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/u/ has better generals

a guest May 6th, 2015 209 Never
  1. /u/ has better generals
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  3. Apr 07 21:06:36 <lewdchan>      We've always been at war with Reddit.
  4. Apr 07 21:07:13 <BEAM>  I ain't picking fights
  5. Apr 07 21:07:15 <Troid> wut
  6. Apr 07 21:07:33 <ThinMint>      >Final Solution for generals
  7. Apr 07 21:07:47 <ThinMint>      I don't know what you're talking about but it gives me a warm, tingly feeling inside
  8. Apr 07 21:08:11 <Troid> I wish it were so easy for me. maybe it's nice to feel confident just condemning all generals universally
  9. Apr 07 21:08:25 <Antarcticanon> I don't know about other boards, but the major issue with generals seems to be when they go on for too long, and start building microcultures within.
  10. Apr 07 21:08:27 <Kusanagi>      Raid from /b/ on /mlp/ I believe
  11. Apr 07 21:08:29 *       Aerolite (~Aerborne@mystery.shack) has joined
  12. Apr 07 21:08:29 *       ChanServ gives channel half-operator status to Aerolite
  13. Apr 07 21:08:57 <JustPX>        Antarcticanon: I'd say that's site-wide, it ALWAYS happens
  14. Apr 07 21:09:11 <Troid> I'd say you're wrong
  15. Apr 07 21:09:12 <JustPX>        I browse a dozen boards on 4chan, I've seen it on near all of them
  16. Apr 07 21:09:18 <ThinMint>      Troid, I don't believe they're all awful
  17. Apr 07 21:09:43 <JustPX>        not that they're bad, but that they get a concentrated group of users, and it can become a bit inclusive
  18. Apr 07 21:10:04 <Troid> it's been years since the madoka anime aired and /u/'s madoka generals are still a synthesis of on-topic discussion, image dumping, and even goddamn manga translation+editing
  19. Apr 07 21:10:08 <ThinMint>      I do believe that, on my homeboard, at least, that they are disproportionately bad and problem causing, and that the few 'okay' ones that exist would be equally okay as non-gernal threads
  20. Apr 07 21:10:20 <SenatorBufordFunkmuscle>       Well, those people start to see their little subculture as being separate and having its own rules and being outside the jurisdiction of the staff
  21. Apr 07 21:10:28 <Troid> and as much as I love /u/ I can't just say "oh well /u/ is so unique they have the only generals in the world that don't go to shit"
  22. Apr 07 21:10:29 <JustPX>        ThinMint: whats your homeboard
  23. Apr 07 21:10:32 <ThinMint>       /tg/
  24. Apr 07 21:10:35 <JustPX>        ah
  25. Apr 07 21:10:52 <ThinMint>      There are a couple of generals which are pretty inoffensive, like Traveller general
  26. Apr 07 21:10:56 <ThinMint>      which I frequent
  27. Apr 07 21:10:56 <Troid> but a general that still has content to discuss can succeed, probably more easily on a slow board than a fast one
  28. Apr 07 21:11:00 <ThinMint>      and then there's ERP general
  29. Apr 07 21:11:05 <Troid> a general that has nothing to talk about (homestuck) is the kind that goes to shit
  30. Apr 07 21:11:27 <JustPX>        MLPG too
  31. Apr 07 21:11:30 <Troid> but the problem with a thread like that is NOT the fact that it's a general. the problem is that it's a thread with no content to discuss.
  32. Apr 07 21:11:42 <Troid> so they circlejerk and shitpost
  33. Apr 07 21:11:51 <Antarcticanon> Homestuck and Frozen generals account for more than half the reports I get, and most of them aren't even breaking rules, they are just someone saying they didn't like something.
  34. Apr 07 21:12:08 <ThinMint>      ERP general and quest thread general account for well over half the reports on /tg/
  35. Apr 07 21:12:09 <SenatorBufordFunkmuscle>       There are Frozen generals? Oh jesus
  36. Apr 07 21:12:14 <ThinMint>      of course there are.
  37. Apr 07 21:12:16 <SenatorBufordFunkmuscle>       C'mon people it was a cute movie but goddamn
  38. Apr 07 21:12:21 <SenatorBufordFunkmuscle>       it wasn't that great
  39. Apr 07 21:12:29 <JustPX>        On /sp/ we have eternal generals, threads that are on the board at all times, and even though you could always talk sports, you run out of stuff to talk about eventually
  40. Apr 07 21:12:35 <Antarcticanon> Frozen is up to 700+ for general threads
  41. Apr 07 21:12:47 <JustPX>        And /sp/ has this dumb mentality of "we can be /b/ when there's no sports on"
  42. Apr 07 21:13:02 <Jeeperscreepers88>     >implying they aren't /b/ all the time
  43. Apr 07 21:13:04 <Troid> I agree that the general format can lead to content exhaustion faster than "non-general" threads might
  44. Apr 07 21:13:18 <ThinMint>      Troid, I feel like slow boards act different in this regard
  45. Apr 07 21:13:39 <ThinMint>      Boards like /u/, a general thread isn't much different than a normal thread because all threads last so long
  46. Apr 07 21:13:47 <ThinMint>      or at least, that's my take on it
  47. Apr 07 21:14:15 <ThinMint>      I certainly don't frequent the board, so I could be completely misguided
  48. Apr 07 21:14:38 <Troid> well that is the problem I guess
  49. Apr 07 21:15:05 <Troid> on fast boards the generals are used and remade 24/7 despite having nothing to talk about, whereas they can just linger for days/weeks on slow boards, only to be used again when there IS something to talk about
  50. Apr 07 21:15:09 *       AZ4 (~AZ4@Rizon-A7CEE2E6.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com) has joined
  51. Apr 07 21:15:09 *       ChanServ gives voice to AZ4
  52. Apr 07 21:15:43 <Troid> if people weren't complete idiots about when to make new threads, etc., I think generals would be okay even on faster boards
  53. Apr 07 21:15:48 <BOOF>  https://boards.4chan.org/k/res/20721305
  54. Apr 07 21:15:51 <BOOF>  thanks jesus!
  55. Apr 07 21:15:58 <ThinMint>      depends what you mean
  56. Apr 07 21:16:10 <ThinMint>      The way I see general threads defined
  57. Apr 07 21:16:11 <Troid> rather than THERE MUST BE A THREAD AT ALL TIMES TO BE REMADE IF AND ONLY IF THE PREIVOUS THREAD HAS XXX POSTS, if they just let them die when they're slated to die instead of bumping with crap, they might be more on-topic
  58. Apr 07 21:16:18 <ThinMint>      it's up 24 hrs/day by definition
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