Are 4chan and similar image boards really all that much better than reddit?

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@Mr.Miyagi put it pretty well. I just wanted to add that 8chan was much better than 4chan once upon a time but rotted away to the same degree as well. The cause of death was a bit different: You see, when the initial split over Gamergate happened, a lot of the talent went over to 8chan. This led to a culture of "enlightened anons" who hated 4chan and thought they were superior, not unlike how 4channers look down on redditors. This was true for a time, 8chan was the place to be if 4chan censored something or if you wanted actual discussions with oldfags. It helped that you could make your own board there, that meant that instead of hoping that jannies won't abuse their powers, you could become the janny and create a board...
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I don't think reddit is as filled with people substituting being a dick on the internet for a personality.
That's what I hate about 4chan. It feels like every board is full of people who hate the hobby the board is designed around. /v/ had to make like 4 separate sub-boards just to contain the problem and still failed. /tv/ hates whatever new thing is popular to an asinine level. /mu/ does the same thing but for music.
It's filled with the most contrarian autists on the planet and they aren't even funny stupid like a lot of redditors are.
 
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They're effectively the same demographics at this point, only separated by the lack of usernames. Honestly, I've spent less and less time on 4chan each year that passes due to the continued move of topics into generals, which simply don't work with an anonymous culture, because it leads to genuine schizophrenics devoting 18 hours a day to shitting up discussion about a singular topic, clique-y drama that bleeds over from Discords and off-site clubs vying for popularity, all alongside moderation that is both toothless to support genuine discussion and simultaneously overzealous in sweeping/banning people for anything they personally dislike, similar to the petty kings of Reddit in their subs. It's just shit, even more shit than it was before when it was always shit. You either have totally disposable content that is no longer generated for humor but solely to incense people with demoralizing ragebait, or you have people who generate 2000 threads on the same visual novel in a row, posting the same messages day in and day out without ever saying anything at all.

Choosing between the two sites nowadays is like choosing between cyanide and arsenic.
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why they would give those sad sacks of shit a board.
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The original intention behind /r9k/ was interesting, since it was based off some script the xkcd guy made for his IRC, and the board was basically an experiment to incentivize original content by temp banning people if they made a post that had already been made (so you couldn't just spout "lol" or a meme phrase). But eventually that got undone and the board culture just devolved into people talking about how much they hated themselves and became an incel spawning pool. I guess at this point you could say it serves as a containment board, but I don't even know if that concept has ever been effective.
 
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Mr.Miyagi said:
They're effectively the same demographics at this point, only separated by the lack of usernames. Honestly, I've spent less and less time on 4chan each year that passes due to the continued move of topics into generals, which simply don't work with an anonymous culture, because it leads to genuine schizophrenics devoting 18 hours a day to shitting up discussion about a singular topic, clique-y drama that bleeds over from Discords and off-site clubs vying for popularity, all alongside moderation that is both toothless to support genuine discussion and simultaneously overzealous in sweeping/banning people for anything they personally dislike, similar to the petty kings of Reddit in their subs. It's just shit, even more shit than it was before when it was always shit. You either have totally disposable content that is no longer generated for humor but solely to incense people with demoralizing ragebait, or you have people who generate 2000 threads on the same visual novel in a row, posting the same messages day in and day out without ever saying anything at all.

Choosing between the two sites nowadays is like choosing between cyanide and arsenic.

The original intention behind /r9k/ was interesting, since it was based off some script the xkcd guy made for his IRC, and the board was basically an experiment to incentivize original content by temp banning people if they made a post that had already been made (so you couldn't just spout "lol" or a meme phrase). But eventually that got undone and the board culture just devolved into people talking about how much they hated themselves and became an incel spawning pool. I guess at this point you could say it serves as a containment board, but I don't even know if that concept has ever been effective.
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I think this is the longest post you have posted yet.
 
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