What happened to this board? It's all generals threads now,

>>30100141
It's been six years, the band-wagoners left.

>>30100141
We're not allowed to make fun threads now since the mods banned porn, ass worship, the milk mare, and prompts

>>30100141
I'm going to cut off your arms and legs and eat them slowly.

>>30100155

Now that's more like the /mlp/ I remember.


>>30100146
>>30100151

So that's it, it's fucking dead? Nothing but Generals and newfags everywhere?

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>>30100141
It's the fucking generals pushing away all the interesting content. Of course people are going to leave when they look at the state of the front page

Also everything is apparently role-playing, so enjoy your ban

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>>30100179

I want to cum inside Rainbow Dash, Twice.

>>30100169
Yes, run while you still can
Everyone here gobbles down every nugget of shit that Hasbro pulls out of its ass like Twilicorn and EqG

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>>30100187

Jesus Christ, I can't believe the golden age of Pone is over. It's like leaving paradise and coming back to a fucking wasteland.


I guess time waits for no one, shit...

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>>30100191

Patachu tried to warn us, and it's happening since a while.
God I miss having him in our drawfag circlejerk.

>>30100141>>30100187
>>30100191
Welp I'm still going to be around till the last day so when that day comes it better be fucking great

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Scruffening happened.

>>30100141
Mods fucked up, forget porn, we don't need that here anyway we have fucking /trash/ and regardless of memes there ISN'T enough pony porn being made on a fast enough basis to warrant any actual discussion

But no, mods did fuck up by banning anything that isn't a general or show discussion, mainly because they were too lazy to justify the difference between funposting and true shitposting, I honestly don't think the mods for this board are even users/fans of the board, they seem to be just random assholes

>>30100462
>I honestly don't think the mods for this board are even users/fans of the board
They're not. They aren't even ponyfags for god's sake. Remember the IRC chat leaks from 2014 or so? How much they complained about us?

>>30100141
Mods decided they would ban entertaining threads because HURR DURR IT WILL STOP THE SHITPOSTING

It didn't. It just made the entire board stale. But hey, at least we have fucking glimposting now.

>>30100141
Mods happened and generals were the only thing left

Wait until "New Movie"

>>30100141
The mods came and now the board is filled with shitty generals. Out to all the things they banned, the one problem they could have solved, they didn't ban generals.

>inb4 hurr durr generals make all the content
No, they overstay their time by far and stay on bump life support for eternity without new content.

>>30100518
The generals on bump life support problem should have been addressed before start banning everything.

>>30100443
This, even with all the shitposting it spawned the board never really recovered.

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Scruffening #1.

Then this dumbass got a magical hateboner for candyass and stopped any kind of fun thread = we can only discuss the show and have generals.
Sealed the coffin.

I believe around a third of the persons on this board are still from 2011-13, another third are from after the first scruffening and the last third is simple shitposters like glimposters, cuckshed Anon, dickvore Anon and season 1 fags etc.

What's been banned that if allowed to return would make this board better ?

>>30100141
Ban and kill all greentexters.
That should fix the problem.

>>30100146
>the only quality posters were just the people tagging along for the fad

That doesn't make sense.

>>30100646
stop this retarded 'prompt = roleplay' nonsense.
See >>30098017 this thread.
The guy nailed what's happening.

>>30100646
Porn.

>>30100646
Writing prompts, perhaps porn as well.

>>30100649
Then where are we to go to find short kitschy stories?

>>30100650
He's referring more to how the board is dead than how the board is shit. Bandwagoners were shit, but they did make /mlp/ seem more active.

>>30100646
PROMPTS

>>30100187
Did you enjoy killing the fandom with your petty hatred?

>>30100646
Also, make this kinda shit a bannable offense.
>>30100649
>>30100187
Any kind of forced glimposting and permaban anyone saying that anything past season 1 isn't canon.

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>>30100650
There were never quality posters, what you see is what you get. The board barely changed, it a mirror reflection of the current seasons of the show.

>>30100141
Clearly, we need more hate and discontent.
Yes, hate and discontent fix everything.

>muh nostalgia

>>30100723
>not having nostalgiaboner for 2011
Because the good times are over and we're in denial.

>>30100184
mouth and ass?

>>30100696
That's not true, you utter MORON. This board has changed drastically, forget from when it was first formed, it's changed drastically from around S4 to now

Many people have left because of it, the rules of the board have changed, the threads allowed to exist here have changed. You know nothing.

>>30100696
Well we should be getting an upturn considering 7 is actually on-track.

>>30100763
Sure it's not friend, it's not like I have been browsing it from the very start and can speak from experience.
>>30100770
Hopefully the movie is good as well.

>>30100763
>thinking that faggot was here a year ago
Stop responding to that kind of shit Anon.

Burn it all down. Push the fucking reset button.
Nuke the shithole.

That will finally make everyone happy.

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>>30100770
There wont be an uptick, the people who left are never coming back, the fandom is dying, there will be less and less fan content including pron.

MLP had its 5 minutes and now it's over.

>>30100845
Good, let's not be Simpsons, Spongebob and Fairy Odd Parents. New Generation when?

>>30100869
>Good, let's not be Simpsons, Spongebob and Fairy Odd Parents
You're 3 seasons and 9 episodes too late.

>>30101015
>9 episodes
You mean 6?

>>30101022
>He doesn't watch the early releases.
You're worse for this board than the guy spamming beastiality.

>>30100141
Be the change you want to see rather than bitching about it faggot

>>30100146
But new ones joined too.

>>30100141
You don't like it? Fuck back off to /v/ or /co/ or wherever the fuck you came from.

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>>30100141
>implying this board hasn't always been filled with generals

>>30100443
What's the scruffening?

>>30101541
>fucking newfags reee
It's two major restructures of the rules and culture of /mlp/. The first Scruffening happened in 2013 and the second in 2014.

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>>30101454
Just because it was when you got here two hours ago doesn't mean it wasn't ever

>>30100141
>generals
always been
>boring
for you
>slow
well there are less people, slower is natural

Instead of making an interesting thread you submit one in which you complain about lack of interesting threads. Mindset of a leech, it's you who makes this board worse, negative input, literally kys

>>30101566
>trying to 'lol newfag' people while being this fucking new
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/page/50411/
Okay, literally 2months after the creation of the board we already had Applejack, Twilight and MLP generals.
Now off my board memester.

>>30101675
The beard always had generals, it was never dominated by them
>>30101608
Mods don't allow it
>>30100786
You're probably right, but this is a thread for fighting faggots, and so I will
>>30100777
>Sure it's not friend
You're not my friend despite your get, and yest the board has changed
TONS of old kinds of threads are no longer allowed here, because the mods got lazy and sick of weeding out the troll threads from the fun threads, so they just banned them all. Why? Because they are not bronies, ponyfags, or any other stupid label, they don't care about this board. Furthermore they've allowed generals to become the majority here because they KNOW it kills a board even faster, when generals dominate a board, new threads sink to page ten like the board itself what quicksand, because people do not leave generals once they're allowed their little hangout where they will be catered to with no regard for the rest of the board, meaning the board will stagnate

>>30101857
This.

>>30101857
Yes because we didn't have fucking derpibooru to get our pictures from.
Also because we could, you know, have fun?
Now off with you.

Hooray! It's yet another "everything I don't like should fuck off and die" thread!

>>30101893
This is serious, anon. You can't deny the Scruffenings have done some damage to /mlp/'s culture. We're trying to turn back time to the good old days.

>it's so boring
And what do you consider funny? Follow me to the gay bath house/IWCIRD/gavin spam? You realize that was like 30% of /mlp/'s posts back then? You realize /mlp/ just doesn't have these posts anymore? Take off your nostalgia glasses.

>>30100151
/mlp/ was always SFW and this board is full of prompts. Ass worship was just dumb.
The only interesting thread I miss is the tulpa general.

>>30101922
>You realize /mlp/ just doesn't have these posts anymore?
We have IWTCIRD, IWPPTSMFOMF, the cuckshed shit, the faggot who spams real horses taking shits, and many others.
>/mlp/ was always SFW
Yes but the rule used to be really lax. Nowadays porn threads get deleted in 5 seconds or less.
>Tulpa general
So you do have reason to hate the Scruffening.

>>30101896
I'm on your side Anon.
But we can't and won't go back. Unless we could actually get rid of these mods and get one of us up there, it's over.

>>30101922
>full of prompts
>2
>x was dumb because I don't like it

>>30101928
We'll never get a ponyfag mod, and even if we do he won't be allowed to speak his mind because the neurotypical mods will enforce their agenda instead.

>>30101925
>Nowadays porn threads get deleted in 5 seconds or less.
I'm gonna call BS on this. I've seen threads and images archive

>>30101925
I can't remember when was the last time I saw a IWTCIRD thread, probably last year.

>Nowadays porn threads get deleted in 5 seconds or less.
What the fuck are you on about? Porn threads created at night (over 12AM) usually stay up for hours before getting deleted.
We only have like 3 janitors, not even kidding.

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>>30101941
Are you kidding? We have a ponyfag mod. He makes and stickies episode discussion threads. We are incredibly fortunate to have a mod who cares.

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>>30101970

>>30101970
>He makes and stickies episode discussion threads
I wish he would address our qualms. Based ponyfag mod, if you're out there, this is your cue.

>>30101870
No, off with you faggot

>>30101970
Kill yourself

>>30101893
No, it's a "this board is dying and people who care are doing the only thing they can, which is complain about it, thread"

Sorry you don't give a shit, maybe you should go back to your cancerous general and keep promoting the death of this board you fandom fan

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>>30102025
Sorry the thought of a mod who cares is incongruous with your meme-addled minds. He even made us a Christmas thread that auto-played Coloratura. http://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/29124321/

Maybe you'd be happier if he didn't exist so that you wouldn't hurt your stupid little brains trying to conceive that a mod gives a shit.

>>30102047
It's obvious he gives a shit, but does he give enough of a shit? He's not here explaining why the rules are the way they are and shit like that. If I had to guess, there's probably an internal mod hierarchy and he's lower on the list. I'm sure another mod moderates him, sets the rules, and hires new mods. But given 4chan's shoestring budget new mods are likely out of the question anytime soon.

>>30102047
If the mod cared this board wouldn't be in such a sorry state, in my humble opinion

>>30102832
Like >>30102064, maybe he's just in a position where he can't change what's already been set.

>>30102847
How can that even be, the mods choose who they ban and don't

I really don't think this board is high enough on the radar for anybody to care how it's ran outside of the people running it, unless there was an actual effort to get KILL this board from the higher ups on this site, which would make sense given how this board is ran, but I have a hard time believing that

>>30103325
>the mods choose who they ban and don't
No, what I'm talking about are the board rules. Perhaps the rules are governed by a normie moderator, and the subordinate ponyfag mod must follow those rules in order to keep his job. Why else does 4chan have a manager category of staff? The managers are mods who are allowed to set rules, create boards, and shit like that.

>>30100141
What happened?

>All the good writefags left

>Mods and janitors became bigger faggots than before.

>Only the people who demand content remained, making quantity over quality more common.

>A lot of writefags are just ignored when they post which ruins their motivation.

>People try to rehash old memes/threads which fail.

>People started taking the show so seriously that discussing it isn't even enjoyable.

>EQG

>Mass white-knighting

You can't write grimdark on here anymore, or anything that's abusive or cruel or anything. If you don't write porn, a character reflecting only on their flaws, or some anon/anon filly insert, it's trash.

to;dr - if it isn't from the pornographic, selfinsert cookie cutter, it's not /mlp/ approved.

>>30103379
So how do we fix it? We can't bring back old writefags, hire new moderation, kick out content leechers, pay attention to writefags, ban old memes, take the show with a grain of salt, reverse time so EqG didn't happen, or spray-paint the white knights. We're too far gone at this point.

>>30103417
You don't fix it, mate. You do the best you can to give yourself as much fun as possible while the board slowly dies.

>>30100443
Dude, that was 4 fucking years ago. Let it go.

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>>30100141
>It's all generals threads now, it's so boring and slow
This was the case as far back as S3. I gave up on /mlp/ years ago because of it; no show discussion, just OC race generals and autistic fetish generals and for a hot second there a Rainbow Dash's Crusty Cunt Flakes general.
If anything matters have vastly improved desu. I crept back in for S7 and got more lit lore talk going this past month than ever before.

So why isn't the site owner doing anything then? Has anyone tried to send messages to him or something? Guy can speak English too if you haven't noticed, so not all hope is lost.

>>30103547
>implying hiro cares about 4chan at all

He only cares about the most efficent way to make money off of this site, if you could somehow convince him that cleaning up /mlp/ would earn him more money maybe he would do something.

>>30103547
An Hiro doesn't care about the quality of the site so long as people still come here and he can get his ad revenue. He doesn't actually exert any control over the mods - he doesn't make boards, rules, or anything else. And he can speak English but pretends not to, using his nationality as a feeble excuse.

>>30100278
Patachu was a fun lad.

>>30100646
/mlh/

>>30103379
>>All the good writefags left
The fuck you talking about? Writefags have always been shit. I could probably count on one hand the number of actually good writers on this board over the years.
>>Mods and janitors became bigger faggots than before.
They're the most relaxed they've been in years.
>>Only the people who demand content remained, making quantity over quality more common.
>>A lot of writefags are just ignored when they post which ruins their motivation.
So what exactly is the problem? Are people clamoring for any kind of content, regardless of quality? Or is content being disregarded by the community? Which is it?
>>People try to rehash old memes/threads which fail.
Such as?
>>People started taking the show so seriously that discussing it isn't even enjoyable.
Only good point you've made.
>>EQG
Seriously?
>>Mass white-knighting
White knighting of who?

You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. You're just regurgitating the shit you've read the last few months.

>>30103565
>>30103562
But he said a thing about /mlpol/. A lot of anons thought that he will make it as a permanent board but in the end it never happened but important is that he actually said something about it. If anons on this board would all go and start sending messages to him, we could get probably something. It's always worth to try.

>>30103594
I forgot to add you to the list too lel.

>>30103594
>Writefags have always been shit.
Your opinions are so hot my eyeballs caught on fire just looking at them.
>They're the most relaxed they've been in years.
They still haven't eased up on the rules we don't like.
>So what exactly is the problem?
Nobody pays attention to writefags or other content creators, so they take it to mean their work isn't any good and they just quit. That means less fresh content.
>Such as?
IWTCIRD turning into IWPPTSMFOMF. And new arrivals like cuckshed anon.
>Seriously?
Yup. It's helped broaden the scope of /mlp/ - which is a bad thing as half the shit on the board isn't even pony related by now anymore.
>>30103603
>If anons on this board would all go and start sending messages to him, we could get probably something
Two problems. A: he doesn't keep his contact information public so there's no way to get ahold of him. And three, even if we did get ahold of him, he probably wouldn't care and worst case scenario he'd have the mods ban us for GR8.

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>>30100141
Was indoctrinated in early 2014, I may not be a 2012 fag, but I don't plan to go anywhere soon.

>>30103618
>Two problems. A: he doesn't keep his contact information public so there's no way to get ahold of him. And three, even if we did get ahold of him, he probably wouldn't care and worst case scenario he'd have the mods ban us for GR8.

>Two problems. A:
>And three,
Fucking kek
It's like i'm reading a Futurama script.

>>30103618
He has a twitter though. I know it's cancer and all but come on.

>>30103618
>They still haven't eased up on the rules we don't like.
We had loli porn the other day, and the thread made it to the archive
>Nobody pays attention to writefags or other content creators, so they take it to mean their work isn't any good and they just quit. That means less fresh content.
Really? Because I thought the problem was quantity, not quality.
>IWTCIRD turning into IWPPTSMFOMF. And new arrivals like cuckshed anon.
Forced memes have always been a thing. Before Nyxposting, there was the leninposter, who was originally TOPF, and before that, a couple copypastas got spammed around the board, one about fucking Scootaloo, and the other about holding Applejack in a basement and collecting her poop. It's literally just a phase.
>Yup. It's helped broaden the scope of /mlp/ - which is a bad thing as half the shit on the board isn't even pony related by now anymore.
>We need more content to talk about
>No, not that
At this point, it doesn't interfere with the production of the show. The only time it had a noticeable impact on the show was in season three.

>>30103664
>I thought the problem was quantity, not quality
You mean too many content creators, or not enough?
>It's literally just a phase.
Explains why it's been going on since 2012.
>At this point, it doesn't interfere with the production of the show.
Irrelevant. We're not talking about the show, or the board, we're talking about JOHN CENAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Seriously though, EqG has hurt the board.

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>>30103674
OH SHIT

I miss the feeling of discovering this show back in early 2011. Back then full episodes were everywhere on youtube and I binged the hell out of season one. The wait for S2 was excruciating. I vividly remember /mlp/ was full of spiderman shitposting back in those days.

>>30103691
>/mlp/
>early 2011
>waiting for s2 on /mlp/
/mlp/ was created in 2012, right around the time S2 wrapped up. You must be one of the originalfags from the /b/ and /co/ threads. Good times, good times, even if we were harshly oppressed.

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>>30100141
Mods delete any prompt posts and the board is overrun with generals, there's even a fucking mlp general, general now and its fucking retarded, hell even shitposts are starting to amuse me now in the way that some of them can be so stupid they make me laugh.

>>30103708
>mlp general is fucking retarded
t. cancerous newfag who doesn't appreciate the good old days. How does it feel to be the cancer killing this board?

>>30103674
Kek at the spoiler.
>You mean too many content creators, or not enough?
I'm not making any claim. The original argument was that there was a focus on quantity of content, and not quality, implying that there's a lot of content here that's shit, whereas before, there was less, but higher quality, content. That's at odds with the idea that writefags, and other content creators are being discouraged from making content due to the lack of attention. Either people are sucking writefag dick left and right, and that's why we have a lot of bad stories, or writefags aren't being deterred by the lack of response from readers.
>Seriously though, EqG has hurt the board.
I don't think EQG has ruined the board. The posters that post EQG would have always been here. If it wasn't EQG that shitposters latched onto, it would have been Filly Funtasia, or something else equally detached from the franchise.

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>>30103713
>Mlp general
>On the /mlp board

What the fuck, how does it make sense you tard, it'd be like me going to a burger restaurant and there's another smaller burger restaurant within the larger one.

>>30103708
>there's even a fucking mlp general
how nu r u

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>>30103731
>it'd be like me going to a burger restaurant and there's another smaller burger restaurant within the larger one.

This arouses the American.

>>30103722
>before, there was less, but higher quality, content
No. Previously, we had more content that was also higher quality. Nowadays since we're on life support, both quality and quantity have gone down the shithole. Those who do contribute often receive no replies - which leads them to believe their work is bad even if it's really good - so they just give up. And then anons go complaining that "anons keep starting awesome greentexts and then they just vapourise into thin air." We also have the other end of the spectrum - those who are bad writers but believe they are entitled. Those are the ones that keep generals alive by "bumping for moar" when they're really just samefagging until their feeble brain can concoct another wall of shit. In the old days, everyone wrote, everyone was a good writer, and everyone liked everyone's work Remember I'm talking greentext, not true prose, so Past Sins doesn't count as being loved or appreciated.

>>30103701
Sorry, it's all a blur to me these days, and you're right I did come from /co/.

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>>30103746
>"Welcome to burger world sir, we have a nice selection of burgers for sale and you specifically came here to buy a burger from us, but if you want you can go 10 feet over there to another smaller burger world and buy the same burger"

Okay, this makes sense I see now.

>>30103731
MLP General is filled with the old /co/mrades from the good old threads. When suddenly GR15, they moved here and just kept the original name for whatever reason. But that burger restaurant inside a burger restaurant does sound appealing to the American inside me. Waltz into McDonald's and pick up some Burger King on the way to my table...quite appealing.

>>30103763
Whatever, I kinda get it but that stuffs still dumb to me...

>>30101922
>Follow me to the gay bath house
kek, almost forgot about that

>>30103753
>In the old days, everyone wrote, everyone was a good writer, and everyone liked everyone's wor
Bullshit. I've been a writefag since about 2013. The big names have always been overrated writers inside a circlejerk. There really have been a handful of decent writers. I'm not one of them, and neither are the majority of writers.
>Past Sins doesn't count as being loved or appreciated.
Don't be silly. Past Sins was never loved or appreciated.

>Those who do contribute often receive no replies - which leads them to believe their work is bad even if it's really good - so they just give up. And then anons go complaining that "anons keep starting awesome greentexts and then they just vapourise into thin air." We also have the other end of the spectrum - those who are bad writers but believe they are entitled. Those are the ones that keep generals alive by "bumping for moar" when they're really just samefagging until their feeble brain can concoct another wall of shit
To me, this just sounds like people don't want greentext. They may be shifting their focus on discussing the show more. They don't want writefags anymore, and shitty writefags haven't come to terms with that.

>>30100141
You just had an opportunity to put any thread you wanted onto the board - and you chose this. So you've got no room to judge anybody. Even the worst general is better than what you've done.
Enjoy being the biggest failure on the board, OP.

>>30103818
>They may be shifting their focus on discussing the show more
Then why would they still sustain the generals with pictures and character discussion? If they wanted show discussion they'd be out there starting 9 million show discussion threads. We do have that after each episode, and admittedly it does piss me off because I'd rather them just go into one episode discussion thread, but you can't have everything in these tough times.

>>30103818
>MUH 47 SHOW DISCUSSION THREADS
/mlp/might as well be one general on /co/ then.

>>30103832
No, then we'd have Lee's followers breathing down our necks and there wouldn't be enough room to dicuss everything. We'd hit bump limit in three minutes flat at the rate of show discussion we have! Silly anon, we need a whole board for show discussion!
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>>30103827
>>30103832
>false dichotomy
It's not all show, or all generals. You can have a slow trend of rising discussion and declining activity in generals. And why limit it to one thread? What if you want to discuss one particular aspect of the episode? You can discuss the song, or the animation, or the writing, or how the episode fits into the rest of the season. You can talk about how the episode affects a particular character and their development. Why limit it to a single thread?

>>30103860
>Why limit it to a single thread?
To allow 149 other threads to be used for the shit we have now. That way, oldfags get >muh show discussion and newfags get >muh cancerous dead generals.

>>30103860
Because people want different things. Not everyone likes the same thing. And thinking otherwise is actually a legitimate sign of actual autism.
That's what this all boils down to.
Quit being so fucking autistic.
Quit sucking mod dick.

Prompt threads need to come back.

>>30103874
>Because people want different things. Not everyone likes the same thing. And thinking otherwise is actually a legitimate sign of actual autism.
Holy fuck. Are you actually retarded, or do you not know how imageboards work?
You make a thread, and people like it: it stays around longer, because people bump the thread with discussion.
You make a thread, and people don't like it: it dies, because no one talks about it, and it's gone forever.

Seriously? You think I'm the autist? Way to miss the entire fucking point. This has nothing to do with thinking that everyone likes the same thing. No one is going to force you into discussion. If someone feels like they have a topic that's interesting, and relevant to the board, and feel that enough people would want to have their own thread, then they should be able to make one. If they're wrong, then their thread dies. It's self-regulating.

>>30103950
>If they're wrong, then their thread dies.
What is the power of samefagging? Anons who host a disliked thread can continue to keep it alive or at least make it appear that way. Because an imageboard is anonymous, it's impossible to accurately discover what people truly think about anything.

>>30103950
I was talking about the people that complain about "Muh show discussion!"

I actually agree with you.

>>30103964
>What is the power of samefagging?
Can't do that anymore. Posting in your own thread before other posters, and posting in your own thread with a high frequency causes you to not bump the thread. It's been a thing for a while
>>30103968
My bad. Now I'm the autist

>>30103984
>posting in your own thread with a high frequency causes you to not bump the thread
Maybe on /b/ but I've never noticed that happening on /mlp/.

>>30103992
I've noticed that for a couple years now. Unless they reverted it back, so you can bump your own thread, they've prevented OP from samefagging. There's also that very convenient counter telling you how many posters there are in the thread. Pretty handy sometimes

>>30100141
>Summary: OP complaining about the content of this board.
>OP want's to be entertained but we're not doing a good enough job.

OPfag should start interesting threads if he wants to read those.
He should make lively, fast and interesting posts and lead by example.

>>30104022
The poster counter isn't entirely accurate now that mobileposting exists. The creator of the thread could create the post on his PC, bump it with his phone, clear cookies and cycle airplane mode and continue bumping. And the counter would go up.

>>30104033
Yeah, but without any content, or discussion, and that the OP topic being shit, then people are going to see right through it. And any tool faggots have to make their threads last longer, everyone else does too. Even if two people find a thread interesting, they're going to have a better chance at surviving than a thread where OP is the only one who thinks his thread is worth existing.

>>30103484
Never forgive, never forget


F

>>30104068
>>30104033
If we got prompts back it would fix everything.
There'd be new threads created all the time and those generals would risk getting bumped every few minutes instead of days.
That way only the big generals would stay alive, rest would have to become big or disappear.
As it was before, as it should be.

>>30104091
But that would allow the cuckshed and the Nyxfags and Poochieposting to go about their dreck with no repercussions.

>>30104091
>If we got prompts back it would fix everything.
If we got GOOD prompts back.

I don't mind prompts. I used to make my whole existence here writing for them, but the reason they got axed is because they become really low-effort, and unimaginative

>>30104102
Who cares? People would learn (again) how to ignore these.

>>30104112
No. Banning certain prompts would be too much work IMO.
I mean, we're already asking for changes Anon, we can't ask for everything, at least not at once.
Low efforts prompt would simply die off if everyone sage them, it's as simple as that.

>>30104124
>Low efforts prompt would simply die off if everyone sage them
Don't be so certain. The cucksheds are still lurking and we've all tried to get rid of them.

>>30104129
No, everyone always reply to them Anon.
I mean, cuckshed-Anon gets more (you)'s than your average write/drawfag right now.
It's really sad.

>>30104124
>No. Banning certain prompts would be too much work IMO.
Didn't say anything about banning. Just saying prompts are only going to help if posters put effort and thought into them.

>>30104137
Oh, yeah but you still need to 'enforce' it at the end of the day.
You can't trust an anonymous board with people coming from all horizons, full of shitposters and /pol/lacks and derpibooru spies.
But yes, of course funny/smart/creative prompts will always be better.

>>30100141
Hey look it's the "I hate generals" general.

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>>30100141
>Is anyone from 2012 still around?
Yes. Genuinely.

As for an explanation, if you were there you'd know. /mlp/ was largely unmoderated before. We had all sorts of threads, it was free game because the mods didn't really care and we were containment anyway.

Then Faust came. It's not her fault or anything, she's based af and I love her but after that came the scruffening as well as the influx of Bronies. /mlp/ became well known among the fandom, moreso than ever despite the fandom origins being here in the first place.

So then more people continue to poor in, the community sort of changes, we see EG, bandwagoners go. The barrier between horsefucker and brony becomes thinner and thinner, and 4chan at large gains mainstream presence like never before, being mentioned in national news and everything which makes the site at large more normalfag than ever.

This ties in to the state of the board because a lot of the stuff you see is the result of a sort of different mentality. Generals have been around forever, but never with the presence they have today and that comes with people forcing one as they're attempting to ape another, like you see with the Dazzlings thread which I remember starting and even visited but never would I imagine it'd still be running today.

Generals are a wide problem on 4chan, they become a little chatroom essentially for the members and everything sort of gets secluded. It happens on /co/ too. I was pretty shocked seeing the catalog recently too. By and large it's probably because we let the generals stay and fester so they spread. And with the fandom slowing down, the bandwagoners leaving and the bronies basically finding home here, the generals are here to stay

People would doomsay and Ron Paul post about some things that would happen to /mlp/ in the future and honestly some of them have come to pass

And none of this is to say I hate bronies and I'm some elitist horsefucker stuck in the past or some bollocks

>>30103520
There's definitely some good discussion to be had here. There was a really cool thread at the S7 opener that went into all sorts regarding Celestia's plans for Nightmare, the Elements and loads of things.

You are right in that things have been bad for a while, it strikes me because some of my board filters are years old now and obsolete. If I had them back then, there was clearly a problem. I think now we just have more generals than ever before which makes a problem seem apparent from an instant look at the catalog.

I think there's always been good discussion to be had on /mlp/, I wouldn't really cut it short by saying the opposite because it'd be false. S3, S4, S5, S6 till now, it's not been devoid of it so I disagree with you there desu.
I'll always consider this board my home, but I too stopped browsing it regularly years ago.

"Anon in Equestria" becoming encouraged instead of laughed at.

>>30104482
People want what they want.

>>30100187
As opposed to the truckloads of shit that generalfags and greenfags spout out all over the board 24/7?

>>30103379
>You can't write grimdark on here anymore
>what is slave general
>what was that autistic equestrian wars general
>what is a half dozen cyoas

Maybe your grimdark story was just shit, anon?

>>30100652
>>30098017
>they just deleted it

wew lad

Wings happened. Fucking wings.

>>30104675
Holy shit, and then those faggots will be 'uh what are they banning exactly?'
Fucks sake

>>30101970
>We have a ponyfag mod

had

>>30104569
Not him but slave general is a whiteknight general. He's crying because the kids that sustained the submission is mandatory general grew up and moved on.

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>>30100141
Mlpol is the new successor considering it allows pony porn and a lot of oldfags went there.

>>30100141
the usual cancer: newfags + shitty mods

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>>30100191
>>30100696
>>30101454
>>30101608
>>30101857
If you desire a better place that is better than things are now, I suggest you seek pick related out. /qa/ is probably your best bet or looking the place up.

>>30104797
wait, they restarted /qa/?

wew

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>>30104825
yeah and it was taken over by mlpol for a while until they got board and made their own website. Neat place if your looking for a new face of the fandom. That website could house the next golden age.

mlpol.net

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>>30104844
>it even got a ban list with public humilliation

top fucking lmao

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>>30104692
http://desuarchive.org/mlp/search/type/sticky/
He was here ten days ago. It's odd he didn't sticky anything on the 13th, but that might be due to Canada ruining everything.

>>30105191
Just so everyone knows: one of our mods is a Twifag

>>30104569
No no mate, let me explain. Before the doing hurtful things/loving things to your waifu charts became a thing, there were abuse threads. People used to write a bunch of abuse green in them and no one batted an eye.

A few months after that, if you wrote anything with abuse, people would lose their shit and start calling you trash, a piece of shit, and would either report, sage, or ignore the threads. I'm not talking about my own writing, I'm talking about the actual way people responded to the topic.

>>30105215
>he didn't type 'pony christmas' in google and picked the first pic that looked christmas'y
No, just stop.
Unless this faggot explicitly proves that he isn't new, he won't ever be a 'ponyfag'.

>>30105260
The reason I say that is because he's posted in the NTT before

>>30104844
just got back from mlpol.net
they told me to tell you to fuck off for advertising it

>>30105260
Secondly, kill you'reself

>>30100151
>and prompts
fucking good
The board's already filled with way too many greentexts

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>>30105276
Yea that was me you polish bastard. Anyways, I don't mid stuff like this actually. It's just we had a few autists from our board start making thread shillng for our site on this board, even though we had told them to stop annoying you guys. But if it's just casual talk about the website that's cool. I just didn't want anyone from our place giving us a bad reputation because they spammed your board.

>>30105344
no, anon. you need to respect rules 1 & 2

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>>30105328
This. Greentext ruin threads.

>Posting in a thread
>Some autist suddenly jumps in with huge ass blocks of green based on the OP image
>All other activity in the thread dies because people are reading that shit and jerking off
>What few posts remain are stranded between memetext blocks
>Autist finishes his fanfic, another autist starts
>Fetish general #61249 is born
>bump
>bump
>bump
>bump

>>30105385
>Fetish general #61249 is born
this is where the problem starts

>>30105385
Come now, friend. No one on this board reads anything.

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>>30105385
Been a while since this was posted

>>30105328
>>30105385
Yeah you're right.
We'd be better off discussing about the same shit we did for 7years now and stop creating content.

Holy shit
I swear you guys must come from some discord group from reddit or some shit

>>30105215
>>30105273
no wonder the ntt flashposter was btfo to hell and back years ago

>>30105449
How about you fuck off to fimfiction with your mary sues and your OCs. If I wanted a shitty story I'd ask your mom what it was like raising you.

>>30100735
It feels weird to realize I'm an oldfag in this fandom, I've been silently coasting along since late '11.

>>30105449
I'd rather see discussion about canon things than some oc's

No I'm not giving you retards any more (you)s
But good try

>>30104844
>That website could house the next golden age.

Is it bad that this may actually be plausible? A board where /mlp/ and /pol/ join forces and content creators from there and other parts of 4chan they browse that run off on those boards ultimately come together and recreate the older times?

>>30105758
No.
That's literally infinity chan.
If a board gets too big, it gets corrupted, one way or another.
Old times were old times, they're over now.

>>30100141
>What happened to this board?
You'd know what happened if you were here from the beginning, newfag

I've been around since S1, I've just never really posted. I think it's because the show has lost the value in just being a simple slice of life that we could watch every week for fun. Now it's a majestic epoch with magic fights and shit. I don't like it anymore. It would be more interesting if it went full hardcore, but that's not going to happen.

>>30105789
As much as I want to call you out for doomsaying, you're pretty much right. If the film doesn't bring us back to at least half of what we were in 2012-13 than I give us until the major con in Maryland is gone and we get incorperated into normiecon.

Who knows, we may get nostalgic over now when things weren't as "bad."

>>30105885
>Now it's a majestic epoch with magic fights and shit.
>with S7 having the longest SoL marathon to date

is this nigga for real?

>>30105888
Well yeah, we're not the first board 'dying' or whatever.
I mean look at /pol/, what it is now and what it used to be. 8ch got created because of what we're experiencing now.

But I hope the movie brings back some life in here.
And if it doesn't, well....
G5

also checked

>>30105867
Nice ass-pull. Mr full o' shit.

>>30105908
was for >>30105885

>>30105920
My love for the show ended when Gok- I'm sorry, I mean Twilight fought Maj- sorry, Tirek.

>>30100141
Mods are cunts
reddit newfags came
oreganos left
???
cancer

Sometimes I feel genuinely sorry for people who started watching the show in 2014 or later. By that point my interest in the series as a whole was declining. I miss the early days.

It can happen. Only on The Hub.

>>30106270
Don't be a faggot, just because your interest was declining doesn't mean others weren't starting, nor does it mean others interest never declined

Self righteous idiots like you are part of the biggest problem here

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Oh hey it's this thread again...

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Porn got banned.

Comparing seasons 1 and 2 to the others is like comparing a Desert Eagle hand cannon to a brand of pancake mix. They don't have the same execution or intent. They're just not related in any way but name.

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>>30104441
Maybe that's true and I'm just thick. I became less invested in poner in general after S4, so maybe wasn't going out my way for discussion. But during the hiatus I gained a newfound understanding/appreciation of storytelling and S7 has been insanely consistent on satisfying episode plots IMO, so I've been more interested in talking about MLP than I have been in years. I also rewatched S5 & 6 in their entirety to catch a returning ponyfag up, and now appreciate them & what they were trying to do much more with retrospective context.

Plus somebody told me they wanted an axe murderer to break in & stab me last night because I saw the show in a way he didn't, so chances are you're right & I'm the one who changed because /mlp/ really is the same it's always been.

>>30107067
>/mlp/ really is the same it's always been
Really nigga?

>>30107111
There's only two differences, it's slow as shit now and scruffening happened.
Anything else is 100% inside your head.

>>30107067
>so chances are you're right & I'm the one who changed because /mlp/ really is the same it's always been.
Eh I wasn't saying that. The board has definitely changed, but there's also consistently been good discussion to have in the board when you've looked to find it.

>I gained a newfound understanding/appreciation of storytelling
That, and it's relation to S7 being?

>>30100141
it was inevitable

>>30105885
>Now it's a majestic epoch with magic fights and shit. I don't like it anymore.
You mean like...in MLP FIM episode 2, Friendship is Magic part 2?

The show has always had a mere hint of "epic adventure" thrown in, and it still remains only a hint....most of the episodes of every season to this day are SoL stuff

>>30104797
/pol/ is pure cancer, it's the only place on this board more cancerous than /b/ and /b/tards were also a HUGE problem for this board, they are most of the fandom fans, only the utmost faggots from this board are down with that mlpol shit and good, it gets them the fuck out of here.

>>30100141
you can't even roleplay

There's actually a lot less general flaggotry at the moment since the show is in season.

Areyousure prompts are still getting deleted?

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>>30100141
Your mom was boring and slow with my dick last night

>>30100141
Every year since 2013, people have made threads like this. And the years before as well, on other boards.

That's just how it goes.

>>30108559
But it's true right now more than ever
Generals are a problem for board quality and activeness, there is no denying this

>>30108940
This is very much open for debate.

One argument was that too many generals push the interesting threads off the board in favor of the same stagnating threads, but with 10 pages worth of content and plenty of chances to bump for visibility, threads don't die because they get forcefully pushed off the edge, they die of inactivity.

In other words, the generals aren't the reason there aren't many quality threads, it's just the only thing you have left in the absence of quality threads.
When people don't have any ideas for good original threads, the only thing that is left unaffected is the generals since they're constantly just mediocre enough to attract posts and survive without any originality, and so they stand out and get blamed.

If you killed the generals, the people in it wouldn't magically become Somewhat Original Again™, they'd either stop posting or spam HI ANON-tier shitposting to relieve the boredom.

>>30109032
This.

Generals aren't the reason the board is slow. It's because the board is slow and unattractive that there's so many generals.
It's the only way we can get content too, now.

Bring back the fucking prompts.

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>>30100141
>>30104797
this

>>30109032
Generals are inherently cancer on a 4chan type board, generals may as well be chatrooms that only attract one type of person and compartmentalize the board into small, hardly active sections, especially with a board as specific as /mlp/

Imagine if there was a Spongebob thread, and instead of the whole board being general discussion about Spongebob the show, it was just a bunch of tiny mini boards like "SQUIDWARD FANS" and "PATRICK FANS" and "HOLE FUCKER GENERAL"

>>30110805
Spongebob board*

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>>30110805
Wait... And?
No, Anon you don't get it.
They compartmentalize the board, yes, but the groups are there.
There's always been Twifags, dashfags and sunfags.
The only difference it makes is that waifufags stay in their confinement threads instead of shitposting in every threads, like glimposters do now.

Remove the generals and it'll be the same anyway. One guy will post a green and then people will repost in when the thread dies, expecting more of the same, without calling it a general.
Only difference is that it'll be chaotic as fuck and actually finding what you're searching for will be hell. Also the waifufags will wage war in any thread because someone posted a pic of worst pone and shitpost it to hell.

You guys don't even think about it, you just come with the first conclusion that comes in your mind and stick with it.

Yes some generals shouldn't be here, but until you create good threads and bump them out, they have every rights to stay, faggots.

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>>30110874
>until you create good threads to bump them out
>implying shitpost threads aren't churned out on an industrial scale to bump off other shitpost threads

>>30110874
No, I'll repeat myself again, generals are cancer on a 4chan type board.

Generals should only exist when needed and only then, aka to limit spillover of a certain topic into other threads, name me one general that exists that is needed based on that criteria?

I'm sorry you're a generalfag and it would hurt you to lose your favorite personal safe space, but you must realize this is 4chan and that generals on this board are not needed nor are they practical

>>30109183
I'm giving up on trying,
to sell you things you ain't buying

>>30100649
There was a short time when greentexts couldnt be posted but regular discussion could very recently.

Whole damn site grinded to a halt except people asking when it was going to come back

>>30110951
>aka to limit spillover of a certain topic into other threads, name me one general that exists that is needed based on that criteria?
Not him, but could you give something that was actually hard to prove your point?

>Queen Umbra Thread
>My Massive Pony
>anonfilly thread
>Pony Horror Thread
>Unattractive / Low Self-Esteem Ponies
>Spanking Thread
>Anon in pony prison
>Pony Transformation General
>/pgg/ - Pony Games General
>Fat Pony General

No spill over from any of these threads.

>>30100141
to counter your point, there are now more conventions that with each passing year have record high number of attendees

it has become the norm, most teens who grew up with this as part of the fandom have aged out and left, stagnation has occurred in all discussion, the writers and designers that made this show have since left, less and less people come back from the hiatus, we only get one season a year, this season is being spoiled and will end early

it's just calming down on all fronts

This board would be shut down and closed if it wasn't for the solid generals that cures the whiny cancer.
Random shitposting threads and no generals would mean everyone would flee to other forums.

It's fortunate we got a good set of generals to keep a the board from sinking into total shit. Generals you can visit when you only have 15 min to spare but need a quick look at something interesting. Generals that try and ignore the whiny bitchers.

>>30111230
repeal gr15

>>30111230
No, you're simply a newfag. People don't hate generals for no good reason, and nobody cares about the opinions of casual fans like you

It's us actual fans who matter, those of us who actually like and even loved this board and don't want it to be dead

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>>30100278
IIRC he worked one week for Hasbro circa 2015 in Pawtucket, but he let it down for a better job and went back to France. I think the attempt to getting him raided last year was the nail in 'Anonymous in Industria' storyline. he still draws ponies occasionally but not much.
Yeah, a golden age is gone, now Neo-MLP took over, the great oldfag purge also didn't help making it better. There are better places, maybe /pone/ or mlpol, but that's the fandom I general.
We'd need someone to bring in something fresh, something new, something cute that motivates our creativity!

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>>30110922
>the whole purpose of this board isn't to shitpost about a show for little girls
What did he mean by this?

>>30110951
Literally spewing memes.

>>30111409
>how to show everyone I'm new 101
Good post Anon.
But I don't care about you being retarded or new, dw.
We've never been as slow as we are now. We're barely faster than when it was a single fucking thread on /co/.
Because we can't talk about anything. If we try to talk about the lore, we get glimposted to hell and/or Anons just feel like spewing negativity and other /b/ level retardedness.
Same if we try to talk about the staff/events/fandom.
And we can't make prompts = can't have fun.

Generals have nothing to do with it, stop boogeymaning them.

>>30100443
>>30103484
>>30104082
/mlp/ has existed longer post-scruffening that it did pre.

>>30111965
>Literally spewing memes.
No memes, just facts. The fact that you have literally no response other than calling me a memer tells a lot about your type, you generalfags know you're cancer, know you're killing the board, and know there is no good reason to keep you around. You have no argument at all, you're just vapid twats who want their personal little hangout. Sign up for fucking AIM then and make a chatroom, that isn't what 4chan is about.

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Okay no more (you)'s for you memester master.
Until you can actually show that generals are somehow bad for the board, you won't be anything else than a glimposter to all of us.

>>30111230

You are so, so incredibly wrong. This board was much better and more fun when there were barely any generals. Generals are nothing but bad fanfics, constant reposting of old content, and incessant circlejerking. If generals were banned on 4chan, absolutely nothing of value would be lost.

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>>30111979
>no memes
>X is the cancer of 4chin
?
Do you know what happened when scruffy got rid of the milky way and ass worship general?
Half of the people using those simply left the board, to go to ponychan or infinity chan.
Guess what would happen if we got rid of these now?
Dividing our dwindling community even further won't be good, for anyone.

>>30111992
Yes, but that doesn't mean we need to get rid of them tho.
They're here because we don't bump them out.

>>30112002

Too bad the generals got rid of the board instead.

>>30112002
Hahahaha
Half the people left this board because it's boring, dead, and scrolling over the front page will offer nothing to anybody who isn't ingrained in a tight knit general

This boars is dead because it's not fun anymore, and it's not fun anymore because mods tightened up on what threads are allowed while simultaneously allowing generals

Face it, generals are just there to keep people sedated and comfortable in their own little zone, much like this fucking board itself. Mods want this board to die, and you're helping it YOU COON.

>>30111987
>Until you can actually show that generals are somehow bad for the board, you won't be anything else than a glimposter to all of us.
I don't know who you're referring to, generals are bad for the board because they stagnate it, when a board is overrun with generals it means people never leave those generals, meaning only the same couple threads will ever get bumped and the board dies

It's fucking simple, Moot explained this when he left 4chan and he was right, generals are cancer, literally a cancer, they KILL a board when allowed to spread

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>>30112015
>still no actual point
Two years ago I would've called you a redditor.

>>30112019
Yes, and? I don't see where in my posts did you see me going against any of what you said?
I'm the guy saying that the scruffening started it all and was a mistake.

>>30112023

You just don't want to get the point. To general fags, their general IS /mlp/.

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>>30112021
What's stopping people from making new threads Anon?
What are the sources to all of this?
Which board are you referring to?

Surely, this couldn't be just you and moot pulling it out of your asses, right?

>>30112023
Yes, and? I don't see where in my posts did you see me going against any of what you said?

The part where you're defending this board having a shitload of useless generals

>>30112029
>What's stopping people from making new threads Anon?
Here, read it again
>>30112021
> generals are bad for the board because they stagnate it, when a board is overrun with generals it means people never leave those generals, meaning only the same couple threads will ever get bumped and the board dies

People become comfortable in their generals, and they don't leave them

Making new threads doesn't matter when only ten people are browsing the homepage rather than keeping one general open

How can you be this fucking dense

>>30112035
>>30112031
Yes, or, maybe, just maybe, it's the fact that we can't post anything that spawned so many generals in the first place, huh?
Oh wow gee, who would've thought!

You don't see many generals on /co/ for that reason, the mods don't stop anyone from posting their marvel or DC stuff everywhere. They can even talk about movies.

Generals are the answer we had to the scruffening, and its effects.
But they're not the problem, once again. Get rid of the no prompt rule and you'll see generals being kicked out once again.

>>30112061
>Get rid of the no prompt rule

only if we then ban fanfiction posts

>>30112035
Lemme add something to >>30112061
I'm sick af and can't think straight.

The only reason people use generals is because the board is slow otherwise and the new threads coming that aren't other generals are shit.
As simple as that.

>>30112067
Oh okay, now I know you were just baiting.
Good job.

>>30112071
You do realize prompts were banned for that very reason, right?

>>30112071
How do you know new threads that aren't generals are shit?

>>30112061
>just maybe, it's the fact that we can't post anything that spawned so many generals in the first place, huh?
That makes no sense
>You don't see many generals on /co/ for that reason, the mods don't stop anyone from posting their marvel or DC stuff everywhere. They can even talk about movies.
Because /co/ has competent mods who aren't trying to kill the board, /co/ could have generals as easy as this board could and many want it, many people on /co/ want a Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, and Loud House general...but it doesn't happen because the mods know it's cancerous to the board

>>30112071
>The only reason people use generals is because the board is slow otherwise and the new threads coming that aren't other generals are shit.
>As simple as that.

Hahaha, you really just said it didn't you
>all threads that aren't generals are shit!
This is the face of the fans of the fandom, everyone, TALK ABOUT MY WAIFU AND MY FETISH OR ITS SHIT
Fuck off you literal moron, you people are why this board is garbage even more so than the mods, you don't watch the show therefor you can't discuss it, kill yourself, kill your fucking mother for ever having such a wretched piece of human shit and then kill yourself

>>30112077
No. You saying that proves that you actually wasn't there Anon.
It was banned because it was the best way to shitpost.
That's all there is to it. That and scruffy got a hateboner for candybutt.

If the greentexts were the reason and he got rid of them, this board would be dead already.

Greens are the only content we can make on our own. There's a couple drawfags of course, but that doesn't bring people in.
Hiatuses are harsh enough as is, remove the content creation and we're dead as /po/

In a perfect world generals would all behave like cyoas or thingpone and only exist when needed/new content is being made and not be permament residents on the board.

But also, In a perfect world we wouldn't have page 1 using newfags screaming about generals bumping off their IWTCIRD thread.

>>30112084
>putting words in my mouth
>changing the meaning of my words
>ad hominems
good job proving everyone you have no idea what you're saying, couldn't have done it better myself.
Now off my board redditor.

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wait whats happening here
why are you guys even here if not for the greentexts
???

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>>30112086
>There's a couple drawfags of course, but that doesn't bring people in.

>>30112095
You didn't reply to a single point I made, proving you generalfags are not only fandom fan poseurs but complete and total morons who only defend generals because you're mentally deficient and can't actually discuss the show in any real way

Kill yourself, you fucking queer.

>>30100770
Fucking hasdrones fucking up my board with their self-lying bullshit. Go choke on a dick you useless faggot. Can't even draw fanart, go die while having sex with a duck.

>>30100795
We should spam this on 4chan's IRC.

>>30112101
Oh come on Anon, you know what I meant by that.
We're not here to get pictures, it's not 20010 anymore.


>30112102
No more (you)s for you.
I don't need to prove you wrong, you did it by yourself.
You're not here to make the board better, you're just here to shitpost and try to kill us faster.
Good job, you got me going for an hour or so.
Go ahead and brag about it on your reddit discord group.

>>30112102
You've got that 'eighteen year old who thinks 4chan is serious business' feel to your posts, Anon.

>>30101608
Holy fucking shit kill yourself, you victimizing piece of fucking shit. You're worse than Tumblr and Reddit combine, go crack your own ball sack and rip your testicles apart. I want you dead. Never reproduce you asinine underevolved monkey, evolution passed right over your head.

This fandom and its hypocrism after all these years astounds me.

You tell them they're a bunch of disgusting good for nothing idiots and the least thing they could do is be honest and humble about it, but no.
They don't want to improve and tell you to fuck off. What a bunch of idiots. I can't wait to ban this entire fanbase from the face of the internet.

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>>30112112
Pony is serious business
What are you, new? Or just a normalfag?

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>>30112086
>There's a couple drawfags of course, but that doesn't bring people in.

You're right, who the fuck cares about images on an image board.

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>H-hey you autists! I just said that greentexts should be removed!
>Hey respond to me! hey! try to prove me wrong u fgts xd

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>>30112116
Oh you're right, look at how lively the drawfag thread is Anon!
Swarming with life.

>>30112071
>that aren't other generals are shit.
>that aren't other generals are shit.
>(threads) that aren't other generals are shit.
You can't make this shit up, famalan. This is real life. There are "people" in real life who think like this.
They're called mexicans, brazilians, canadian immigrants, muslims, argentinians. They live in the year 900 BC.

You can't even use a toilet correctly you filthy animals. How are we allowing these animals to live? They're endangering civilization and the planet itself.

>>30112121
>Drawfags going to the drawfag thread
Novice mistake.
That's how you get 500 revisions requested on anything you draw because some aspie wants every lock of hair to be perfect as his fallout OC plows Rainbow Dash, and if you ignore them somehow you're the asshole.

When Nobby or GC or Nips or Raggie or Pencils or whatever start a thread where they're actively drawing they'll farm more (you)'s than anything else.

>>30112129
Well go ahead Anon, tell me which threads these last few weeks, were good?
We're not even in hiatus, and the episodes threads don't last more than a couple days.

I'm not gonna bother reading all the shit you wrote tho, sorry.

>>30112134
Yes. And when is this happening?
Once every six months?
Less?
How many drawfags are good enough to actually 'farm' the (you)'s and how many are actually active here and post at least once a week?

Like I said, I didn't mean it 'literally' when I said drawfags didn't bring in peeps. But /you/ and other people browsing here can't expect them to be here whenever you come online.
Compared to the legions of writefags we used to have
And I'm not saying that writefags are more important either. All content is important, and it's great.

>>30107297
I wanted to "keep it short" but words kept coming and well... You know sliding-timescales? Cartoons, comics, /co/ material mostly. Brand recognition is important to corporations, so characters never age and things never change and history gets dragged behind the status quo like tarmac giving way to a motorized anchor. but that is diametrically opposed to creativity, which is the foundation of these fictions. It's art vs business, expression vs reliability. People like [thing] just fine the way it is, so why take a risk on something they might not?
Well, because then it's meaningless. If time doesn't pass, then changes don't stick, then events don't matter, then why are you invested? Episodes just become bitesize thrills, like a phone game or a joke book. I stopped keeping up with Simpsons & Family Guy & South Park years ago because I wasn't getting anything out of it; same shit different season.
Most look at that and say "well duh, that's just the way things are", but it doesn't have to be. Take Marvel Comics. What distinguishes them from DC? The characters, the settings, the IP copyrights, superficial shit. But when Marvel was founded, it was a whole other beast. Stan Lee, Jack Kirby & co thought superheroes were insipid, boring kiddy shit, so they wrote stories about believable people in the real world going through relatable situations and sprinkled in some powers & costumes. In those first ~8 years, Peter Parker graduated high school, Reed married Sue, Franklin was born, fucking PROGRESSION. And people ate it up. So money flowed in. So they slowed the rate of change down and down and down until they're just another DC where everyone's the same forever and nothing sticks. I've got screencaps that pinpoint the writers' last stand against the final lockdown.
As for how that relates to pone, cont..

>>30107297
MLP got me into comics, and into /co/ as a hangout. I've read a lot of fuckin' Marvel since buying MLP #1. And guess what? Long before I even knew any of what I just said, I still much preferred the setting from before time froze. I gravitated towards characters obscure enough to get development. I was invested in the realism attached to dynamic action & permanent change.
I lost hype in pony after S4 because S4 was the fucking tits and I expected it to keep on escalating. I wanted necromancers, demon hordes, rogue sun gods. Instead things mellowed out, the map turned out to be a SoL generator, and the finale was about Twilight chasing some normie recolor through stuff I'd already seen. It was deflating. So I spent my usual pony hours on /co/ instead for a year.
Looking back, I get it. S4 was so hype because it was the culmination of of 4 seasons of steady stacked stories. S5 was the start of a new chapter. S6 was already SO much more exciting IMO, in terms of additions & upheavals. And S7 speaks for itself. Maud, Sweetie, fuckin' FLUTTERSHY. Prior episodes actually mattered. My investment paid off. Six seasons were worth sitting through.
It's such a good feel. And now that I realize it, I wanna go through it again with the normie recolor after all. She's already grown on me after S6. Starlight's like all of those mid-late 80s Marvel characters that were meant to take over from the old guard and never did because of fanboy editors and cold-footed stockholders. Only she might actually pull it off, the absolute madmare. I'll happily take the risk. Just like I did the Wedding, and the Crystal Empire, and Twilicorn, and the Castle, and Flurry, etc. etc.. I don't know what to expect and that's fucking exciting. What else is A Ride for?

>>30112280
>>30112288
But you can't compare the golden age of comics and now Anon, internet changed everything.
Also, ponies have always been SoL shit. I still can't believe hasbro did half the things they did in the show already Anon.
We're talking about Hasbro here, not a 'new challenger' like marvel was at the time.
That's because our generation got grabbed by animus. Rather, some of us had the chance to be born soon enough to know of those great cartoons like early CN stuff, but then everything went to shit, and every 'teenager' was obviously grabbed by the gook industry because anything coming from the west was utter shit. FiM showed all the weebs that western shit could be just as good, if not better. I mean, that's one of the reasons, and my take on it.

You're mostly right on your other points tho (also I'm not the guy you were responding to)

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>>30107491
Didn't even take that long.
The fuckin' OPENING of the FIRST EPISODE is textbook MAJESTIC EPOCH WITH MAGIC FIGHTS AND SHIT.
Like: literally. It was text in a book.

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>>30112121
>made 2 requests last thread that both got 4 "I want this too, seconding" replies
>neither got drawn
They were both silly impulse posts so I ain't exactly bitter, but fair's fair: you've got a point.

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>>30112327
Well that's to be expected since the board itself is dying.
And I didn't mean to come out as an 'anti-drawfag' or whatever, really.
I was just saying that drawfaggotry alone can't be expected to bring people in.

>>30104504
>*bronies want what they want
ftfy
Oldfag /mlp/ used to ridicule those sad saps that would self-insert into everything. Now the whole board is nothing but.

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>>30112296
>But you can't compare the golden age of comics and now Anon, internet changed everything.
Oh I know & accept they're vastly different animals. And it's all still published canon, I'm fine with that. Just saying I would've quite liked to see a Marvel Universe where the Power Pack succeeded the Fantastic Four, Cyclops retired to be a family man, the countless waves of New Mutants actually amounted to something, etc.. (Most of) these characters simply were not fookin' built for this eternal youth shit and it's been showing for quite a while.
Also Golden Age was the 30s. The cutoff point I'm talking about was 1989, after the Bronze Age ended. And if anything internet makes real time all the more viable, people can read the classics whenever they want.
>Also, ponies have always been SoL shit.
It's also always been fantasy/adventure, but that's neither here nor there. The point is I was actually wrong to want it to go full Anime, the SoL stuff is just as necessary. If I'd realized that sooner I'd have enjoyed S5 & 6 more on my first viewing. The balance between fantastic & mundane is ultimately what makes both so satisfying (much like 60s Marvel now that I think about it...).
>We're talking about Hasbro here, not a 'new challenger' like marvel was at the time.
I'm a consumer. Every show on the market is a challenger to one another. A challenger for my precious time, money, support & memory-space. Pone's winning by a hefty margin and now I know why.

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>>30112353
>i-im not a brony! im an oldfag from /b/

>>30112373
>comics
oh well, that's what I meant by golden age really, I guess I should've said 'marvel's goden age'. I'm not too into comics, I only read some spidey and xmen shit, or used to.

>SoL
Yeah dw you're not the only one saying that they'd prefer it being adventure etc. I also think that from time to time, but like you said there's a reason SoL sells.
Also I think that if they did it and we actually had entire seasons full of lore and epic adventures, the quality would've dropped insanely fast, and power creep etc would've shown by season 3 already. Idk. I want adventures but if I /really/ feel like that, I can just read some fics or greens about that, and go back to watching pones acting like cute pones doing retarded SoL shit right after it.

>>30112397
>but if I /really/ feel like that, I can just read some fics or greens about that
The same could be said about SoL episodes desu.
Pone's great because it juxtaposes both. We care about the action because the SoL fleshes out the cast, and we care about the SoL because it builds up to action.

>"If you have the characters over, and you put them in the angle, the angle will be over as well. You build everything around the characters. And once you put characters that are over into storylines, then the storylines will automatically be over." - some faggy emo twink who landed a very cushty writing job

>>30112288
>S6 was already SO much more exciting IMO, in terms of additions & upheavals
Name some

>>30111992
>If generals were banned on 4chan, absolutely nothing of value would be lost.
Define "generals".
It seems to me that your vague definitions is used on purpose just to troll.

Surely you can't have us discuss various topics of previous seasons for the billionth time?
People don't want to read the same arguments, even if it's from a new shithead, over and over.

Who would ever stay to discuss:
1) Do you think Twilight was really angry with Spike in episode blabla.
2) Does Unicorn have softer hooves than earth ponies considering their horn seem softer.
3) Can all here on /mlp/ agree that the mass of the sun is smaller than the mass of Equestria?

>>30112035
>People become comfortable in their generals, and they don't leave them
If they don't leave their generals, it's because *your* shitty fucked up arguments is of no interest to anyone.

Stop blaming others because nobody wants to read the retarded topics you start.

Learn how to listen. Meet people face to face. See their expression as you start talking shitty stupid things nobody wants to hear about.

That should teach you how to interact with people. With that knowledge someone may want to speak with you and you can stop blaming Generals instead of the idiot in the mirror.

>>30112814
Generals are reoccurring threads that request discussion, images, and stories of a broad topic. For example, Plane Ponies is a general. Why? Because it's a broad topic, its discussion and image dump, and a new one reappears as soon as the old one hits bump limit. However, threads such as "Why was spike giving Twilight a bath in Winter Wrap Up" are not generals because they prompt one specific thing, in this case hypothetical answers to a question. Once the thread falls off the active list, discussion does not immediately continue.

>>30112814
Anon... these guys want to remove greentexts.
Of course they're not serious.

They're not here to debate, they're here to piss us off.

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>>30112280
>>30112288
I'm glad you didn't keep it short desu, it's an interesting take. Always nice to see among all the shit here there's still a legit appreciation of the show and the love for it.
Interesting that the MLP comics got you into comics as a whole too. I imagine at the time you quite liked Comics 1-8? Twilight fought Chrysalis in one arc and in the other the Nightmare was essentially raging war on Equestria.

Besides the point though, it's one of the things I really enjoy about MLP too. How 6 Seasons ago, from the first time we see her, we see Rainbow Dash talking about her dream to join the Wonderbolts. And 6 Seasons later, with steps taken and lessons learned, she got in and now she's a regular. She's literally living the dream. It's heartwarming to see, and there are a lot of Ponies we've seen go through similar. Fluttershy just a few episodes ago manifested hers. Maud got her Rocktorate and moved to Ponyville, CMC earned their marks, we've seen a lot.

>>30112280
>>30112288
>Big post that starts out well, and then loses focus and fails to get to the point.
It seem you like change. Yet most people went berserk when Twilight became an Alicorn. Many didn't like her getting a castle instead of an old treehouse. Many doesn't like that CMC grows up and that the era of them worrying about CM is over. And so on.

All changes will be bad in one way or another as it closes a door to one set of stories, even if they help create a foundation for a new set.

For all content-creators (film, books, fanfics) it basically boils down to: Do I give my audience what they expect and look forward to, or do I surprise them by giving them something they never expect and in many cases doesn't want?

Few series can get away with Bobby Ewing stepping out of the shower to tell his wife she been dreaming for 40+ episodes, so change is permanent and with every change a part of the audience will disappear. Unless your change causes hype, it will not attract a new audience, so change is pretty much just an excuse for people to admit their feelings changed and they're no longer interested in the show.

>>30112353
>Blah blah blah, glorious days of old, shitty newfags today.

So what you are saying is that you feel excluded?
You feel you belong to a small minority nobody cares about?
You want some affirmative action to cater for your minority feels?

>>30112850
>They're not here to debate, they're here to piss us off.
That would make for a logical explanation.
Peoplw with emotions are forced to share them in one way or another.
At first I believed they had some valid emotions but they probably just wants to have a laugh at our expense.

>"Ban generals, hurr hurr durr!" (lolzor)
Why?
>"Cancer!!! hurr hurr durr!" (lmao)

>>30101608
Good post! You really got that leech riled up. Hit a soft spot no doubt.

Just before your post he felt like an emperor commanding his minions.
Just after he felt like an emperor with no clothes.

Yeah, I'm talking about >30112114 but the troll doesn't deserve a (yo).

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>>30100141
im from 2013

>>30112949
I don't wanna sound too crazy or autistic, but IMO there's some kind of plot going on to destroy what's left of the board.
Still no idea who they are, or where do they come from, maybe even from here idk, must be a discord group of 4-5 persons.
I'd guess it's /pol/, /mlpol/, reddit or... idk.
It started with the cuckshed, then we got a spike in shitposting, then we got the horseporn and scat threads and now we have our daily 'wtf my board is shit now ban generals and greens and eqg and blablabla'
And whenever you try to actually discuss with them, you find out that they're either 'really new' or absolutely retarded, whether it's an act or not, I still don't know.

Am I nuts?

>>30112842
A good definition so I concede that you know what you're talking about.
What I don't get is the logic behind what's "good or bad" when it comes to threads.

People will waste their time with stuff that captivates them for one reason or another.
Be it fascination/curiosity, friendship/community, sex or to ventilate hate/frustration.

Generals is not just a way to advertise a certain topic, it's also advertises a community and sets a tone.
But it doesn't stop haters to turn a thread into a flame-fest. So generals aren't safe space.
It's just a way for a dwindling community to find people of the same mindset (and invites people who hate that mindset).

As 6 years of topics are used up and worn down, all that is left is throwing the same old comments in a general while waiting for a worthwhile topic to appear. At least nobody can complain if I praise waifu X for the thousand time in a general dedicated to that waifu.

Someone discussing an old topic (like a scene from an old episode) will get treated with verbal chemotherapy for being a newfag who missed the previous 20 threads, regarding the topic. (That the last one was over a year ago doesn't matter.)

>>30112975
>Some people have shitposting at /mlp/ as a hobby. Crazy thought?

It's a big world so it's not impossible but it's unlikely for the following reason.
Feeling horny you look at porn and jerk off. Afterwards you're no longer interested in porn.
Feeling annoyed you troll and flame. Afterwards you rather meet up with friends and like-minded people.

* Trolling is a fleeting interest and a small group would have a hard time to do it efficiently vs all topics, since it requires a lot of hours invested.

Supporters of something often unite in their hatred vs the opposition. It's a lot simpler to hate the opposition than it is to explain why you like something. (Sports team and Politics as an example.)
People who hate /mlp/ need to have a rival cartoon or social group to fetch their shitposters from.

I can't see any large group that can unite in hate vs MLP and inspire mninions to come here to perform destructive shitposting. (Early on yes, but not now during season 7, it's too old.)

So I would presume it's mostly various locals. They no longer like the board, but they have nowhere else to go. This type of "hate" you can also see in weak people who tries to break up with their gf/wife but doesn't have the guts to just come out and tell it how it is.

So they start resentful arguments and shitstorms as a way of making it easier for them to break up and let go.

Only somebody who has no idea how 4chan works thinks generals are good for a board, period.

Anybody who disagrees is just mad that somebody dare challenge whatever general they've made to be their safe space where no one else dares to tread. And fuck you faggots.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if every single fucking person ITT defending generals is a so called "content creator", aka a fucking lowest of the low writer who gets off on trying to be horse famous on the absolute lowest level

>>30113105
Anon, I'm talking about barneyfag level of autists here, not just 4-5 random people, but 4-5 people that actually wants us removed from the internet.
And people like that still exist today, obviously.

I don't know Anon. All of this in such a short amount of time?
I don't like conspiracy theories, but I don't believe in coincidences like that either.

I mean we'll be sure about it in another couple months, I guess.

>>30112786
Off the top of my head: New alicorn & all the implications that brings, extrapolation on dragon culture, ChangelingsChangelingsChangelings, probably more I'm forgetting.
S5 finally gave me Griffons. Which I appreciate, but it's 1v3. There was also more personal character-specific stuff like the CMC blowoff and Moondancer, but if we're counting that S6 had Trixie, AJ backstory, Flutterfam, Dash becoming a Wonderbolt, G A B B Y, etc.. I guess I'm also omitting S5's biggest contribution of Starlight herself but like I sad I didn't think much of her until S6 development, so it cancels out.

>>30113130
>I don't like conspiracy theories, but I don't believe in coincidences like that either.
That's because it's human nature to try and find complicated patterns in stuff. It's one of those things that make our species superior to all other animals.
Problems arise when there are no patterns but we still find them. (Example: Astrology.)

I believe in the hive-mind. A lot of people will fall in and follow unless they have a specific destination. Many follow for shits and giggles, ready to jump off at any moment but they still follow.
This may look like a conspiracy but it's actually a coincidence. Enough people happened to gravitate around something causing it to spread like wildfire and become a topic of conversation.
The music business has for many decades realized the importance in being played everywhere, in order to create an interest for your product. Many great songs have died, due to lack of promotion. Shit from famous people can succeed because they are famous.

What I'm trying to say is that if people get into a mood they will follow suit. Let's take a *bland and boring* threadstart as an example; some semi-serious topic most people don't give a shit about. (And you can test this yourself looking for new threads.)
If I post something *really fun* as the 2nd post, people will follow suit. It will set the tone for the thread as people draws inspiration from each other to make more funny remarks.
If I post a *thought inspiring* analysis as the 2nd post, people will get inspired to come up with more and better analysis based on their own experience.
All this mixed with shitposts from those who refuse to join but rather ruin.

>>30112903
The point was that MLP feels real, because like reality effects follow causes and input matters. If you were waiting on something else lemme know, I'll do what I can to provide.
>It seem you like change.
Oversimplificaiton IMO. I like change that's treated like it matters. Continuity, in other words. Otherwise why am I watching this and not Spongebob?
>Yet most people went berserk when Twilight became an Alicorn.
I thought that was silly then I think it's silly now. Then again I always assumed it was a possibility anyway.
>Many didn't like her getting a castle instead of an old treehouse.
Thought that was silly too desu, if less overblown. Disasters happen, settings change, you take the good with the bad.
>Many doesn't like that CMC grows up
What response do you even expect? That's life. If you expected them to stay blank flanked toddlers forever and ever just because I don't know what to say.
>All changes will be bad in one way or another as it closes a door to one set of stories
That's the risk vs reward. Opening the other doors instead would do the exact same thing and piss off a whole other group of people. You're fucked either way. That analogy's like saving up ammo & supplies in vidya only to beat the final boss and still not have used Any, because with this mindset you're just going to keep all the doors closed forever anyway.
>Do I give my audience what they expect and look forward to
Which to me was Twilicorn, Flurry, Bug Jesus etc., so there's the impasse. ^:)

>>30112831
>Stop blaming others because nobody wants to read the retarded topics you start.
I doubt he starts anything. People who whine about the state of the board rarely ever contribute. They're just leeches unhappy with their meal.

>>30113125
The only people who think generals hurt 4chan are people who use the front page, and they are the ones who don't understand how to use 4chan.

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Return the Fluffy Ponies.

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>>30113451
I don't think you even know what you're talking about. No, not at all.

You're probably confusing my earlier mention of the word "home page" with "front page". Kill yourself.

>>30113473
unironically this

>>30112850
Your entitled and self-righteous circlejerk disgusts me more than the generals.
You deserve getting abused at home and in school.

>>30113617
>Hate, anger, resentment, disgust, provocation, more hate...
Way to prove his point! It's so spot on that I suspect he posted it himself.

Then again, the haters are filled with emotions instead of logic, so you probably just a whiner.

How about we remove the catalog and bring back forced nonoko so the shitposters and newfags can't find their threads as easily?

>>30113831
>Remove catalog, pinning, and probably anything else that helps structure the posts.
Ratio of shitposts would increase even more.

Shitposters doesn't look for threads, they just piss all over. So they will continue to post X posts per hour.

Those patiently looking for a good way to contribute will be slowed down and post a lot less. Or not at all as they move on to a place where they can spend their time more efficiently.

>>30113720
Fan of the fandom

>>30100740
ears

desu >>30113021
And then >>30113275
Just proves the whole conspiracy thing
Welp, we had good time boys.

>>30113573
t. Mad newfag

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>>30112857
Hell yeah I loved those comics. The writing made me legit smile, Price's art was insanely expressive, the reading experience itself was fun enough to make me want to read more comics in general.
I still enjoy & buy the comics but more out of a sense of obligation, since they it was my first. They ended up undoing what was cool about their take on Nightmare IMO, and that first fucking Sombra arc was the turning point where I realized "ooooookay maybe these shouldn't be canon" (which the further Sombra arcs compounded; something about Sombra makes for really rage-inducing comics).

>>30100141
everything after EqG is fanfiction tier shit so people left because the show wasn't the same afterwards

>>30100141
>What happened to this board?
>Is anyone from 2012 still around?

Yeah I've been here since this boards inception and leaving /co/

Shit happened because faust the fucking cunt caused the scruffening. I stopped watching the show midway s4 because it became a chore and I no longer had a desire to watch. Can't forget about the mass exodus to /mlpchan/ now has been swallowed up by ponychan

Threads and shitposting that i miss:
>tulpa threads and their creepy pasta
>milky best fetish
>Ass worship
>mare and filly vag general
>dj special k weekly hawaii radio threads playing whatever we requested
>late night porn threads including real horse pussy
>the pedo ya es hora faggots


all in all fuck faust for coming here and causing the scruffening . RIP /mlp/ now moving at the speed of 1 post per hour

>>30114344
Funny, I buy all the main comics too. It was similar in that I started doing it and then thought I shouldn't stop.
The thing is, with 50+ issues I haven't actually read past #11 even despite having them all. I suppose without knowing they're really canon there's less incentive.
I only buy the main arc though, Friendship is Magic Series. Legends of Magic too, but that's a recent addition

>>30114970
S4 to this day is one of the best seasons, fair weather fans were never fans to begin with, they were trend hoppers trying to cash in on a meme

Idk

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>all these people defending generals
you clearly don't understand how this site is supposed to work

>>30117980
>(snivel) you clearly don't understand (cry) how this site is supposed to work (bwuaaa)

You had a vision.
We had a will.
Battle ensued.
We won!

Long Live the General!

(IN-YOUR-FACE!)

>>30118007
what a witty comeback. only a true "i never have any actual arguments" (aka troll) would post something like that

>>30118013
>300+ posts in this threads. A lot of them are arguments.
>Post #305 claims the other PoV doesn't understand.
>But post #305 doesn't give any argument whatsoever.
>Post #306 gives #305 a dose of it's own medicine.
>Post #307 keeps whining.

And we should trust people like you to come up with some interesting replies to replace the generals?
I think not.

>>30118036
>300+ posts in this threads. A lot of them are arguments.
>and not a single good argument that would give general a reason to exist
even i know one reason to make a general. maybe lurk more for a change?
>But post #305 doesn't give any argument whatsoever.
i did, you illiterate fuck. is one sentence the best you can do?

>>30100141

I was here in 2012 to part of 2013, but I only came to try and derail threads with doubles with those other shitposters.

inb4 someone asks why i'm browsing rn; its because i need to add more ponies to my filter.

ITT people give real reasons why generals actually make the board slower, and generalfags deflect it with petty insults

Same shit different day

>>30118045
>i did, you illiterate fuck. is one sentence the best you can do?
You clearly don't understand how this site is supposed to work

>>30118069
>said guy defending generals
Ctrl+C/V
>>30118065
nothing more to expect from fags who never spend any time on actual lurking

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>>30118079
>Lurk more - because I don't want to debate.
I learnt how to debate from the undisputed master.
(At least you claim you deliver great arguments.)

I used the exact same argument he did... he should be proud.
But he was not. He was sad and lost control... C and V to be precise.

Hint: Using pics from a sitcom instead of pony was a dead giveaway from the start you were an outside troll just trying to ruin the /mlp/ community.
Bye bye failfag!

>>30118057
So fucking cool. I want you to stay around. We need more cool guys who dislike things and talk about it.

>>30118110
>i won't lurk because i'm a lazy piece of shit
i'll actually start a discussion with you if you tell me that one reason for a general to exist. the one that was discussed many times before and agreed as legit by both sides
a tr00 4channer like you should obviously have heard of it already