What went wrong? Why is this board so shit? And yes this is

Here's a better question: If you dislike /vp/ why are you still here? Nothing's stopping you form leaving.

>>32383677
Basically it all went wrong when "just inject it :^)" rolled along. After that the whole board went to shit.

What do people see wrong with /vp/?

It's an entire image board devoted to pokemon, every stupid fucking aspect of pokemon gets discussed, is there something you want from this board that you don't get?

>>32383769
porn

>no mods and very little self moderation
>too narrow of a topic for varied discussion
>pokemon is one of the world's most popular children's franchise so it draws in underage who have little understanding on how chan culture works, do not report bait or low quality posts, and lower discussion
>community and lack of moderation drives off any original content makers (see drawthreads if you need an example)
>idiots who respond to namefags or tripfags and do not filter or report
>focus on e-celebs
>generals with little focus on the franchise itself (cringe threads, thinly veiled fetish thread, ect)

Honestly delete the board and only bring it back for pregame hype.

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>>32383677
This is a low news point
Everytime a main series game comes out


>New game rumour

STAGE1
>Pathernfag on the watch
>Hype builds up
>Official annoncement

STAGE2
>Hype train leaves the station
>New leaks / info once every three week on average
>Everyone thinks that /vp/ is some kind of source for pokemon info for some reason
>dormantpokefagawoken.exe
>The board strive on theories, fan art, speculation and fake for month from people from all over the internet

STAGE 3
>The games come out
>Everybody loves it until
>A majority reach the post game
>Turns out the games are never as good as we hoped them to be
>Disapointing content
>"This is the worst gen", "those remake sucks" memes starts
>Somehow the gen that was before the one that just ended gets a bump in popularity

STAGE 4

>The hype is dead
>/vp/ goes back this sub /a/ board with waifu shit and all kinds of faggotry
>There is now no more relevant post apart from the anime thread
>The board goes dark for 2/7 months
>New game rumour

It's always been like this on every pokemon based site since at least the Emerald days as far as I remember.


When will you learn

>>32383729
Yeah, but that mindset contributes to the board being shit. People don't leave and raise a stink about whatever they hate and thus shitpost which eventually makes the board's quality go down.

What we really need are new mods. I'd also suggest booting the gay threads and furry threads because they're just shitpost havens and don't actually contribute anything to the board.

>>32384293
also starterwars should be added to the "rule" about no genwars. They're just as bad and i'm so sick of seeing owlfags and anti-owl fags screeching at each other constantly.

>>32383729
>blaming it on injecters when they are the least cancerous tumor on /vp/

k e k

>>32384320
Yeah that goes without saying. I mean it's possible to have discussion about why you like a starter but holy fuck do those blow it out of proportion.

>>32383677
Nothing went wrong.

Pokemon is usually discussion worthy if the games have discussion worthy content or new game fever strikes.

Once they peter out of a game, there's not much to discuss.

>>32384335
Oops, meant to click >>32383733

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>>32383677
What do you think went wrong?

>>32383677
>We could have gotten a greentext story thread
>We could have gotten a "leak" thread to amuse ourselves with for shits and giggles
>We could have gotten a future game speculation thread
>We could have gotten a thread with original content
>We could have gotten a screencap worthy thread
>We could have gotten a storytime thread
>We could have gotten a thread dedicated to uncommonly discussed characters or pokemon
>We could have gotten a thread that explores the lore of the Pokemon world
>We could have gotten a thread discussing the soundtrack and music of Pokemon
>We could have gotten a thread talking about how to improve specific pokemon competitively.
>We could have gotten a wishlist thread for /vp/'s most wanted features
>We could have gotten a thread made just for OP's favorite pokemon whereupon he would be rewarded with fanart of his favorite pokemon

>but instead we got OP impotently crying, whining and bitching about The board' '''Problems''' like it raped him every day

>>32383800
>We cloud have gotten a Great post

>but instead we got OP impotently crying, whining and bitching about How Namefags are ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''Bad'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' like it raped him every day

>>32383729

Wow, such a grand suggestion, this definitely will improve the condition of our boards!

>All the decent people that want discussion leave

>Which leaves us with nothing but shitposters, furries and false flaggers

Happy happy fucking joy joy.

I really wish people would come up with something better than "hurr durr just leave the boards if you hate it that much".

>>32386141
It's not like a makes a difference.

>>32386152
>Tell one anon to leave because of shitposting even though you can report this
>I-It won't make a difference
>Tell another anon to leave because there's hardly anything to do in the boards post-game even though there's a chance for interesting threads to appear once in a while
>I-It won't make a difference
>Tell another anon to leave because he's not used to the furry images and that he should either get used to it or leave if he's such a sensitive twat, leaving us with the people that caused him to leave instead of outright reporting the images as well for the sake of those who want to be in these boards
>I-It won't make a difference
>Tell another anon to stop coming because false flaggers are ruining this place even though it might be temporary at best
>I-It won't make a difference

People should be taught how to handle the shit en masse in these boards, not to be shoo'd away.