Is it me, or has the overall quality of posts on /g/ declined

>>62433367
What is this "quality" you're talking about?

I'm much newer to /g/, but I've noticed a discernable drop in quality since my earlier /g/ days.
4chan as a whole has gotten more shit, for sure, though.

when you stop telling people to adhere to individual board culture, guess what happens?
also you're part of the second stage of decline

Generals killed 4chan. Thanks for making /vg/ then leaving, faggot.

Flood of new people killing board culture.
Shitposts that aren't deleted.
Board rules that aren't followed.

>>62433367
It's good though. The more technically ignorant people like macfags and gaymers here, the more jobs for techies and more money. The only problem is ubiquitous pajeets.

>>62433539
No it isn't. Do you know how soul crushing it is to work in customer support? Or to develop shit and constantly have to alter your vision because people are too fucking retarded?
So shut the fuck up about opening tech up to normies being a good thing.

>>62433529

when did anybody ever follow board rules lol

>>62433508
This and banning desktop threads.

>>62433582
Tech board, not show me your wallpaper board

>>62433557
I think it's because in the early days computers were more a geek thing, now any kid with an iToy consider to share his insightful opinion about consumer electronics, they're flooding social media.

>>62433648
You stupid nigger, a desktop and a wallpaper aren't the same thing.

Desktop threads are about usability and creating the ultimate user experience, not about what picture is on the root window. kys yourself because you're the kind of person that didn't understand desktop threads in the first place and probably was half the reason they were banned.

>>62433508
>I want 10 different versions of the same thread at all times
>I like pretending desktop threads weren't a problem

generals helped manage boards that were already shit quality. 4chan was never good, and if it was it turned to shit way before generals.

>>62433720
There was no 4chan before 2004 you idort.

>>62433539
>>62433557
>>62433670
Having to work in tech support is your fault. Also ironic that you will bring up your shitty, smelly opinion on "normies" yet if it wasn't for them, you probably wouldn't have been able to get into it at all since a base model desktop in the 90s cost $3,000 and that's not adjusted for inflation. Also you were probably the "normies" who caused the similar shit meme of muhseptember wherein usenet turds can't cite what was so superior about it before. But it's okay, just have the same fucking thread where you pretend to be old and call everyone kid. Also just because you showed up first, doesn't give you the right to run the show. More normies online makes it even easier to sell them software. If you aren't doing this or selling them something, you're a fucking loser

>>62433730
Generals are inherently shit. Because they always lead to being tripfags circlejerks and nobody except their small circle will post in them.

>>62433720
I was reading 4chan during the oldfag period and made only one post about a japanese final fantasy commercial. Because of that limited interaction, I'm not a qualified oldfag. Everything after that I was "around" for.

>>62433755
>he wasn't there when 4chan was invite only

>>62433762
I'm not poor I don't care about technology costing more money as long as mentally ill poorfags (like you) stay out.

>>62433755
>Launched: October 1, 2003; 13 years ago

>>62433508
Pol killed it. Not generals. We had generals for years.

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>>62433803
Yes I'm mentally ill because I disagree with your bullshit. Big problem here is you haven't even listed yet how you're different from "the normies". all you do in these threads is just call everyone kid and normie because you've fucking failed hard and you are slowly realizing it and want to pine for a time you still had potential.

You're quite the same as the macfag on macrumors who said the same thing, wanting apple shit to be even more expensive because he just wanted it to be a made up exclusive club.

>>62433808
/pol/ is the reason i can't say nigger on /v/ anymore. after gaymergate /v/ turned into surveillance state.

>>62433808
>>62433853
>Muh /pol/ boogeyman
Reminder before /pol/ got infested with cancer it used to be great

>>62433836
Oh yes, it's bullshit because you disagree with it. How enlightened. I don't even get what you're rambling on about, autist rage I suppose, but keep that shit in /b/.

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>>62433367

Been on 4chan since early 2004. Technically earlier since I followed it from SomethingAwful when it went public and moot was using it as a way to store and share his hentai collection since he couldn't exactly use his house's primary computer. So in the earliest days unless you were in various catagorized hentai boards and shitty anime/manga translations 4chan was a shitfest.

But anyway, /g/ was initially for guro, basically sexualized gore manga. When it turned to /g/ this board was spammed with guro images quite often in protest and even afterwards no one really cared about it. It wasn't until techies from /b/ kept getting their threads about computer hardware deleted and told to gtfo and to post in /g/ that people started using it.

I mean, I think if anything this board has just become "softer in tone". What I mean is that before this place was for thick skinned people from /b/ who were desensitized to all the fucked up stuff the internet had to offer. Mix that with the fact the majority of the users at the time were angsty teenagers and you get a very blunt and somewhat hostile atmosphere where circlejerking was shunned. It was basically concentration of antisocial techies from an already antisocial /b/.

But to answer your question, arguing over intel vs amd has always been a /g/ thing. 4chans popularity is what softened the board like anything else that gets popular. Then again I mean /g/ as we know it wasn't even out until like 2005?

>>62433888
Cool cat and cool trips.

>>62433762
His salient point wrong. Normalfags and advertisers categorically ruined the internet. This happened way before 4chan though.

You're full of shit about desktops by the way. My first family mid-range HP computer cost more or less the same as they do now.

>>62433582
When desktop threads was banned then everything went to shit. Desktop threads were the main source of creativity and sharing knowledge on how to do interesting things with the desktops in particular, but the OS in general. This enthusiasm and creativity spread everywhere, but now it's just an advertisement platform for Indians on Microsoft's and Apple's payroll

allowing the rampant consumerism to thrive in /g/ has killed /g/. I don't know about other boards they have different problems.

>>62433888
>But to answer your question, arguing over intel vs amd has always been a /g/ thing.
The level of discourse in these threads is shit these days

>>62433866
literally doesn't matter

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How can we save /g/, anon-tachi?

>>62433729
Autism then

>>62433888
I notice the softer tone too. "Edgy" has kind of become a stealth reddit term for "stop being offensive". I've even noticed that on blue boards its not uncommon for someone to say "homophobe" unironically when being called a faggot. I think its probably the Redditization of the board but it might also be that high school kids are trained to content police themselves.

In a weird twist of irony 4chan used to be big on grammar. I'm really bad at spelling and grammar myself. But I remember a time when people got shit on for not capitalizing their sentences, spelling shit wrong, making pointless line breaks, and generally typing like a retard. Now its complete acceptable to be a phone poster.

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>>62433866
>Reminder before /pol/ got infested with cancer it used to be great.
Indeed.

>>62434058
>making pointless line breaks
It's called reddit spacing these days.

>>62434067
Remember that the "cancer" is Reddit and don't let them pretend that they aren't.

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>>62433971

Yeah, I agree. It's all just bad arguments and shit wit replies wrapped up as internet memes. I would've gone into all that but I felt my post was already a bit too long. But yeah, the softening I was refering affected all things including discourse. When I said circlejerking was sort of universally shunned on the board (as a sign that you were basically trying to gab your way out of an issue rather than addressing it) that is one of the aspects of it. Everyone here had enough of normie social etiquette so trying to digitally show your ass was always looked down upon. /g/'s image for a long time was thought of as akin to an old man with a dry sense of humor. I know that sounds retarded but it's how I seriously felt about the board in its early days.

>>62434067
heh, pol already doing another flip flop.

>>62434122
The board is swamped by those types, Say something they don't like and you get called a shill.

Blame Troid.

He banned people for posting hidden anime nipples on /a/ and he's been letting the cancer that is desktop/speccy/battlestation/etc on /g/ for a long time.

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>>62434058

lol I know exactly what you mean. I'm posting this from a phone and early 2000 online culture is the #1 reason I am so anal about my grammar online. One of the biggest ways to get shit on online was to be shit at typing and spelling lol. Pretty sure it was the antithesis to 1337 speak of the 90s once normies ruined that too. But yeah that's crazy you bring that up, I hadn't ever even thought of why I'm like this, even in texting friends/family.

>>62434183
>no generals

Ruined by the cucks from /SekritTorrentKlubGeneral/
(Seriously, we need /tg/ or something to contain that autism, mods here embrace it tho)

>>62434183
>no frogposters
god I miss those days

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>>62434271
That's because pepe was tolerable back then, it didn't get really cancerous till around 2014-2015ish with all that rare pepe faggotry

>>62433582
>>62433950
This. The ban on desktop threads was retarded.
I'm not even sure if it was an actual ban or just the new janitor deleting threads he doesn't like.

>>62434362
If there's a dedicated board for wallpapers, why shouldn't the desktop thread be on that board? Same reason why the private tracker general should be moved to /t/

>>62434183
>No generals
>Guy asking about hookah
Good times.

>>62434183
>bitcoiner thread
>"I'm a bit late to the party but"
Wonder how he made out

>>62433367
>I'm a newfag, only started using /g/ in 2012.

Uh. Nigger, I don't know how to literally break it to you but... you stop being a newfag after around 1 year of being around a board/4chan. I can't even... you're so hopeless you'd still be a newfag in 2035.

>>62434489
>Uh. Nigger, I don't know how to literally break it to you but... you stop being a newfag after around 1 year of being around a board/4chan. I can't even... you're so hopeless you'd still be a newfag in 2035.

Typical nu-/g/, doesn't understand what newfag means: >>62433720

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>>62434386
Because this is a technology board. People post wallpapers in /w/ (not necessarily desktop wallpapers), they do image editing, cropping, put renders in backgrounds, this kind of stuff.

They don't discuss linux, window managers, desktop environments, hackintosh, font rendering or anything more technical there. /g/'s desktop threads never were wallpaper sharing threads, there is no reason for them to be on /w/.

And the last, there is the cultural aspect. It was used to be on /g/, and /g/ users posted in it, not /w/ users. The janitor essentially killed the most active thread of this board.

>>62434183
I remember judging /g/ because they were tech illiterate consumerists. Look at /g/ now. I feel bad.

4chan should filter out any IP that has been on a Discord server.

>>62434489
>this is what summerfags actually believe

>>62434489
>literally
>i can't even
>1 year

6/10 made me mad

>>62434386
Because it's mostly about technology. You could go months without seeing a single wallpaper on the desktop threads.

>>62434512
I came to 4chan in 2006 and consider myself a newfag still

>>62434362
Bunch of fags kept making 3-4 threads every time the old one died and mods took out the entire general rather than banning the faggots

>>62434613
well you did fall for the pass jew

>>62434644
At least I'm not a literal indentured servant to Google, Anon.

>>62433367
I'm more or less in the same boat as you. This place used to be a lot more fun and interesting a few years ago. I'm not sure what to blame besides an influx of normalfags/redditors. A significant amount of posters around here aren't remotely tech literate.

>>62434478
I wrote on a forum somewhere that $10 was too high and that I might buy when it goes back to $1.

>>62434412
the headphone threads back then weren't much different in quality than the ones now, there's two of them there. There is the "no time for love" era desktop threads and the browser war proto general. Atleast none of them are on the front page.

>>62434523
All because a few assholes ruined it for everyone

I joined /g/ because of the horo threads and stayed because I secretly hope they'd come back.

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>>62433367
Yes. During his farewell, Q & A, Moot himself remarked on how quality has gone downhill since he started 4chan. He specifically said that posts have gotten shorter and that users were treating the site more like a chat room than a forum. If you ask me, this is entirely due to the influx of phoneposters. More than 50% of the messages on 4chan are made by a mobile device. Not only do phones make typing longer messages more difficult, but the average phone poster is likely to be of less intelligence than a desktop poster. Also, you can't make OC on a phone.

So, to sum it all up, niggertech ruins everything.

>>62434939
Take off the nostalgia goggles, it was always shit and always treated like a chatroom. Only now mobilefags and other cancer post trash because they want to be in the epic 4chan screencap

>>62434700
>I'm not sure what to blame besides an influx of normalfags/redditors.
The 2016 election killed this place, /pol/ bought way too much attention to the site.

>>62435252
The REAL normalfag influx started with all those top 10 videos about 4chan that started coming out back in 2014

>>62433740
God is not real tho

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>>62435419

Everyone on this board seems extremely angry. No one is able to disagree on something without throwing a stream of insults into their post

>>62435461
This site has mellowed out quite a bit compared to 10 years ago. /g/ used to be be serious fucking business at one point where you can get into a fight over a shopping list.

>>62433467
>when you stop telling people to adhere to individual board culture
Who told anyone to stop adhering?

I've said it before but I'll say it again the run up to Fermi's release was /g/'s apex, and the most consistent fun I've had on the internet ever.
/consumer electronics/ just is what it is now.

>>62433755
>ne's never posted on 4chan.net

>>62433729
And now we have screenfetch threads, which are better since most users unclude their entire desktop.

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this is how i remember /g/

also, fuck desktop threads

>>62435596
The catalog was a mistake

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>>62433720
>mfw I'm phoneposter-tier that's never been called out because I actually try to fit in.

Normies ruin everything.

>>62433367
Yeah, /g/ was one of the boards that lasted the longest and the quality wasn't that bad until about 2011. Rest of the site went to absolute shit circa 2007. Moot went full cuck, and then there was hiroshima nagasaki. Result: site became curated based on what will bring the most people over (for profit reason), such as by only allowing bait threads, marketers, etc. while killing all legitimate discussion.

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>>62433367
I've been here since 2007. It all went to shit when 4chan went mainstream and we got ourselves shitton of corporate shills and guerrilla marketers.

thanks luggage lad

>>62434080
No, reddit-spacing is when the fag types out two line breaks. I've actually seen that done, and that's when you know you've had enough to read for one day.

>>62434058
I wish we could go back to those days. I struggle to read pajeet-glish.

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>>62435433
kill yourself

>>62435496
For good fucking reasons you cancerous cuck. If there really was a god, he'd have struck you down long ago.

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>>62435596
Fuck, it looks like was so fun back then.
I wish I wasn't a dumb newfag who came here after the shills and redditards invaded 4chan as a whole.
Holy shit, now I want to kill myself.

Pretty much all of 4 Chan has. What I'm curious about is the fact that /g/ posts are riddled with misspelling recently.

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from 2012

Don't worry, techies have just turned into spineless script kiddies.

>>62435801
>Been here since like 2006
>See people like you recently
Better you than more redditards I'm so fuckin sick of their cringe ass autism.
They're socially awkward ONLINE.

It's been the same since 2006

>>62435596
no

>>62435596
desktop threads were one of the beginnings of cancer.

>>62435419
yes I fucking am
eat shit, shiteater

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>>62435801
dont kill yourself over a website

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>>62435856

This is something I have been noticing as well. With all things, including 4chan, the more prevalent something becomes and the more widely it is used the more watered down it has to become to appease the masses that now use it. When money is involved this is inevitable. With 4chan it is particularly bad as well, given that the whole point of this board is its users and so its users naturally guide what it becomes.

Leaving out the "pajeet meme", I have noticed a lot of programmers/coders looking at lower level languages as a sort of mythical beast that one day they'll tame but not now because... Have the days of cutting your teeth on C and Assembly passed? Have "enterprise level" languages REALLY become the norm, to the point that the majority of computer programmers have never manually debugged anything?

I thought this was going to be a problem when people started separating "programmer" and "software engineer" and even went so far as to say they do different things.

"Well yeah, a programmer is just a code monkey who makes less and does less. While I am a SOFTWARE ENGINEER, I DESIGN stuff, and know about FRAMEWORKS, and do a lot more MANAGERIAL TASKS and PAPERWORK."

It's like.. dude, a company pays you to work on software. I'm pretty sure even those "code monkeys" still plan out their code, still research answers to problems, still use reference books, still use stack overflow and have Jon Skeet come by to tell you why the popcorn you ate last night is more related to the kernel your computer uses than the answer is to the question you are asking.

Maybe I'm just being a cynical prick, but the whole industry seems to have fallen to the MBAs.

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oldfag thread amirite

What's with the faggot trend of looking back o was so better fuck off its 2017 not 1920 things change faggots

>>62433367
O yeah things were much better when we had those forty gorillion bitcoin litecoin fotm coin ITS AHPPENENING threads per day

>>62433729
>>>/w/
>>>/wg/
Is where those threads belong, it says so in their stickies. Fuck off

>>62434523
>>They don't discuss linux, window managers, desktop environments, hackintosh, font rendering or anything more technical there. /g/'s desktop threads never were wallpaper sharing threads, there is no reason for them to be on /w/.
You could always start the discussion, teach others or even fuck off to /r/unixporn for circlejerking over configs and trendy anime.>>62434583

>>62436097
prime example of the classic phone poster ruining our board

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Post em
For old time's sake

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It was always shit. Always was, always will be. This place is like a zoo where all the animals ever do is fight about stupid shit no one actually cares about.

4chan doesn't degrade or improve over time. Quality of posts do not rise or fall over long periods of time. They rise and fall over short periods which then normalize.

There has never been an instance in which any board positively changed quality, excluding new boards that haven't reached a month or two yet. The only exception to this was those couple of years on /hc/ when literally every post made on that board was computer generated.

The word newfag was originally coined because during the last week of May/first week of June 2006, the population of the board probably more than doubled (rate of posting sure did). People were not called newfags because they were new, they were called newfags because it was obvious that they were new. It doesn't have anything to do with actual amount of time you spent on the site, it has to do with how poorly you understand how the site works.

The last half of 2006 was positively the worst time to ever be on 4chan. You had to browse only /d/ to be unaffected or something. Nothing you have ever seen this site produce was as bad. Even this eventually normalized.

>>62436392
>10-1 years later
>Linux is still not desktop of the year
Kek

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>>62433367
You've gotten older and 4chan has gotten younger.

Things change.

I haven't been on 4chan a crazy amount of time, only since 2011. When I first started browsing I'd always see posts bitching about how 4chan was dying. For me, /sp/ was the funnest shit on earth and so was /int/. They're both completely different now.

I'm 24 now. I feel sort of old and I don't know why I'm still using this site. I barely even enjoy it anymore. I just cling onto hope that things will go back to the way they were when I first got here, but they won't.

>decline the last 5 years

Some would point to Chanology for the decline, I would say this site was doomed as soon as that Fox News report aired.

>>62436392
Wow, back when you could have fun without accusing everyone of being a shill

>>62435978
>megaupload links
fuck clapistan

>>62434067
/pol/ was shit even when it was still /new/. The only difference is that they didn't leak out

>>62436530

They leaked into /v/ all the time. Never saw them on /g/ or other boards.

>>62436551
/v/ was always trash, it was one of the first boards to get janitors for a reason. So naturally having no mods and unskilled janitors anyone could post anything on /v/

>>62434523
>>62434386
>>62434362
>>62433582
banning desktop threds helped tremendously
too bad they let generals flood in like the circling jerking cucks that inhabited desktop threads weren't just going to spam those instead.

desktop threads are just a bunch of pedo spam by worthless sacks of shit who should die in a fire anyways. even the relentless spam from advertisers and poojeets aren't as bad as you children loving pedo shit sacks

>>62436573
Ben is not your average desktop thread

>>62433720
i used o have the other image where the oldfag trollface was reversed.
how ironic considering the "cancer" troll face was the trollface long before the newfag one was ever around.
literally the only thing besides pokemon/cp i remember on /b when i briefly browsed back in 04

>>62436561

/v/ wasn't trash at first, it just never had mods. moot didn't give a shit about /v/ and all the mods were hand-picked, like-minded people. You could report all of the shitposts and the mods would ignore it.

Meanwhile, if any rule on /a/ was broken at the same time, the mods would immediately rush in and delete it. You had to be some retarded 13 year old like Lanced Jack who had all the free time in the world to -just- shitpost in order to get through.

There was no "reason" /v/ became shit. moot just let it happen. Fast forward to '08 and he would literally say that /v/ was great because of all the /b/ shit going on in it. He never paid attention to the board until that.

>>62433755
>>62433791
>>62433807
>>62435585
even then this was just a ripoff of chinese chan forums which people were posting on before 03 even

>>62436573
anime website

>>62433508
/v/ would have probably turned into /vg/ regardless. Literally had to get to the 2nd page just to get non general threads.

>>62436666

I think he's trying to say something like that the 100 Mass Effect thread marathon was fucking stupid and shouldn't have existed. There weren't named generals at that point, people just kept making a new Mass Effect thread when the old one died and would talk about nothing. They finally stopped once they got to the 100 mark.

It's one thing when people are talking about Starcraft non-stop. It's another when they're not, but still doing it in the Starcraft general.

>>62433367
Like many good things, smartphones killed it
Look at the phoneposters on this site
Look at all the pajeets that have come out of the woodwork to discuss their shitdroids

Never thought I'd say this but circlejerks are the best things to come from 4chan

>>62436591
You desktop cucks know this guy? Can you just tell him to please fuck off and end his life already?

just add fucking ids, kill samefags and marketeers in only one shot

>>62433367
>quality of posts on /g/ declined significantly over the last 5 years
>I'm a newfag, only started using /g/ in 2012

Well maybe if you jumped off the nearest bridge the place would be cool again.

I'm an oldfag, I've been here all summer

>>62433367

... quality?

>>62436063
>I have noticed a lot of programmers/coders looking at lower level languages as a sort of mythical beast that one day they'll tame but not now because... Have the days of cutting your teeth on C and Assembly passed? Have "enterprise level" languages REALLY become the norm, to the point that the majority of computer programmers have never manually debugged anything?

There's an inflated sense of how difficult programming is. There's this big poser element in silicon valley that I believe is bleeding into computer science and I think kids that come to /g/ are buying into into it. JavaScript devs call themselves "code artisans" on Twatter. They base their entire self worth off working with a framework made so some shit a 3rd world monkey can do add to the repo for pennis on the dollar.

This is one reason new kids need to actually read the SICP meme and actually understand how programs work. It's not a big fucking mystery. I legit saw a thread last week where anon asked /g/ if he should take an javascript code camp for 2000 dollars.

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>>62433529
/v/ used to be even more full of porn than it is now and it was great. But now its normal to call someone a "degenerate anime poster" these faggots obviously weren't here in 4ch's hayday.

Also, was browsing a ylyl thread on /wsg/ the other day, somebody posts the making coloured crystals webm. Of 12 replies, 8 of them were either complaining about how "thats fucked up" or "that kills people why would you post this" while only 4 people didnt care or were here long enough to understand.

How does it feel to know that 2/3+ of this site is normalfags now?

>>62434489
Summer is over. go back to school, kid. You don't seem to know the rules around here.

>>62440492
>There's an inflated sense of how difficult programming is.

Programming is ideally suited to one very specific neurotype.

>>62433720
im reddit but i knew what it was been there a few times since cancer just didnt like how it looked so i left

>>62433720
I started posting here since the reddit era, but I've been aware of 4chan since the cancer era. I wish I hadn't been an underage and a pussy for all of those years

>>62434058
stfu u fucking whiny faggot bitch

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>>62433367
Quality has been significantly improving since I have been here!

>>62434324
for the love of god, i hope that pic is ironic.

>>62434067
am I the only one who noticed the influx of boomers on /pol/?
not oldfags, I mean actual old people

>>62435623
The catalog was a godsend because I didn't have to open several pages at once, then refresh them occasionally to find new threads. But it was a mistake as it made it easier for newfags to shit up 4chan. Popularity is what eventually killed 4chan. And nobody lurks moar anymore.

>>62443377
assuming they're not just retards larping as boomers, the cause of it may be 4chan gaining some notoriety in mainstream media during the 2016 election.

>>62433720
I'm a phoneposting cancer I suppose

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All of 4chan is shit and you're all niggers

>>62443526
I don't think I can ever recover from this

>>62435419
prove it

>>62443526
Post nudes.

>>62443570
Jews exist.

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>>62443583
no

Reddit came

>>62443593
There are good and bad jews.
The bad jews are here to test your virtue.

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with people like these as our mods, there's not much you can do to take out the garbage

smartphone ruined 4chan and the internet as a whole actually

>>62443628
I will pay.
Please

>>62443658
>mods
>people
Yeah...

Seems like no matter the topic, threads turn to racism. I see it on other boards as well, even /ck.

>>62443470
>the cause of it may be 4chan gaining some notoriety in mainstream media during the 2016 election
sucks and I'm betting a lot of it is thanks to reddit
there needs to be a purge soon or this site will look like facebook some day

>>62433367
>quality, except for some quality stories like the 4 big centipede guy
>4chan
that being said the quality definitely decreased due to phone posters to some degree

>>62433950
>Desktop threads were the main source of creativity and sharing knowledge
'no'

>>62435729
What's wrong with


Reddit spacing?

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>>62433720
What I always find ironic about this image is that I joined around the 2012/2013 stage, but pretty much learned everything about reddit through here, and had little idea what it was before. I didn't even know how to navigate the site, but it's been a boogeyman so long, and brought up so often that eventually you learn about it. Stuff like the Tom Hardy QA for example.

These days I even find myself browsing reddit, but mostly just for sport news, not for discussion

>>62435841
I don't /g/'s opinion has changed much.

>>62445985
*don't think

>>62433367
>Is it me, or has the overall quality of posts on /g/ declined significantly since I got here?
Hmm.

>>62434058
>In a weird twist of irony 4chan used to be big on grammar
I thought I remembered this. It's one of the things I used to like actually. Unfortunately I'm guilty of phonespeak these days too, it's more an attempt to fit with the times I guess.
I don't really see people being offended too often, other than maybe on boards like /co/ but even then, it's either baiting, or it's because it's /co/, which isn't called /co/mblr for nothing

We used to have more interesting threads when I started posting here in 2010. Now we have a fuckload of generals and we only discuss consumer electronics.

I think /csg/ is pretty cool in concept but I don't post in it, the one time I tried buying cheap shit from aliexpress the payment got declined

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>>62433720
>tfw qualified cancer