Are you fucking kidding me

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>>29796459
>/MLP/
Anyway, what's with the butthurt for CYOA's? I can understand those dumb and specific generals, but what's so bad about those?

>>29796471
Just the amount of them and they feel like the could have easily been a greentext most of the time

Not like there is much else.

>>29796471
The fact that they encourage human content to be offloaded onto our community.

You konw? The thing that destroyed 99% of our creative potential?

Yeah, don't go wondering why we try to break free of our chains.

>>29796459
Because no one truly care for the show itself just the characters within in the show.

This is what happens when you get a board dedicated exclusively to a single fucking show

reap what you sow

>"Hey this is fun, lets keep it going."

Can't do much about it.

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>>29796650
Just make the threads you want and shitting yourselves over the rest of the board.

>>29796655
>AIE General #1118
There needs to be a point where you stop

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>>29796459
>Ban The Generals General #1873
This is my jam.

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>>29796459
Since that faggot mod killed quests on /tg/ people had to move somewhere

>>29796655
Are you seriously im-fucking-plying that we do this for fun? We do this because we need to.

>>29796703
It's like 3 people per general desperately trying to keep it alive. The worst offenders are the writefag prompts .Some of them have discords too so that only furthered the splitting

>>29796459
>What the fuck do you need so many fucking writing prompts, coyas and generals that focus on a single original the character

>A board close to seven years old based around a single tv show
>blue board which forces explicit material to be shared through text
Gee anon you tell me

>>29797102
So what's you're saying is...

/mlp/ should have been a red board all along

>>29797113

And combined with /pol/ to scare away all the normalfags... yes....

>>29797117
>And combined with /pol/ to scare away all the normalfags

Ok for the red board, Ok to bring back Milkyway, prompts and tulpas in a pre-Scruffening-like era, But please no /pol/. /mlp/ is already a place that scares normies and ponies are not for politics.

>>29796569
>The thing that destroyed 99% of our creative potential?
>he says, complaining about people making content he doesn't like
Really kickstarts the ol' grey matter.

>>29797113
I could write a fucking bible on the number of things wrong with this godforsaken board. But as usual mods are a bunch of fuckwits who do nothing for the welfare of it's users.
If mods did their job properly we wouldn't be having literal world war 3 happening right now because some devs tried to be le funny and shoot themselves in the foot

>>29797129
>Waves and waves of greentext is good content
Hurr Durr hurrrrrrr

this is an entire board for one tv show that's not even airing at the moment

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>>29797139
And when the show's airing it becomes a magical wonderland right?
Don't kid yourself

>>29797117
/mlpol/ was just the catalyst that drove /mlp/ and /pol/ to understand how fucking shit their boards were
If the mods did their motherfucking job properly for literally one fucking microsecond we wouldn't be in this juvenile Reddit-tier shitposting mess that is now affecting MY /mlp/ which is now flooded with fuckass edgy facebook frogs and that fucking Aryanne bitchfuck

>>29797145
It adds like three-six threads that's worth more than fanfiction I tell you that.

Pokemon board only thrives slightly better because of video games. We have comics and we still argue over canonity whereas /vp/ has made peace with accepting separate continuities.

>>29797155
Fuck you , shit taste having anon , aryanne is GOAT.

>>29797145
not him but non general threads do show up outside of hiatuses, show discussion in general just became more scarse because after so many years there isn't much to discuss, and with the writers shitting on world building its hard to discuss the lore

>>29797136
>stop liking what I don't like

>>29797175
Pretty much why in hiatus some of the regulars tend to get the fuck away from /mlp/ because it's either sexfiction or reiterating what already is lore in a children's show. The movie casting and the Hasbro cons at least provide something new to the table but all in all I feel like we've reached the year where we can go back to /co/ without spam or ease (ignoring the autist for a moment) but there's enough culture in /mlp/ to rival /vg/.

>>29797166
people complain about generals but /vp/ shows what our board would be like without them, say whatever you want but one useful thing they do is burying shitposting in a few minutes (note that i am saying minutes, not seconds), on /vp/ every shitposting thread hits bump limit because people are bored and they stick around page one for longer

>>29796459
Yeah, it's pretty bad. But it's not too hard to make it at least bearable with couple of subject filters...

/(thread |#|№)[1-9][0-9]/i
/(thread |#|№)[1-9][0-9][0-9]/i
/general/i
/cyoa/i

takes care of most shit, then you only need few for the couple generals that slip through.

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>>29797179
Greentext, once something I did like, now just becomes tedious and repetitive which is a shame because there are some good ones out there but I only know about them because of cap threads. Generals aren't exactly a bee hive of originality once they reach more than ten threads.

>>29797155
>If the mods did their motherfucking job properly for literally one fucking microsecond we wouldn't be in this juvenile Reddit-tier shitposting mess that is now affecting MY /mlp/ which is now flooded with fuckass edgy facebook frogs and that fucking Aryanne bitchfuck

THIS with all of my heart

>>29797140
so go to 4+4chan if you like it so much

>>29797183
i think we find our ways to produce content, even if the board is much slower now, i think people rely on fanfics because they still want to enjoy the show but the source material alone isn't doing the trick (or because its hiatus and people want something to do on the meantime while they wait)

AFAIK the pony hateboner became less fucked up lately (i've noticed much less butthurt save from the same three shitty boards) but this board has way too much culture to just fuse with /co/, they would get triggered by our traditions and try to contain us to a single thread like their subcommunities, which wouldn't work well at all specially now that we are getting some new people from the /pol/ merge

>>29797184
Generals are like the orc burrows in WC3. When things are quiet and there's not much left to harvest, you just put the little weak orcs in and wait for something new to happen. Pokemon has a wide variety of things to wait for. MLP only has the show. The comics were more miss than hit so there's not much hype for those. Toys and merch are a one-off thing which we have plush generals and toys whenever a new one is announced and released but they're just one or three things in a 90 thread board.

>>29797188
i do the same for the catalog when i want to find a non general thread

>>29797200
Mostly because the hate is either mild furry hate or looking out for that VPN autist.

The only way we actually communicate outside is through 4CC, or with filenames referencing ponies. The former isn't effective because 4CC isn't allowed outside of /vg/ or /mlp/.

>>29797200
>which wouldn't work well at all specially now that we are getting some new people from the /pol/ merge

As long if they keep their inner /pol/ hidden.
They will be BTFO once they political idiocy will starts to spread without control. I don't think /mlp/ alone will stand politics for much time.

>>29797201
>Pokemon has a wide variety of things to wait for
I disagree, /vp/ suffers from lack of content because even with the games there is a point where discussion ends, the two months after the release of a new game are interesting, after that its back to waifu shit and complaining about smogon with the occasional generation wars

>>29797211
well isn't it slower than us too?

That helps.

>>29797208
You're underestimating how much /mlp/ and /pol/ overlap . Seriously feels weird that so many people don't know about mlp and pols long history together before the temporary merger

>>29797199
Fuck you
I want 4chan to be purged of this fucking alt-right crap
All these years thinking I was using /mlp/ in good company, turns out I was browsing with a bunch of nazi /pol/ack fuckwits who don't give a single fucking fuck about the show and would rather post their DANK MEMES LMAO and their porn and their frogs and their swastikas and talk about overthrowing (((them)))

And here I am just trying to enjoy a show and maybe post some green and discuss ponies
but no
it's all gotta be DUDE POLITICS LMAO and DUDE BRUMPF BRAISE GEK DUDE WATCH ME TROLL THIS LEFTIST KEK LMAO HURP DURP

seriously fuck all of you who have an inkling of sympathy for those /pol/ack holier-than-thou oxygen bandits

>>29797221
Dude, what the fuck, what's wrong with pony porn?

>>29797208
>As long if they keep their inner /pol/ hidden.
Any crossposter who doesn't adapt to the new board is fucking cancer by default, we always had a big amount of /pol/fags here so hopefully those guys will follow the wave
>I don't think /mlp/ alone will stand politics for much time.
Remember that after us /pol/ is the board that suffers the most from false flag, /mlpol/ showed that there is at least a small amount of people sane and capable of understanding boundaries, but since politics causes such a hateboner with comics, cartoons and vidya its often used as ammo by shitposters who pretend to be "le alt-right fuck off cuck smugpepe.png here is a ms paint comic", what i am trying to say is that everything that is happening now is temporary and with good chances of not being organized

>>29797221
It's culture vs topic relation. /mlp/ has had pollacks in the beginning. It would be better if MLP discussions were back in /co/ because when the time comes when a zebra gets an episode it would be all memes and spam and whatever.

>>29797221

You're confusing /pol/'s Redditors with the actual neo-Nazis and quality abnormal posters

>>29797226
overrated, we now have two boards to post pony porn and here we can just post links. People make a big deal out of blue board /mlp/ when in reality before the scruffening it was just porn dumps vs greentext.

>29797221
Bait.jpg.gif.mp4.flv.webm.(you)

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>>29797234
And now it's just greentext , so we're down by one medium of expression

>>29797237
not really in terms of "we" since now we have 180 threads to make a porn thread of. Just not in the one called "/mlp/".

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>>29797232
OH BOY

LOOK AT ALL THIS QUALITY POSTING

I'M DROWNING IN ALL OF THIS OC

WOW

>>29797242
Why not have it all here is my point. Why do they have to go through the pain in the ass of locating a hidden board to wade through shitty diaper threads and hyperinflation generals to find some mediocre MLP porn dump. What if they wanna do a nsfw drawthread around MLP ?

>>29797221
you just fell for the false flag anon, congrats

/pol/ crossposters can't be noticed because they do nothing to stand out in the first place (unless you ask them to), otherwise we would have pajeet shitposting here because of the /g/fags

>>29797247
And yet that shitty 2 days of combination churned out more oc then this place has in a week

>>29797247

Just proves how much of a normalfag you are, you just don't get it and probably never will.

Places like Reddit or Facebook are probably more your style.

>>29797221
I'm >>29797199 (You)
And ironically I totally agree with you in every point except the pony porn, which is life for me

>>29797248
Culture. Mooty and Hiro never cared too much in the first place for us. We just have that one mod who stickes episodes while the higher ups don't care one bit what we think or what board the ponies would be better in.

Worst part is we've developed a sense of elitism from bronies!=horsefuckers to denouncing anyone who isn't a pollack.

>>29797136
>Stop making this content I don't like!
>Wow, why are people not making content?
>I know, let me blame other people that are making content!
>Me am smart! Hurr Durr hurrrrrrr!
God, you fags are retarded.

>>29797258
Quality isn't the same as quantity, and sometimes the sex prompts are pretty much the same with each other with a different pony flavor. Human x ponies and such, devolving into getting into their butts. Repeat for like 3-5 years of the board's lifetime.

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>>29797250
>you just fell for the false flag
Yeah, don't let reality get in your way.

>>29797261
>quality is objective and my opinions are facts

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>>29796459
>I don't understand hiatus-tier /mlp/

What about fanfic generals? The long running ones?

>>29797258
You're a fucking idiot . It's not the lack of content that's the main issue you stupid fucking monkey, it's the splitting into shitty generals that drag on and on.
You know what generals do? They lock people in, they're like mini commitments . Then you get a drawfag in and they start marking art, writefag do their thing and kt looks nice for a while, and then people start putting up trips, getting popular and eventually , without fucking fail every single time it leads to in fighting , and someone's feefees get hurt because they decided to give themselves a name and a face and end up either getting driven away or have their circle jerk fans drive someone else away. And that was before discords became a factor

>>29797267
applies to you too senpai.

>>29797270
A couple of them died, but I only noticed the EG ones vs the AiE clones because there's lesser of the former.

>>29797262
Yes anon, /mlpol/ was all over the website when it happened, do you think there aren't random people on random boards who would miss the chance of shitting up the board while pretending to be /mlpol/? I am not going as far as deny the chance of /pol/ being partially blamed for this but i refuse to believe the blame goes for them alone

>>29797273
So you're just jealous.

I'm just glad you guys are arguing, to be honest. :^)

Things are too dull during the hiatus

>>29797284
Meta threads are refreshing because they're usually once a month, as compared to a general that pops up and caters to 20 people and slowly less and less that the IP goes up because of phone bumping.

>>29797278
God, even the frogposters are less stupid than you. Do you really believe that there's some kind of plot against the Fair And Noble People Of /pol/? Is Hillary herself trying to make us hate your board shitting on ours, Anon? Or is it the CIA? I don't really give a fuck about politics, much the less about your delusions, so I can't remember which was your hottest meme lately. But if the 'true' people of /pol/ are like you, you all should be gassed.

>>29797280
I don't understand what leaps you had to make to get there. Ultimately generals turn to shit. They stagnate and drive people away . But y'all can have fun being married to your shitty generals. I'll enjoy being a hot thread renegade , jumping on fresh new threads for fun times before moving on to the new hotness , like God intended

>>29797293
>jumping on fresh new threads for fun times before moving on to the new hotness
And don't forget "starting the General Hate General every week"

>>29797292
It's /pol/. They're always paranoid. Sometimes they're right, sometimes they point their fingers too much.

>>29797292
No, i believe there are people who like to do dumb shit for a laugh even if that means ruining things for everybody else, i would have done the same if it was two boards i didn't liked or cared about

>>29797292
Spoken like a true /pol/lack.

>>29797273
>You know what generals do? They lock people in,
Your point is irrelevant to mine, of course, since I was arguing against a person who wanted to blame people creating content featuring humans for why there's a lack of content.
The irony being that he (or you) is most likely one of the people who throw a fit every time a pony/human (especially human) prompt appears on the catalog outside of a general that would better suit it.

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>>29797314
Check who you responded to negro, it's been me the whole time and never once had I ever even hinted to being annoyed of anon based content . Stop projecting and construct and actually argument besides "lol u just mad tho"

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>>29797252
It's a meter on how much oc a board can make, not on how high is the quality of that said board.

I'm not found in recognizing hate symbols, ironical or not, associated with my beloved colored horses of love and tolerance. Like many others. So i cannot say that that OC is something that i like or recognize. Good OC is subjective, so can't be considered a meter to descrive the quality of a board.

Many people invested too many emotions on them and I hope nobody will use the "muh emotions be a real man" argument with me now, because if there is something that is universally true is that WE ARE FUCKING IN LOVE WITH THEM, and it's a real thing, and please don't be an hypocrite too, this is something there for all to see. We are struggling to accept they are not real. We don't eat and sleep sometimes because of them. Be honest with yourself, you know that this is true. We have created a culture around this, we are bound together by this. This is our identity.
This is true even for /mlpol/ goers who came from here. That is why i'm not saying that you all must die, i see you as the brothers who just don't share my opinions on many subjects. but PLEASE keep the political affairs out of /mlp/. DO IT FOR THEM.

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>>29797325
100% this.

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>>29797325
>Please keep blank out
The immediate response is no and fuck you. You don't get to decide what content is or isn't OK. Aside from porn, if it's pony , it belongs , and if you can't handle it go find refuge in someplace more willing to suppress artistic liberty for the sake of protecting some random jackoffs senses. Like it or not you have Nazi ponies and they aren't going anywhere .

>>29797325

Literal definition of a normalfag trying to define what "normal" is for a board culture

>>29797337
>Please keep blank out
>Returning the argument with "please keep out"
Your stupidity cannot be quantified

>>29797337
Don't mind nazi ponies, it's more on neo nazi discussion like how in /co/ it always devolves into SJWs vs /pol/ arguing over whitewashing, feminism, jews or race changing (mostly in Marvel threads). If it will affect episode discussion in the sense that it's less for hilarity and more for FUCKING JEWS KEEP PUTTING _________ IN SHOWS, then it will be annoying.

Otherwise, Aryan is just another one of /mlp/'s OC qtpatooties.

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>>29796459
If you hate CYOAs you can always make a pledge to Hiro or the mods of /qst/ to allow them, but thanks to the based rule 15 any pony content has to stay here, including pony Quests.

I mean, I won't stop you.

>>29797323
>never once had I ever even hinted to being annoyed of anon based content
And?

>The fact that they encourage human content to be offloaded onto our community.
>You konw? The thing that destroyed 99% of our creative potential?
This was what I was responding to.
You really are a retard.

>"lol u just mad tho"
You're pissed people are making content/doing things you don't like.
U mad, bro.

>>29797350
No, he's not mad, he's just a fucking retard.

>>29797350
Then respond to the people you're actually responding to dummy. Why the fuck are you responding to me with an argument for someone else?

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>>29797348
>/qa/
>listening to our problems

Might as well use 4chan's feedback feature

>>29797361
I never said go to /qa/ m8, either the chatroom or the feedback yes. Or directly to the quest general in /qst/

>>29797365
IRC's the best way and I don't mean that in a good way.

Feedback is full of cobwebs.

>>29797348
>If you hate CYOAs you can always make a pledge to Hiro or the mods of /qst/ to allow them
>thanks to the based rule 15 any pony content has to stay here, including pony Quests.
the irony here being - In the light of these few days, many have realized 4chan would operate better under a smaller set of rules without GR15 than with it. But sadly that will never happen, because if these last few days have shown us anything, it's that making exceptions to that rule sends 4chan into a disarray of raids and spam.
Every single time

>>29797337
that is the kind of speech that will divide us, joke aside.

Noone is argumenting against your freedom of expression, but MLP is for pony, in the same way many of you think that Western is for the Westerners.
Politics don't belong to MLP.
This is not /mlpol/ this is /mlp/.

>>29797339
There is something that can be cosnidered normal for the imageboard culture inside the image board culture. You will not start a "Which one is the best Gem" on /a/, as you'll never start a discussion about "What is the best color for my Mustang" on /v/. So you'll not start a "Natsoc general" on /mlp/. Don't cry and shout "censorship" if mod will start to ban your /pol/thread on /mlp/. you should have expected.

Don't exploit my words to push your agenda to have /mlpol/ back. I pointed at something that it's true.
I will not help you to have /mlpol/ back, i don't like /pol/ and i don't feel sympathy for them, but i don't want to gas them.
Find a place where you can have your /mlpol/, just leave /pol/ outside /mlp/

>>29797383
>I will not help you to have /mlpol/ back, i don't like /pol/ and i don't feel sympathy for them, but i don't want to gas them. Find a place where you can have your /mlpol/, just leave /pol/ outside /mlp/
thank you

>>29797360
>Why the fuck are you responding to me with an argument for someone else?
Since you're going there.

>It's not the lack of content that's the main issue
Why the fuck did you respond to my post with a post that had nothing to do with the point I was arguing, you piss guzzling retard?
Hint: It's because you're not all that bright.
Fuck off.

>>29797383
You're making things gray and that's a dangerous game anon. So what are you saying ? Let's go on hypothetical here.
Can we have greentext about anon starting a pseudo Nazi regime in ponyville and how that all plays out? Can we have discussions on how the show tackles real life political equivalents like that bison appleoosa episode ? Where does it end for you, where's your arbitrary line ?

>>29797383
How about we remove text entirely and only post pony images? That is what "pony" is for you, right? Because any text behind the image is going to have some kind of message behind it, political or not, discussion or not. Having a full fledged /mlp/ board is a nonsense and in those seven years we are finally experiencing the drought.

>>29797403
>I have a whole board to post my paranoid shits, but if I can't post them here, you shouldn't be able to talk about the ponies either!
That's why I do want to gas you, human garbage.

>>29797388
Because you responded to ME like I was the one who said the conflicting viewpoint of wanting more content unless it's a specific type . You're the retard who assumed I was the same anon because apparently in your mind there couldn't possibly be two anons arguing against your obviously superior point of view .

>>29796459
i told moot to delete /mlp/ but he didn't listen

>>29796459
Ban Generals General is my favourite general.

>>29796459
>tfw people on this board are so desperate for pony content, even if it's shit.

>>29797414
It's not really a general because it appears only once instead of prolonging it till it turns into a trash.

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>>29797426
Right, cause it's not trash from the very beginning.

>>29797437
Entertainment at the start, then it becomes a joke in a movie that you keep repeating until it wears off.

>>29797394
This is a matter on how one can see the border between /mlp/-related stuff or being full /pol/hack.
It's something that belongs to everyone common sense and maturity.

but i can give you a protip on my opinion on the subject

>a bunch of nazi /pol/ack fuckwits who don't give a single fucking fuck about the show and would rather post their DANK MEMES LMAO and their porn and their frogs and their swastikas and talk about overthrowing (((them)))

This anon was right. Again my opinion.

On the long run the board nauseated by what it will be percieved as "too political" will build its immunitary system against it and they will make you know. But If the political thing will go too far expect a complete aversion against everything that is political on /mlp/.
As SJWs did with the PC culture, this may happen here on a small scale with /pol/.

Why some anons think that everyone must love /mlpol/?
Why are they forcing politics, especially far-right politics, down everyone mouth?

Weren't /pol/ the reaction against forced culture and morality?
So /pol/ is entitled of a free-pass when they act in the same way as the people they fight?

>>29797403
loaded question and dramaticism. Don't like /mlp/ as it is? Go away.

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>>29797325
>We are struggling to accept they are not real. We don't eat and sleep sometimes because of them. Be honest with yourself, you know that this is true. We have created a culture around this, we are bound together by this. This is our identity.
Dude, no. I watch the show, it's cute, I like talking about it with Anons, and it's a good chunk of my wanking material. But it's just that: a hobby. When you start trying to wrap up your entire identity or lifestyle around it, you're more akin to furries than horsefuckers.

>>29796459
That's why we need /mlpol/ back

The generals on this board tend to bother me a lot less than generals on most other boards.
Most of our generals only get posted in when a writefag updates or when they're about to fall off the board. So it's not like they clutter up page 1 much.

That might also be one of the reasons CYOA's are disliked more, they have a higher post rate and are constantly on the front page as a result.

>>29797459
>confusing individual identity with board identity.

>>29797456
Not an argument.

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you got it all wrong, guys
/mlpol/ was in fact "my leftist pol"

>>29797470
just like your

>>29797448
>Why some anons think that everyone must love /mlpol/?
Wasn't my argument so I don't care to respond . This isn't about mlpol, hell this wasn't even about politics , it's just about the fact that everything has a general which just works to divide the board .
>Why are they forcing politics, especially far-right politics, down everyone mouth?
Also not the argument , but aside from that , the risk of things going full /pol/ should not warrant a ban on everything politically related. Simple as that , it's allowed in spite of the risk because that's how it should be.
Stop bringing /pol/ into this and stop trying to decide what is or isn't OK to discuss in the context of my little pony .

>>29797475
>>29797476
My argument was basically this.

>>29796459
On the one hand, I understand the problems that generals bring and why you're frustrated.
On the other, I also understand why generals are made and why people stay within them, and I don't blame them for it.

>>29797412
>Because you responded to M
This is you, right?
>Waves and waves of greentext is good content

So, basically, you still responded to the point I was arguing against... with a point that had nothing to with what I was arguing?
Wew.

>>29797476
>hey guise i dont give a fuck about the show pls tell me whats ok to discuss here so i can have my cryptopol shit here without getting banned xdddd
1. Find a bridge.
2. Move the bridge over a field of cactus.
3. Walk up the bridge.
4. Jump off it.

>>29797476
>the risk of things going full /pol/ should not warrant a ban on everything politically related. Simple as that ,


Agree, that is why i said that it's a matter of maturity.

>Stop bringing /pol/ into this and stop trying to decide what is or isn't OK to discuss in the context of my little pony .

This because you replied to a post was replying to a discussion about /pol/. Stop trying to decide what i have to discuss about.

>stop trying to decide what is or isn't OK

But i'm not doing it, it's the title MY LITTLE PONY, who decide what belongs to this board and what not.

I fear that you are just nutpicking concepts from my posts.

>>29797480
So why he was able to express it and you not?

>>29797499

I don't get why normalfags get so upset about Aryanne or horse nazis

Should I make the Major General again?
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/29469095/

first one was kind a joke, and just to see the reaction, and I didn't make another one since not many people seemed to care.

>>29797508
Fuck, i dint see that was a questionable pic, my pony folders are all messed up due to the merger.

>>29797493
>I don't give a fuck about the show
You are implying so god dam hard it hurts. Once again you're drawing the false conclusion that I want another /pol/
Reread the OP and construct a better argument or brain yourself

>>29797325
>I'm not found in recognizing hate symbols, ironical or not, associated with my beloved colored horses of love and tolerance
this combined with the stock image makes me doubt someone actually from here typed this. either that or very new and needs to fuck off pronto. reddit has a pony place if you don't want to adapt to /mlp/.

>>29797325
>beloved colored horses of love and tolerance
Consider suicide. Anybody who uses this phrase unironically should leave to ponychan and stay there, maybe even reddit or tumblr.

>>29797499
The discussion isn't about pol is my point , it's about the current state of /mlp/ . I only responded because I have no idea why you wanna keep talking about pol and keeping it out when that isn't the argument being originally presented. If your belief really is the same as what I just wrote then fine, I guess we're having trouble establishing our points but I just wanna stress that this isn't about /pol/ in any way. Also captcha can suck my fat ass

>>29797519
>le edgy nazi meme symbol XD

fuck off

>>29797507
because in their mind nazi=ultimate boogeyman, evil
It's like classical conditioning. They were always taught that swastika etc should be hated, despised, excluded so now they react with having a stroke and maximum butthurt

I just come here for Applejack threads and Princess Applejack

What does that make me?

>>29797532
A nitpick but it's called the iron Cross. No bully the buddah

>>29797525
ok, so i think that a discussion will be pointless at this point.
By the way thank you for trying.

>>29797533
An applefag mostly. Is there enough of you to warrant an apple thread every day? Maybe
Is there enough of you to warrant a write prompt general for a princess version of your horse ? I have trouble believing it .

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>>29797533
A respectful gentleman with a superior pick in waifus.

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>>29797533
Applefag

nothing unusual, just MEDIOCRE taste

>>29796690
>in a world with to many generals
>one man has to face them all and free /mlp/ from it's scourge
>anon is a simple man but dedicated to solve this once and for all
>so he makes his cheeto dust covered fingers dance on his keyboard, this wicked scene is the beginning of his eternal fight
>the first thread is postet
>"you fookin cunts i'll shank y'all general spamming niggers"
>other people trie to make our hero give way for the glory of the Generals but he will none of it
>he posts once more
>but only to be greeted with an indefinet ban for all boards

>the end ?

>>29797539
>>29797540
>>29797545
Neat

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>>29797533

>when your waifu is so mediocre you have to turn her into an alicorn to make her interesting

Poor, poor Applefags

>>29797550
inb4 generalfags start writefag greentext prompts to make fun of people who complain about generals and general hate general becomes a thing proving a point that they're shit

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>>29797550

>>29797532
>It's like classical conditioning. They were always taught that swastika etc should be hated, despised, excluded so now they react with having a stroke and maximum butthurt

Oh wow /pol/ is hard in this one.
It's not a hate symbol, no matter if nazis killed million of people right? That symbol don't represent hate and death to all those who did not get that second level of dreaming that you call redpill, right? Only /pol/ knows the truth right? So delusional.
Symbols represents a meaning, and for the majority of the people nowadays it represent hate. Period.
Many anons are getting tired of the /pol/ hypocrisy, /pol/ wants to shove their "memes" and "ironic hate speech" down everyone's mouth. Even they got too far in the imageboard culture. Just like SJWs with tumblr, and everything else.
And no sorry, i'm not a communist so the fact that they killed many more people doesn't work with me. They both must fuck off from this world.

>>29797381
It's not making exceptions to this rule that makes these things happening.

>>29796700
>>>/qst/

>>29797581
There's a guy in this fucking thread saying that all the /pol/shitposts that have been flooding the board for the last days are false-flag posting. They reality simply doesn't exist for them.

>>29797581
>>29797581
just shut the fuck up you nigger loving cunt holy fucking shit
just go back to tumblr you fucking snowflake

>>29797581
I like the Nazi symbol cause it looks cool. Not as cool as the SS tats though . Nazi hats are neato too. Does that make me a Nazi? Nien, it makes me a cool things liker

>>29797595
and I agree with that guy. So?

>>29797603
Dogfucking damo, is that you?

>>29797581

That's assuming the Holocaust happened on the scale they claim they did. Another offensive, abnormal position to take.

It is interesting that Holocaust denial is illegal in a ways; if it were 100% true wouldn't it be a simple matter to disprove these claims?

Can we call Nazi ponies neighzis?

>>29797608
It means that you not only ignore reality, you also have dissociative identity disorder. Not much of a surprise, actually.

>>29797581
There you have it.
I wasn't talking about this not being a symbol of warcrimes etc.
I was talking about overreaction it gets. You should start looking at things without getting so emotional about it. Representing hate or not, you should look at things without being so upset.
besides
>is on hate machine site for neckbeards who masturbate to cartoons
>is fucking sperging when sees something
This applies everywhere, how to spot a newfag/normalfag? When something that they don't understand or like gets posted they freak out. Ponies, swastikas, edgy opinions from all political spectrum, liking something else. If you cannot handle people thinking and acting differently here then it's not a place for you.

>>29797605
Liking the nazis aesthetic doesn't make you a Nazi I like their uniform too[/spolier]. But this doesn't change the fact that their symbology nowadays represent hate for the consensous, and for all the good reasons.

>>29797610
n-no?

>>29797614
>That's assuming the Holocaust happened on the scale they claim they did

Thais just a woo. /pol/ is laughable when they call theirselves "rational" sometimes.

>Another offensive,

offensive to who? a regime who died more than 60 years ago?

>abnormal position to take.

The consensus among the 90% of the accademics can't be considered abnormal.

>It is interesting that Holocaust denial is illegal in a ways

It's illegal to promote it, not to study it. Don't act like a special snowflakes who is crying because "muh freedom of speech". Nobody is trying to jail you if you want to go deep into the subject.

>>29797621
>how to spot a newfag/normalfag? When something that they don't understand or like gets posted they freak out

So, something like this?
>>29797523
>Consider suicide. Anybody who uses this phrase unironically should leave

>>29797641

It's offensive to you clearly, normalfag.

>strawman
>appeal to authority
>misconstruing the argument

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You fucking mongs are getting off topic again, fuck , FUCK, THIS IS ABOUT GENERALS AND SHIT FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKING HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE YOUUUUUUUUUUU AAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL

>>29797621
>he decide what is overreaction and what is not
>muh glacy no emotional men meme
>le hate machine meme

When you'll grow up? Is not 2006 anymore!

I see the same emotional reaction in /pol/ when they talk about races, gays and niggers, and when governement make laws to defend them.

So please don't use the emotional thesis to defend the "hate machine of the chon" because you are basically saying that 4chan is only one person that deserves a free pass on emotions only pro bono sua.

>>29796569
>The fact that they encourage human content to be offloaded onto our community.
>When talking about CYOAs
Do you even know what a CYOA is?

And do you know that almost every CYOA is about ponies, and not humans?

>>29797654
so the fact that makes no sense for the death count of jews to be revisited offense me?
You are not even aware of what are you talking about.

>>29797677
I was being sarcastic with that hate machine mong.
Are you new to the internet? There will always be stuff that offends somebody. First thing you need to learn is to ignore such things. And stop projecting your thoughts about /pol/ because this is not what I was talking about. Swastika was just an example how people overreact to edgy stuff on the internet, when in fact it can easily be ignored. Calm down faggot

>>29797699
>don't know how to reply
>tell other people that they are newfags

that is how a newfag acts

>And stop projecting your thoughts about /pol/ because this is not what I was talking about

who use Swastika on 4chan? Who spam it everywhere? please don't be so naive

>when in fact it can easily be ignored

right, used to be easy to ignore. Now is everywhere, and someone is pushing it into everyone's mouth. That is why people are starting to make parallelism between /pol/ and the SJWs.

If they were a little less noisy and integralists with their idea, nobody would have cared.

>>29797711

Stop using reddit spacing, lad

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>>29797711
>>29797740
He got you on that one


STOP DERAILING MY THREAD REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>29797740
>literally triggered by formatting
wew lad

>>29797746
No, this is a Zootopia thread now.

>>29797740
>don't share his opinion, he must be from reddit

Where do you think reddit has borrowed it?

>>29797711
It was a rhetorical question faggot, stop taking everything so personally. Or are you trying to say that you shouldn't build a thicker skin when visiting here?
There are no swastika spams anywhere aside from edgy memes. Also it's quickly deleted and banned from boards beside /pol/
I lurk many boards and I've yet to see all that spam and "pushing it into everyone's mouth".
It is really easy to avoid stuff and ignore, stop getting so upset simply because somebody disagrees with you.
That being said don't you think that generals/cyoa's are much more visible on /mlp/ than edgy posting?
Or let's assume that you are right about all that swastika spam everywhere and think about opposite situation, how would you react? I think we should let people post whatever is legal and slightly moderate it according to the board's main topic.

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>>29796459
You don't like it?

Fuck off

>>29797564
would be some serious irony there

>>29797755
>It was a rhetorical question faggot, stop taking everything so personally. Or are you trying to say that you shouldn't build a thicker skin when visiting here?


Yet this doesn't mean that everything is fine and cannot be discussed or criticized when they get too far.
Having a hard skin without being more mature in the way you express your ideas is an end by itself.
and sorry but those who cannot stand this place, generally leave. I care for it and i fight for it. Like many people here.

>>29797740
How do you know it?

>>29797740
and the fun thing is that he's right

For a long time now, there has been a myth of "neo-/mlp/", that is, a means for haters of the show or bandwagoners who have since jumped ship to try and shame those who still enjoy the pony

But, I think there truly is a "neo-/mlp/", but it isn't that....it's a /mlp/ where fandom fans and self righteous and largely useless generals dominate the board, rendering it useless for any actual pony discussion or interaction outside of circle jerks in little pockets

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>>29797826
yeah well FUCK THAT, i'm taking back my home board, fuck generals!.... You know, unless its like a episode discussion containment channel when the new mlp comes out... or a draw thread, those are ok. COYA can stay too i guess. EVERYTHING ELSE FUCKS OFF THOUGH, KILL EM ALL 100,367,539 DEAD GENERALS

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>>29797838
BORN TO DIE
BOARD IS FUCK
100,367,539,410 DEAD GENERALS

>>29797755
>you shouldn't build a thicker skin when visiting here?

only 12yo edgy kids like to have an "hard skin" without being critical on things

>>29797838
this

death to useless generals!

>>29796459
The show is on hiatus right now, what else did you expect? Just filter it if you don't want to see it.

>>29796459

Hold your horses, OP. You can all talk about how much Season 7 sucks soon.

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>>29797852
>>29797838
these

EVERYONE GET IN HERE!
TODAY, WE LAY WASTE TO ALL THE USELESS GENERALS!

>>29797881
Less than two weeks! I can't wait to talk about how much the show sucks again!

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>>29797838
>>29797852
>>29797908
I'm with you all, fuck the over abundance of generals that have taken over and turned the board into little more than personal chatrooms for tiny micro sections of the board

It's largely the main reason this board is so shit now, no other board I know of allows this many generals to run rampant with no real reason

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>Generalfags this is your mindset
>Die generalfags
Nice thread, Lee.

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>>29796459
>Meta threads

This board is literally dead because of attention whores wanting their own small safe spaces

Bumping a thread that matters

>>29799809
What evil mean general are you trying to bump off the catalog this time, junior?

>>29798055
Meta discourse is the only way for boards to improve, which is exactly what Hiro told us to do around one year ago.

>>29799836
Shouldn't you be licking ass on /qa/, knight

>>29799839
You mean Hiro's ass? Don't think that's necessary: https://twitter.com/hiroyuki_ni/status/849351413293604865

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how come my thread still up. Im sure it would have been gone by now is this how threads work here? They just exist perpetually ?
>>29799836
I dont wanna see this become "mlp meta general # 87 : FILLIES... IN... SPAAAAAACE edition"
We've got enough useless generals

>>29800189
>is this how threads work here?
1. /r/4chan might see it and want to mine some (you)'s from it, so they'll bump or samefag it until something happens
2. see above

Ban human content.

Kill all human threads.

Let ponies roam free once again.

Pointless/indulgent generals need to be killed
This board needs actual moderation

>>29800221
Does anon count as human? Cause all i see this removing is EQG related threads

>>29797221
porn is nice
other than that you're right

#Make/co/TakeEQG

>>29800256
They wont, the same way /v/ or /vg/ wont take Them's fighting herds

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>>29796459
Hiatus.

It will get better in a couple of weeks.

>>29797102
>>29797113
I was ambivalent to the idea of making /mlp/ red, but honestly, the fairly laid-back experience of /mlpol/ turned things around for me. At this point I'd happily welcome a red /mlp/, so long as we can hammer out some kind of caveats to keep the catalogue from being flooded with /d/ and /guro/-tier thumbnails.

>>29800316
There was a >strawpoll in the last big meta thread. I think about 70 % wanted /mlp/ red.

>>29796459
Neo/mlp/ likes generals.
neo/mlp/ also likes mobile posting alot.

>>29797581
It's actually an edgy variant of the Indian symbol of good fortune. I'm not kidding. Look it up. In one direction it means 'good for me', in the other 'good for everyone else'.

The hammer-and-sickle is connected to communism, which killed over 100 million people. Every symbol can have bad connotations.

>>29797711
They spam swastikas everywhere. We spam ponies everywhere. Everyone else hates us for it.
Stop reddit-formaing and you're good.

>>29800221
While I hate EqG as much as the next guy, I'm not sure removing content is a step toward having a more active board. And besides, literally the first non-moot thread on /mlp/ was a humanised thread, so they've been here since the start.

>>29800432
The problem is that all the memers, fad-chasers, and fair-weather ponyfags have jumped ship, so that only the hardcore horsefuckers in their ongoing serial generals remain. We need new blood, new content, and maybe we need to let our /trash/ clopper friends come in from the cold.

Neo-/mlp/ is skeletal /mlp/. We stayed on the ride so long that we became Mr. Bones.

>>29800316
no it will not get better
it never gets better
people like you say this for years and it is not getting better
the only thing that happens is a handful of threads that are not shitty generals


i too would quite approve of a red /mlp/

>>29800466
I fear oldfags jumped ship as well as new blood not being expöicitely trained into our culture.

>>29797117
>/pol/ has a normalfag problem
>/mlp/ has a normalfag problem
>Somehow combining these two places with each other will solve both of their normalfag problems
How about we stop being dishonest with ourselves and just accept that "normalfag chemo" bullshit isn't true. Posting porn and nazis may scare away the most sensitive faggots, but I'm pretty sure any regular shitposter will be too busy shitposting for (You)s to care and any other normalfag willing to stay will likely just get acclimated to the environment anyway. Which to be honest is preferable to us constantly hemorrhaging users losing interest.

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>>29800535
>preferable
I WOULD RATHER DIE THEN HAVE THOSE NORMIE SONS OF BITCHES IN MY /mlp/ !!!

>>29800535
We combine the numbers of old(er) 4channers to combat the numbers of newfags. More eyes and voices are stronger.

>>29800535
As an addendum, yes the faggots that want /mlpol/ back so they can fuck off to there are part of the users hemorrhaging off due to their lack of interest. Fucking off to another board isn't solving anything, it's just running away and ignoring the issue.

I explained this in a separate thread, but empty bumping is against the rules. I've sat through a few threads reporting empty contentless bumps and they always got deleted. But I'm just one person. We need to work together to get bump generals off the board.

>>29800552
>>29800554
No you dumb faggots, being isolationist is only going to contribute to the slow death of the board. We need fresh blood if we're going to continue having decent traffic. Look how (supposedly) all the people new to pony from /pol/ got along with /mlp/. New people aren't inherently bad, but new people who don't learn are the issue.
We just need to encourage newfags to lurk more and learn how to participate in the culture.

>>29800572
Yeah but then we get overly sensitive fagonies who stir up drama.

>>29800572
Did you read what I wrote? (>>29800554). I agree with you.

>>29800572

I wish they would just ban mobile posters from the entirety of 4chan

>>29800535
We saw it with our own eyes. It did solve the problem.

>>29800636
you mean by solve the problem, make shitposting a board priority?
it didnt solve anything.
youre just trying to rationalize your wanting of /mlpol/ back here honestly.
it isnt coming back.

>>29800653
Shitposting is an immune response for our two boards. However, as seen with AIDS, immune responses can be hijacked. Shitposting pony on /pol/ drives the shills and redditors away, shitposting friendship windmill drives the kids out.

Should /mlpol/ not come back we'll make it come back.

>>29800590
Sorry, I must have misread that.

>>29800598
I one hundred percent agree with this.

>>29800653
>you mean by solve the problem, make shitposting a board priority?
This was my biggest issue with people wanting /mlpol/ back. It was mostly just shitposting, on a board that was intended for shitposting, on the day dedicated to shitposting. I can't agree that flooding a board with shitposting solves anything other than making all you mostly see shitposting. Which, sure, it's not shilling or newfags.

This has been an ongoing issue with /mlp/ for a while. A lot of people just want /b/ with ponies. I disagree with this because then we get a bunch of off-topic shit that just happens to have a pony image.

>>29800680
Shitposting is shitposting. It's inherently low-quality. And there is little evidence to suggest any of it actually "scares" away anybody. Of course you aren't going to see many "reddit" or "shill" threads when the index/catalog is constantly sliding with shitposting. Coupled with there being no timer on posting just made endless shitposting more prevalent.

>>29800653
>make shitposting a board priority
>>29800701
>a board that was intended for shitposting
Just like /mlp/. No wonder we loved it. But the board only existed for two days, it would likely have settled down with time and the development of board culture.

>>29800701
We all saw and felt the evidence.

>>29800701
Finally somebody who understands.
>>29800680
>we'll make it come back
Lol
So you just wanna shitpost with ponies all day and post memes?
Can we take a page from /a/ and understand they not only shitpost, but post actual content relating to any anime.
>>29800722
>/mlp/ is a board for shitposting
how long have you been here really?
in the beginning there was show discussion man. there wasnt shitposting galore, and when there was it was great because it always involved the show.
>>29800732
>evidence
of what?
that shitposting makes normal cancers grow and spread faster and with more strength than regular cancers?

Lets pretend they made /mlp/ a red board....
How long till we get daily /STRIPED/ threads?

>>29800752
>in the beginning there was show discussion man. there wasnt shitposting galore, and when there was it was great because it always involved the show.
Because the show itself was still new and the fandom was large and active enough that there was plenty to discuss. That's no longer the case until new episodes are on. During the hiatus, shitposting goes through the roof. Have you seen the board over the last couple months?

>>29800863
You can already do that on, /trash/ you astounding cuck faggot

>>29800876
i mean. im in a thread that's supposed to be about hating generals.
the only reason ive seen this extreme of a decline is actually not because >hiatus
but because everybody has started to whine about >muh mulpol
thats within a few days though.
As far as decline because of hiatus...
lets see what /tv/ does when theres hiatus then?
>some shitposting followed by threads full of fan content
if youre the same guy talking about killing generals, that invalidates more than half the actual posts here.
>>29800884
hello /pol/itician
this is a nice thread, please refrain from name calling!
or if you are going to continue rudeposting then leave stupid rudeposter!
nah but seriously, lay off the cuck calling yeah? it isnt a term used around here all the time, we just call each other faggots and such :^)

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>>29800960
>implying I'm from /pol/
>implying I need to censor myself when those mongoloids can't make a post without screeching 'shill!' or 'redditor!'

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>>29796459
this is why /mlpol/ was so hevenly

>>29800960
>lets see what /tv/ does when theres hiatus then?
Which shows are you talking about? Is it a show that has been around for just a few seasons? Like how /mlp/ used to get tons of fan content in its earlier seasons? It still does, of course, but the amount has reduced quite a bit. Being an entire board dedicated to a single show also helps go through discussion and fan content much faster.
And no, I don't want to kill generals. I don't care for most of them, but I just hide those threads because I wouldn't open them anyway.

>>29801032
The thing is the lack of content isnt a universal thing. The community is still, as we speak, pumping out content. This is an issue about why /mlp/ itself is becoming stagnant

>>29800996
>baiting that hard
i got teeth of gold anon, i cant bite too much now
inb4 you're trying to get me to break my gold teeth to steal them goyim
>>29801032
I mean as in shows they genuinely loved, like wanderover, GF, hell almost any good cartoon you can name had huge hiatus and they all did the same thing
As far as the board lacking new content, theres always new content. In fact the amount of images posted on derpibooru per day has actually gone up last i checked, which is proof of more content being created, like >>29801045
said. basically banning the general would be like getting rid of 'stagnant' threads, but they would also get rid of any new oc, or the possibility of new oc made by /mlp/ really. it's a two way street sadly.

FANDOM FANS NEED TO BE SLAUGHTERED

>>29801111
Nothing prompted this statement.

>>29801123
And yet i agree with it

>>29801045
>This is an issue about why /mlp/ itself is becoming stagnant
I think the usserbase has diminished, which is a factor. Also, just about every aspect of the show has been talked about from every angle, so there's less to discuss without just repeating the same arguments, leading to stagnation of discussion. So the void gets filled with green or art, but as creatives move on to other interests (Pokemon, Overwatch, Undertale, SU, etc), the amount of original content will also stagnate. There are still some around, but unfortunately not as many as there used to be.

>>29801123
Every single thing prompted it

>>29801188
>I think the usserbase has diminished, which is a factor. Also, just about every aspect of the show has been talked about from every angle, so there's less to discuss without just repeating the same arguments, leading to stagnation of discussion.
That doesn't matter, not in the slightest.

Look at /co/ , people come up with creative threads, and still a lot of threads are repeated constantly, but sometimes they offer new perspectives and discussions nonetheless

Why? Because /co/ doesn't allow fucking twelve hundred generals to sponge up the userbase, generals are practically outlawed unless needed

This board needs to be ran a little more like that to allow the board to breathe and to force people to not confine themselves to a single thread they ENDLESSLY bump no matter if its a good thread or not

Moot was against generals, in general, this was for a good reason....generals when allowed to get out of control goes against the very way these type of image boards work

>>29796459
I understand where you're coming from, but what do you think will happen if those generals were to disappear? You think the stories and greentext would just stop, and everything would be perfect? No, the +100 posts of greentext contained in those generals are now all their own individual thread. This only one general. Now apply this same idea to all the generals + CYOAs.

>>29801226
>Look at /co/
I do, it's my other home board. But of those threads that are still rife with creative material for a show, the show tends to only have a few seasons, so it's still new. There's still things to discuss that haven't been brought up yet. And they tend to only have one thread at a time (a general) so unless you were interested in it, there are plenty of other subjects you could discuss, because /co/ isn't just for one show, but covers two entire forms of media. And there isn't typically a lot of discussion for shows during their hiatus unless it's in its earlier seasons. Look at Venture Bros as an example. Almost universally loved on /co/ but there's rarely if ever a thread on it unless it's currently airing. In /mlp/, it's all pony all the time so discussion happens on a wider scale and it gets easier for the pool of subjects to be exhausted. It's been nearly seven years, we've had a lot of time and a lot of threads.

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>>29796459
I count 76 recurring threads and CYOAs, so that means over half the threads on the board are some type of CYOA, general, or otherwise repeating thread. 78 if you count the Waifu Wars thread and the episode ranking thread.
I know they're all theoretically content producing general threads, and the 74 or 72 slots left are still able to be filled with whatever, but I didn't think we had that many now. This is craziness.

When did it spiral out of control like this? I feel like it's been slowly growing and I just haven't noticed cause I'm looking from the inside.

>>29801505
Everything suddenly needs its own general
Nightly twilight, glimmer, applejack, PRINCESS applejack, or whatever other pony all get their own little image spam general. Multiple basic writing prompts get their own general, Anon in equestia, anon in equestria but married, anon in eqestria but cheating, anon in equestria but pirates. Its insane

>>29801579
Sad part to me is that I'm not actually sure if it's even a problem. It feels like it should be, but I can't be sure. /mlp/ is mostly made up of just this generation of the show, and we only get so much source content at a time.
What would the empty slots freed up if there were less generals even be filled by since we're so parched on a constant basis as far as official content goes?

>>29801617
I just don't know why some of these threads just end up as a thread for one greentext. Motherfucker its not a novel. If it goes over 10 posts make a pastebin or a fimfiction account.

>>29801649
The author wants exposure and/or the Anons in the thread want more and feel the thread is a good way to keep the author motivated? Maybe they don't know what thread to fit into and are too afraid to ask and adapt to an established thread?

>>29801649
Often that's what happens. The author posts the story, and at the end a link to a pastebin or a FimFiction page and that's that. But then others in the thread just won't stop with the "moar?" or "so youre writing a sequel, right?" or "wheres the writefag?" and it continues until someone forgets to bump it off page 10 or they migrate to a different thread that's more active. Then a new prompt will start the cycle all over again.

>>29801671
They can always consider suicide

>>29801579
>Nightly twilight, glimmer, applejack, PRINCESS applejack, or whatever other pony all get their own little image spam general.
Aside from Princess Applejack because it's a greentext thread, there is literally nothing wrong with having regular character threads regardless if they just end up as imagedumps. It's the My Little Pony board, where the fuck else are they going to take threads about My Little Pony characters? Jesus, some of these anti-generalfags should lighten up with their zealotry.

>>29801339
You have it backwards. Generals shouldn't be for when something has too little discussion, it should be for when something has too much discussion.

There is literally no reason for a general on this board other than maybe one or two that are "tradition" at this point like the faggy mlpg (whish is utterly useless and stupid, but they'd never have the balls to get rid of it now) and generals for new episodes

The point isn't that generals don't have creative material, it's that that material is limited to specific threads....there is absolutely no reason a board that's all about one show needs to have micro containment threads, no need at all, there is no need for most of the generals here and the board would be better off without them and have more people posting in different threads if they weren't ALLOWED to stagnate in their own little watering holes that are often just bumps, bumps, and more bumps

>>29801892
I disagree with a few things here:

>generals for new episodes
A general, by definition, is a regularly occurring thread. I don't think episode stickies or discussion threads that follow could be considered more than spontaneous discussion.

>there is absolutely no reason a board that's all about one show needs to have micro containment threads
Except in the cases where users frequently tell others to "go back to x threads" for posting material they don't like, such as:
>EqG/humanized
>Batpony
>Various fetishy images
As such, the general(lel) attitude of the board largely contributes to the necessity of having "containment" threads.

>bumps, bumps, and more bumps
As I mentioned much earlier in the thread, contentless bumping is in fact against the rules. I also suggested we come together as a community to start enforcing it better, however the issue is most of the board's users would rather just filter and hide generals than spend any time lurking them. As such, they are unlikely to assist in any such endeavor.

>>29801892
>Generals shouldn't be for when something has too little discussion, it should be for when something has too much discussion
It was never my intent to imply otherwise. But it makes more sense on a board like /co/ where people get annoyed when a single subject takes over the board with multiple threads. I don't know if you were around for it, but when The Last Airbender was airing, particularly starting with season 2, /co/ sort of became /atla/ given how many threads there were. The same thing has been happening to a lesser extent recently with Samurai Jack.
But that's because /co/ is for various subjects. For a board like /mlp/, people want to organize the different subjects based on a single show into threads of their own. I don't think that's for any reason other than people just like to keep things orderly. The only other board with a subject this specific would be /vp/, and I can't comment on how things are done there because I don't frequent the board and haven't played Pokemon in years. But the way threads are organized here can be useful to some degree, since if I'm not interested in a subject, I can just hide the thread. You seem to think that is the wrong way to do things, since it essentially segregates the board's population, but I don't think forcing them into threads with no specific topic would do much besides have them arguing over everything and nothing.
I do agree that the generals that are nothing but bumps and the same pictures that were posted in the previous thread serve no purpose and should just be left to die. There was an Octavia general recently that lasted for about a month and that's all it was, aside from fewer than 10 posts from a new green author.

>>29802065
The issue i have is that a lot of these threads could be easily combined . Plane/moth/bat pony threads could easily exist in the strange waifu general. Same goes for the 10 different anon in equestria write prompts

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>>29801953
>Except in the cases where users frequently tell others to "go back to x threads" for posting material they don't like, such as:
>>EqG/humanized
I'm sorry but that's stupid. EQG should not be contained to any generals just because some fandom fans don't like it. It exists, it's part of the MLP franchise, deal with it

>>29802483
Tell that to the fags REEEEEE'ing about it

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>mfw I actually prefer generals over having to sift through a constant torrent of shitposting
generals are top /comfy/ bros, you can pull up a few threads of interest on your phone and check in on them throughout the day

>>29802833
>comfy
you mean slow and boring anon. Go back to image dumping luna in your LUNA GENERAL #53 : Comfy luna edition

>>29802833
Fuck phone fags, you're not real members of this board or this site

First april was the most fun I had in a long while, I'd give anything to discuss the movie and season 7 with /pol/acks.

>>29803422
What the fuck is this phonefags meme? Its like this boards version of Shareblue or something?

>>29800432
Ban mobileposting.

>>29805494
Phone posters are, nine times out of ten, underage shitposters that treat this board like /b/. Even though there are few exceptions, like most memes, there's no longer any thought put into separating the good from the bad, and most people disregard a thread based solely on the image name without looking at the content.

I can't blame people for not wanting to waste their time on what is most likely bullshit, but there has to be limits on how dismissive you can be. >>29803422 for instance is something no one with a functioning brain should say, and so is most likely an underage shitposter himself parroting memes because he thinks it's cool.

It's one of those things you just need to use your own judgement on.

>>29796471
Anon in equestria is the most autistic shit in the entire world