4chan - the Internet hate machine

[Spectacle Enjoyer]

I was going to write up a long post about my frustrations with how shitty the site is now(and continues to get year after year), but I just can't muster the will. The fun is gone, the mods are jeets and trannies, the schizophrenic spammers run free shitting up their thread topic of choice and shills are untouchable.

What I can say is that 4chan is a great analogy for the effects of mass migration.

 

[30+GameOvers]

I was going to write up a long post about my frustrations with how shitty the site is now(and continues to get year after year), but I just can't muster the will. The fun is gone, the mods are jeets and trannies, the schizophrenic spammers run free shitting up their thread topic of choice and shills are untouchable.

What I can say is that 4chan is a great analogy for the effects of mass migration.

Welcome to the club. I went over to 8chan when 4chan turned to shit, and then here once every altchan died out post 8chan-shutdown, including nu-8chan itself. The best thing you can do is just watch from the sidelines, things WILL get worse and laughing about it is the best feeling in the world. I didn't abandon 4chan or 8chan, they abandoned me by the choices the site made, so I treat both accordingly.

Funny that you mention immigration, because I noticed that the only active userbase 8chan now has are 4chan refugees that stayed over from the 4chan hack, meanwhile a bulk of the active userbase 4chan now has are redditors or social media tourists who want to say the nigger word. Oh wait, that's banned, I guess they want to goon or post schizo-spam semi anonymously. Either way, just like with mass migration, it was caused by the people at the top, not the people minding their business but they are the ones who got to suffer, something to think about.

 

[CEO of Autism]

/vr/ is depressingly bad after the hack. The board went from excessive moderation to no moderation at all, and now schizos and trolls roam free. Every day I have to hide a bunch of low quality threads on top of the ones that get auto-filtered, to the point that at any time there's always 50-75 threads hidden. 4chan can never achieve a healthy middle approach in terms of moderation, it's always too much or too little. I wish 8/vr/ wasn't completely and utterly dead.

 

[SIMON THE PIEMAN]

Every day I have to hide a bunch of low quality threads on top of the ones that get auto-filtered, to the point that at any time there's always 50-75 threads hidden.

I've had an extensive filter list at one point on /v/ and it also resulted in the majority of the board being hidden. Eventually I realized that what is left isn't any better either and that the people who were shitting up the board have no issues going in the other threads and attempting to shit these up either. Truly a jeet website.

 

[fuckingIncredable]

A 37 minute long infobomb about how Lowtax banning coomers/nonces/coomer nonces and shuffling them off toward 4chan led to the AMERICAN CENTURY of HUMILIATION just dropped
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jw7SpzaYSnY

This video is ass, the creator is a turbo-leftie (or sub-human if you prefer)

 

[30+GameOvers]

I've had an extensive filter list at one point on /v/ and it also resulted in the majority of the board being hidden. Eventually I realized that what is left isn't any better either and that the people who were shitting up the board have no issues going in the other threads and attempting to shit these up either. Truly a jeet website.

That was the case with /v/ for over 10 years now, even before Gamergate. For some reason, that board always attracted the least stable retards on the entire site, then once the posters who actually made quality posts all decided to leave it was over. Filters won't do shit if there is zero good posts to be found in the first place, there really isn't any reason to go there for any reason unless some big release or announcement is made since that tends to bring in traffic other than the schizos and the usual retards.

/vr/ is depressingly bad after the hack. The board went from excessive moderation to no moderation at all, and now schizos and trolls roam free. Every day I have to hide a bunch of low quality threads on top of the ones that get auto-filtered, to the point that at any time there's always 50-75 threads hidden. 4chan can never achieve a healthy middle approach in terms of moderation, it's always too much or too little. I wish 8/vr/ wasn't completely and utterly dead.

/vr/ has been dead ever since they institute that rule where you could talk about games released post 2001. That killed the board permanently, before there was at least some comfort knowing you could talk about certain kinds of games in peace, now you can genuinely make threads about Shadow the Hedgehog or 50 Cent: Bulletproof if you want and it's only going to get worse. This lead to the board attracting the same deadbrain crowd as /v/, just talking about 6th gen games from their childhood now instead of proper retro titles. The /v/alkanization itself as a whole has been a disaster, /vrpg/ and /vst/ can be good since these boards are hyperfocused on discussion of only certain kinds of games and they naturally attract only fans of these games, but I'm not sure I would trade these in if the cost is making the other video game boards infinitely shittier.

 

[harbringer883]

/v/alkanization

kek

 

[Coolio55]

/vr/ has been dead ever since they institute that rule where you could talk about games released post 2001. That killed the board permanently, before there was at least some comfort knowing you could talk about certain kinds of games in peace, now you can genuinely make threads about Shadow the Hedgehog or 50 Cent: Bulletproof if you want and it's only going to get worse. This lead to the board attracting the same deadbrain crowd as /v/, just talking about 6th gen games from their childhood now instead of proper retro titles. The /v/alkanization itself as a whole has been a disaster, /vrpg/ and /vst/ can be good since these boards are hyperfocused on discussion of only certain kinds of games and they naturally attract only fans of these games, but I'm not sure I would trade these in if the cost is making the other video game boards infinitely shittier

I'm sick of this oldtroon cope but I would accept /v2k/. It would make talking about franchises around the turn of the millenium awkward though, arbitrarily cutting off certain titles.

 

[Waffle Iron]

/vr/ has been dead ever since they institute that rule where you could talk about games released post 2001. That killed the board permanently, before there was at least some comfort knowing you could talk about certain kinds of games in peace, now you can genuinely make threads about Shadow the Hedgehog or 50 Cent: Bulletproof if you want and it's only going to get worse

I know it's stupid but splitting up /vr/ by generations wouldve been better. There are very few people that are still around on 4chan that played <2001 games, just a few old people and kids that are into retro gaming. The group that played 2001-whatever they allow now is far bigger and obviously overwhelms the old users. At the same time those 2001-whatever gamers are only a fraction of the kids that grew up with fortnite that are posting on /v/ now. So they could use their own board.
Having boards for good games while the kids have their slapfight in /v/ about (current game) would've been for the best.

I'm sick of this oldtroon cope but I would accept /v2k/. It would make talking about franchises around the turn of the millenium awkward though, arbitrarily cutting off certain titles.

/a/ allowed for fate/stay night discussion even though the primary source, and what was most discussed, was the VN, not the manga or anime. If jannies were not entirely retarded they could allow some flexibility in moderation. A game like parasite eve would allow PSP discussion, just as long as the PSP crowd doesnt push the PS1 crowd out of the thread.

 

[Jason_Cruiser]

I know it's stupid but splitting up /vr/ by generations wouldve been better. There are very few people that are still around on 4chan that played <2001 games, just a few old people and kids that are into retro gaming. The group that played 2001-whatever they allow now is far bigger and obviously overwhelms the old users. At the same time those 2001-whatever gamers are only a fraction of the kids that grew up with fortnite that are posting on /v/ now. So they could use their own board.

They should extend the rules to all 7th gen console games released in the 2000s in addition to handheld systems like the DS and PSP. Some of those games are like 20 years old it's dumb that you can't talk about Castlevania dawn of sorrow without making a "GBA" Aria thread first and just shifting the convo into the DS games. The mods are too scared to admit the 360 is retro even though it's been 20 years since it's release.

2001-whatever they allow now is far bigger and obviously overwhelms the old users

You can only talk about the same handful of 8bit games so many times before you run out of things to say. Most of what can be said has been said. Unless new stuff comes out like a translation patch there's just going to be little talk about with the Megadrive or NES.

 

[30+GameOvers]

You can only talk about the same handful of 8bit games so many times before you run out of things to say. Most of what can be said has been said. Unless new stuff comes out like a translation patch there's just going to be little talk about with the Megadrive or NES.

What are you talking about, faggot? Many of these games still have active modding and romhacking communities, not to mention exploits and other little tidbits to talk about here or there. You know, like this little known indie game called DOOM that still has an active modding community. Plus, these games are timeless, so no, "most of what can be said" hasn't been said and never will be.

 

[Jason_Cruiser]

What are you talking about, faggot? Many of these games still have active modding and romhacking communities, not to mention exploits and other little tidbits to talk about here or there. You know, like this little known indie game called DOOM that still has an active modding community. Plus, these games are timeless, so no, "most of what can be said" hasn't been said and never will be.

Most what you said all have their own general threads, that's only a few threads out of the 100 or so that'll be on the catalog at all times. Speed running only matters if it's game you know. Tricks found in random games are just going to end as a slide thread unless you make a general for speed running. There's no harm in letting DS or PsP games onto the board.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Most what you said all have their own general threads, that's only a few threads out of the 100 or so that'll be on the catalog at all times. Speed running only matters if it's game you know. Tricks found in random games are just going to end as a slide thread unless you make a general for speed running. There's no harm in letting DS or PsP games onto the board.

Wrong, these new rules attract /v/ shitters that spam the catalog with their crappy threads and that pushes older threads out. /vr/ used to have standards and a niche and that's what set up apart from /v/, problem is that now /vr/ is just /v2/ for an older set of games. DS or PSP can have their own general on /vg/, if there is even enough demand for them, they are not retro and not in the spirit of retro gaming either.

 

[Coolio55]

they are not retro and not in the spirit of retro gaming either.

Oldtroons, I...

Of course, the problem is everything other than 4cuck turning into India's no. 1 social network.
Imagine being unable to differentiate between PSP and modern gaming.
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E: If more people want to discuss Shadow the Hedgehog than licensed mascot SNES platformers - why should they all go into a /vg/ general?
Put obsolete games from before 1997 into a containment thread instead of shitting up the retro board.

 

[harbringer883]

they are not retro and not in the spirit of retro gaming either.

I saw someone make a thread for fallout 3 on /vr/, that place is not serious anymore.

 

[W@rui]

 

[30+GameOvers]

Oldtroons, I...
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Of course, the problem is everything other than 4cuck turning into India's no. 1 social network.
Imagine being unable to differentiate between PSP and modern gaming.
<REDDIT SPACE
E: If more people want to discuss Shadow the Hedgehog than licensed mascot SNES platformers - why should they all go into a /vg/ general?
Put obsolete games from before 1997 into a containment thread instead of shitting up the retro board.

If you can't differentiate on what makes /vr/ different from /v/ then you clearly never went there, because it's not just the type of games they discuss. See, this is the problem, ever since the floodgates opened for all the /v/ refugees and tourists to come on thru, the board completely lost it's identity and now all the zoomies just want to talk about games from their childhood. Since you're clearly young, there is a big difference between retro gaming and "retro" gaming, and it was decided that the turn of millenia was the cut-off point for a reason. If you don't get it, you never will.

I saw someone make a thread for fallout 3 on /vr/, that place is not serious anymore.

Worse, I've seen TF2 threads there when /vm/ exists. That board is completely fucked, glad I haven't really visited since as it would just break my heart.

 

[harbringer883]

Worse, I've seen TF2 threads there when /vm/ exists. That board is completely fucked, glad I haven't really visited since as it would just break my heart.

Well, to 15 year olds and indians, TF2 is literally a hekking "retro oldfag game".

 

[Waffle Iron]

Some of those games are like 20 years old

Yes, and that makes the games of the generation before them 25-30 years old. The number of people that discuss gen 6-7 games is far greater than of the older generations and push them out. The number of people that played FO3 compared to FO1 is far greater. Even if FO3 is 18 years old.

 

[Coolio55]

If you can't differentiate on what makes /vr/ different from /v/ then you clearly never went there, because it's not just the type of games they discuss. See, this is the problem, ever since the floodgates opened for all the /v/ refugees and tourists to come on thru, the board completely lost it's identity and now all the zoomies just want to talk about games from their childhood. Since you're clearly young, there is a big difference between retro gaming and "retro" gaming, and it was decided that the turn of millenia was the cut-off point for a reason. If you don't get it, you never will.

No, the cutoff date is 1990 or whenever they stopped making Atari and black box NES games.
Steam is filled with games that wouldn't be out of place on SNES or Megadrive. Those consoles are practically contemporary.
If you cab't tell the difference between modern games and oldschool arcade games, I can't help you.