Pay no mind if you're not into academic 4chan meta. -- I've

"I recently took time out of my day to look at forums all around the internet, though I mainly checked out ones that were populated with people from imageboards as I have come across a couple in the past few months.
Forums have always had their issues, but when I started to compare the forums that were mainly populated with anonymous board users with forums that were around video games or hobbies I noticed a distinct difference in posting style.

For simplicities sake I would say there are three types of forums.

General forums: These are forums that are loosely based around some concept, but the main draw is the community that is on the forums.
Hobby specific forums: These are the forums that are strictly about the hobby, game, show, book or something similar. Though they can have a community the community is always second to the actual hobby.
Trouble-shooting forums. Things that are designed entirely for question and answer.

Forums that draw most of their user-base from anonymous imageboards are odd because a lot of the users seem to carry a heavy ego. I assume this is mainly because the forums are so similar to threads you would find on one-off imageboards like u b o a chan or smaller *chan boards, that the only people who post are the ones who want to hear the applause of someone else.

But this got me thinking. What is the point of joining a “general” forum? The post quality is rarely incredibly high and most the conversations that go on for more than a page end up to be either arguments or just chat-rooms. Things better deserving of an IRC or Discord group.

The anonymous imageboard or textboard has the special ability to be essentially timeliness, excluding things such as memes or large events in the past. I can leave wizchan for 3 months and (granted nothing out of the ordinary happened) everything is the same. For forums if I could notice certain users post counts go up, and other users leaving or joining. Forums give off the impression of time passing, inherently.
This is why I feel imageboards are so easy to lose years in. For me to thoroughly feel “caught-up” I’ve already browsed for a long time, all I have to do is lurk for a day or two and then I can jump back in as if nothing had ever changed.

Trouble-shooting forums are easy to understand as they are usually user-driven. It is definitely a format where experienced users guide people who usually come and go in short succession.

So what is the appeal of forums over something like chatrooms? Is it the more organized layout? The aura that things will be higher quality?
I know posts like this are usually just brushed off as “normalfags want to stroke their ego” but I feel the answer is a lot deeper.
bbs will rise again."

Game threads mostly fall into image threads I would theorize,
A roll thread puts your attention on an image.
A draw thread centers around creating images.
A risk thread centers around users reacting to an image.

The quest thread and a boardless risk thread(done with a text user interface) though make me think about reconsidering the third category into something broader... not sure what though...

I'm not sure. This information doesn't really even have much use other than on a theoretical level.
People will make the threads they want to make.

Alright. I'll add to it.
https://ghostbin.com/paste/jkjzb

I'll try and think up something else meta as well.

Just reading the OP should convince you that OP and everyone who contributes to this thread (or contributed to the last thread) is a fucking moron.

>>1527437
Plan to make more just for you.

>>1526854
This is an interesting take, and reminds me of an idea that I've been thinking about for a while. I think the thing about hobby forums, as compared to imageboard discussion, is the LACK of focus on identity. Imageboard culture prioritizes lurking and fitting in, enforcing this by refusing to discuss the topic of the board with a user who identifies themselves as an outsider. The lack of individual identification means that the users construct a collective identity. This isn't a bad thing; it is similar to what groups of friends do, as they feel out which topics they agree on, which can be disagreed on, and which they will not discuss, as well as the general tone of said discussion, but it does mean that establishing yourself as a member is a prerequisite for posting there—and it means that posters will tend to lower the risk of being called out by making low effort and/or template threads. Which can be fun, or we wouldn't be posting here. By contrast, on a hobby forum (particularly on forums for more niche hobbies), just wanting to post there identifies you as a member of their group. Your particular style of posting is unlikely to be the focus of attention; the discussion is about the topic, not the discussion itself. On an imageboard, though, the atmosphere is more geared towards socializing around the topic than productivity or debate.

One of my favourite forums to browse (though I don't post on it) is beyondthesprues.com/Forum. It is the complete opposite of imageboard culture; the members there unselfconsciously imagine fantasy vehicles, make models, drawings, and writings about them, and share them online. It has the DIY/grassroots feeling of a webring, with none of the bet-hedging irony of *chans.

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