/vp/ really needs to just die already. It's not just that the few remaining OC-producing threads have had a sharp decline in quality over the past year or two, but the gaps in the catalog left in between them by a lack of good posters and content has been filled by some of the worst sludge on the site.
Currently ongoing is some sort of slapfight turfwar between about half a dozen avatarfag attention whores and their orbiters, constantly invading and derailing threads they think they've spotted each other in, making threads about themselves or dedicated to hating their rival avatarfags, and blatantly samefagging as their own supporters or falseflagging as whichever other avatarfag pissed them off that day. I don't know the lore or backstory behind this circle, and even as a community watch enthusiast myself, you couldn't pay me to dig more into it, some things are just too retarded to be entertaining. The most retarded part is that they're all convinced that the other avatarfags are secretly jannies or something, and you'll see their underage newfag orbiters repeating this made-up nonsense whenever they pop up. Nevermind the fact that /vp/ doesn't even have janitors, and one look at the catalog can tell you that the mods check it maybe once a day at absolute most...
It usually goes something like this:
>avatarfag's post is deleted
"I knew it! [other avifag] is a janny that's trying to take me down, see how mine got deleted and theirs didn't?"
>the opposing avatarfag's post is deleted instead
"Wow, look how long it was left up before getting deleted, totally because they're a janny! It was deleted after someone else called them out, so clearly it's just to save face and not look like they're a janny!"
They all do this to each other, and clearly none of them know even the basics of how the site works. There's a glaceonfag, an ivysaurfag, a braixenfag, and a delcattyfag, maybe more but those are what I remember off of the top of my head. There are 5+ threads up about this shit at any given time, and it's been going on for a few months (though it's heated up more recently).
I think any poster involved in any side of this retarded flamewar, avatar or not, should be permabanned for violating GR2. It's a shame to see how far this board has fallen.