/gmt/ - /g/ meta thread

>>58905860
I agree with banning the number of generals. Some of them are way too specific, and we could combine several into one.

>>58905901
>>58905860
But wont that just make more spam threads?

That implies people who just came here check for generals

>>58905957
Is to>>58905937

Kill the sticky. Stallman is a communist piece of shit.

>>58905972
What if we replaced Stallman with another /g/ idol like Terry? There was already a vote on this, although it was probably rigged by Terry's followers.

>>58905860
>we have too many generals
>make another general

>>58905988
But this is different. Those threads are recreated every single day. I have trouble believing this will become a constant thread.

>>58905986
http://www.strawpoll.me/12319999
Vote on our /g/ idol. CAPTCHAs enabled on this poll.

>>58906018
>Ben Kernighan
Literally who?

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Fuck hardware or buying threads. Literally just open your search bar and go to any modern site to find reviews on hardware you're interested in.

Headphone threads are worthless

Spec threads are literally screenshots of text representing hardware. Aka worthless

Fetch threads are slightly more interesting but that's not saying much. Worthless

Guts threads are dumber than everything I've mentioned so far. Just pictures of computer components. Worthless

The only good generals are the programming and web dev ones. The Linux general is okay in theory but it turns into people starting flame wars instantly.

But the most important thing to remember about my complaints is I really hate consumer threads bc there are literally hundreds of websites devoted to reviewing and comparing products.

>>58906037
oh fugg, I meant Brian Kernighan
pls don't kill me

>>58906073
This, although I believe that Chink Shit General is also valid

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>>58906123

>This, although I believe that Chink Shit General is also valid

Chink shit thread is the definition of consumerism. How is a thread filled with knockoff recommendations related to technology? Should we also have an eBay thread too for getting good deals?

>>58906253
>Chink shit thread is the definition of consumerism. How is a thread filled with knockoff recommendations related to technology? Should we also have an eBay thread too for getting good deals?
kek, that is basically what /tpg/ is now. There truly is a godafwul general for everything

>>58905860
i would like this to happen but i do not think it will happen. people are not interested in conversation, well not enough people are. remember /nsg/

I want the whole board to be generals.
The discussion within them is of much higher quality than "RATE MY BUILD THREAD #98928392832" and GPU shitpost thread #9819829389328932

The rules are fine. They do not need to change. If you don't like a thread, blame the person who started it.
>Waaah waaaah this thread is a general
So?
>Waaah waaah they're discussing things that don't interest me
Then don't read those threads. If that leaves you with no threads to read, either start a good thread or stop coming here.

Personally, the only changes I would like to see on /g/ are:
>Less whinging about Pajeets
>Only one browser b8 thread at a time (yes, another general!)
>More talk about hardware jobs and less talk about programming
>A general for certifications, getting IT jobs, etc, but only if people are going to post in it
>Less b8 all round
>No more "I want to buy headphones but I am entitled to only the finest headphones so tell me what headphones are objectively best for muh gaymen even though we all know that headphones of a similar price are going to be borderline-indistinguishable in quality" cancer
>OP needs to kys

If we can achieve all those, /g/ will be perfect.

>>58905860
oh look, a general's general

Why not make a /gg/ board just like /v/ has its own /vg/?

>>58905860
yes

>>58905860
Is time to create a proper board for consumerism and rename this board as computers, IT, or whatever.

>>58907595
>computers, IT, or whatever.
So...technology?

>>58905972
kys

>>58905986
no

>>58906018
rigged

>>58906018
You missed one:
https://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php/Linux

>>58907604
somehow technology doesn't work, we need ideas

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The only pic I would agree to replace Stallman with is this one, and is obviously not a popular choice.

Just give up already and accept Stallman you trolls.

>Do you care about bloat
>Yes
>Ubuntu and its spinoffs are listed
That shit is bloated and slow as jesus christ rising from the grave

>>58907724
Also
>LFS
>Not real operative systems
Literally what? LFS is building and compiling your own distro from scratch. It's like Gentoo for kids with endless time

>>58906018
Stallman is a fucking hack at this point, but Ritchie seems a bit generous for this board.

Thus Terry, who could easily be mistaken for an elaborate 4chan troll, should be our mascot.

>>58907778
fuck off troll, you are not convincing anyone

ban >>>/ptg/

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>>58907807
poor baby can't get an invite

>>58905860
>Half the board is becoming generals, taking up space for potential threads. We can overcome this by placing a limit on the number of generals allowed at a time.
I'd rather have 15 generals than ten more retarded threads, even though I only visit one general regularly.

>>58906253
>How is a thread about buying cheap tech related to technology?
gee I have no idea.

>>58907989
that thread is basically consumer reviews and suggests not technology

Deleting generals won't restart the stagnant tech industry from which we derive much of our content. Furthermore, the generals serve as good containment for the social media retards.

>>58906447
>I want the whole board to be generals.

>>>/Reddit/

>>58906018
I voted for all of them :^)

>>58907595
Or we could have a proper /prog/ramming board.

dumb, it'll sort itself out eventually

it always has

>>58909333
like /b/? I don't think so

>>58909481
where do you think this is

more maki/satania/weeb threads
less generals and stupid technology discussion, especially /v/eddit tier

>>58906018
Where the fuck is Steve jobs on the ballot?

Redo the poll, this is unacceptable.

Ban the use of the abbreviation "af"

>>58910329
Better yes have it filter to as fuck as well as "a f"

>>58906253
CSG is one of the best Generals on /g/ someone bought a domain for it, they have tons of loot infographics and ops are always well done

word/ban filter on pajeet/poo in loo/etc
the niggers that keep spamming those terms are racist pieces of shit

>>58910463
Hello Rajesh you run any good IRS scams lately?

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I side with most posters on the thread count. HOWEVER, for the love of Stallman, don't just set such a command and control rule such as "Only X threads on TOPIC allowed"...

A poster should check the catalogue to see if his subject matter is already covered in a thread. If it is, post there. If a anyone sees a thread, whose subject is already sdiscussed in a separate thread, this newer thread should be reported/deleted.

And finally, implement global rule 4 both for OPs and for posts.

4. You should always elaborate on your opinions 
rather than just spilling the soykaf.

E.g. pic related should be deleted instantly.

>>58906447
/gg/ when?

>>58905972
THIS THIS THIS

Ban all mac/iphone/ishit devices. This would actually be easy since all you do is examine the browser agent and ban anything that smells of Apple

Side note: does anything ever get actioned through these threads, or are they just a waste of time?

>>58906796
>Less whinging about Pajeets
>A general for certifications, getting IT jobs, etc, but only if people are going to post in it
>OP needs to kys

Nice try pajeet.

>>58905860
I agree with most of them but also:
>no thread about amd vs nvidia
>no threads about distro posting

>>58906073
Literally this. /g/ is floaded with this shit all the time.

>>58910329
ban your idiocy

>>58910463
fuck off pajeet

>>58911524
FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU

>>58905860
As much as everyone (especially mods/admins) against board split, /g/ could use a split to

-/g/ - Technology
-a consumer electronics board (phones, watches, portable media players etc)
-a computer customization board (hardware and sw wise customizations. Buttstation, desktops, homescreens, foobar skins etc.)

>>58905860
If we could just make a containment board or general for the gaymen manchilds it would be enough. they are the absolute surce of consumeirism garbadge that only cares about muh gpu, muh RGB "insert anything here" and muh "help i cant run muh gaymes"

>>58912746
I like the idea, there is a certain logic behind that solves many problems on both sides.

>>58912746
Good idea, but that would turn one fast board into three slow ones

>>58914592
That's not really a problem. An on-topic slow/medium speed board is not bad.

Also, /cc/ board could have extra features, like secondary file upload for a post for
-config/style file
-high resolution/uncompressed wallpaper

>Half the board is becoming generals, taking up space for potential threads.
Yes
>We can overcome this by placing a limit on the number of generals allowed at a time.
That's a terrible implementation though, and will be broken constantly. I suggest permanently moving some of them, for example /ptg/ to /t/, while keeping all the consumerist shit in one thread.
>Operating system war threads provide no actual content, and just end up being people throwing shit at each other. Ban them.
Discussion should be allowed, though obvious spam should be dealt with. "Install gentoo" wasn't funny the first time, and I have no idea why the GNU/linux copypasta isn't in the wordfilter yet.

And while your at it, permaban that pedophile with his shitty MacOS posts. His posts are NSFW and he brings no proper arguments forward.
>There are currently four threads about TempleOS and Terry Davis. We need to limit it to one at a time, or /tosg/.
Agreed
>Tech support threads still pop up every hour. Instead of helping people. we need to link them to /sqt/.
I still don't get why this has become so commonplace over the last few years. If you manage to find /g/ you should be tec-literate enough to troubleshoot yourself. If not, fuck off.
>The sticky doesn't contain enough information. If we also added infograpics like pic related, it could prevent unnecesarry posts.
It's like that for every board, but yes, it is an issue, but boils down to the fact that mods are to uncooperative. It has been proposed multiple times already, but they never give a response.

>>58915508
What about combining some generals, because some are about very specific things?

Is Cyanogen a good phone OS in general?
My current phone keeps restarting and crashing so I'm thinking about rooting it and sticking another OS on it.

>>58905860
Why there aren't rules on generals in the first place doesn't make much sense to me.

Why doesn't the administration outline rules for generals? Even a simple rule like "Don't make generals until they hit page 10" would keep the catalog a whole lot fresher.

We should also move /ptg/ to /t/, and we should move all the other "not technology" generals off as well.

>>58915611
Forgot to mention that we should move /fglt/ and /sqt/ to /wsr/.

>>58907630
I had no idea this cringey site existed

>>58915621
moving sqt solves nothing. Fags would still shit up /g/ with their WAT R BEST LABTOB FOR $200 NEEDS TO RUN HAT FORTRESS 2 AND MEMECRAFT threads. It's a containment thread we create so /g/ doesn't turn into pure distilled shit, because does-it-for-free-man doesn't/not allowed to mercilessly delete support garbage.

Ban Wintard and iphone threads and everything will be fine

kill the cancer watch thread.

>>58915574
There are certain topics that are very specific, talking about blatant consumerism is not and shouldn't be promoted nor tolerated.

If one where, for example, talking about smartphones in /spg/ on a place like /g/, I would expect people to be talking about price/performance ratio, compatibility with custom ROM's, if it has a SD slot, a removable battery or the fact that the bootloader is unlocked or not, NOT comparing the specs of obviously overpriced phones or talking about their looks.

I personally like how 8ch is doing it; there are 2 stickied threads: one for buying recommendations and one for support. Low quality "is X good?" threads are deleted.

Imo ban all discussions about linux or create a containment board for them called /pedo/.

They are behaving on this board like the members of a cult who cannot accept any other OS unless it's part of their cult.

Such behaviour is antithetical to an actual interest in technology, it's just sectarian worship which stifles real debate on technology.

>>58905860
>os guide.jpg (326 KB, 3000x2116)
>no
>do you just want to use your computer and have a good OS?
>mint

>Making shitty site to learn web dev stuff
>Add some pictures and group them in a class
>Apply 80px to the class's height
>Works fine
>Want to change size of image specifically
>Give image an ID
>Reference the ID
>Nothing changes
I fucking hate CSS.

>>58910462
Just cause it's well run doesn't mean it belongs here. Consumerism is cancer.

Why /ptg/ isn't on t yet?

Ban all the nu-/g/ Mac and Windows 10 users. Lifetime ban for shilling.

>>58905860
4chan needs a new /consumer/ board

>>58915621
>we should move /fglt/ and /sqt/ to /wsr/.
You don't even understand the purpose and origin of /fglt/.

>>58917555
Because is all porn there and not all of them like jav

>>58920298
But the board is literally about torrenting

>>58906299
>Should we also have an eBay thread too for getting good deals?

really, what is wrong with letting each other know what is the best bang for our buck?
>kek, that is basically what /tpg/ is now

point still stands. should we tell newcomers to go out and buy a walmart laptop that will last 2 years, or something that, without exaggeration, will last beyond a decade?


The only two things that /g/ needs to be rid of are the constant AMD vs. Intel threads (how can you fags talk about this every day?), and the smartphone general (like amd vs. intel, there is only a limited amount of discourse which can be had on this topic)

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happy valentines day! Or not

>>58907402
Because our board is slow as shit?

>>58923073
happy suicide day to you too