>58334494
>copying /pol/
Its a flag mate

>>58333400
I dont think its that broken to be honest, some things that could improve it though
>more event specific stickies, like CES or whatever
all my other ideas just wind up being whats wrong with the people that use /g/, like I'd like to see more of the niche threads we used to have (watches specifically), but thats not really something that any one man can fix

>>58335208
can we see a revive of the word numbnut?

retro shits and nostalgia fagging

>same 5-10 posts and pictures over and over
>group mis-remembering that their childhood tech wasn't shit
>wont migrate to /vr/ because they get more attention here, everyone is doing this on the other board so they couldn't pretend to be unique
>threads are 220 posts of nothing

>>58333400
We /q/ now?

>>58337153
Ancient tech is still tech.
If you don't like it just ignore it.

>>58335734
Because everyone except you or him has seen the fucking thing by now. If it wasn't real this thread would have been deleted.

>>58337189
not when they just take pictures of them jerking off onto the plastic and it hasn't started up in over 15 years

>>58334611
idiot