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/lounge/ > {/prog/,/jp/} > 4chan \ {/jp/, /g/} > {reddit, /g/}

>>10
I don't actually hate imageboards but I do hate the meme-spamming retards that come here.
Try to read your own posts, it's like you try to make use of every meme you have heard of.
Pretending that 8chan is intelligent or free of stupid memes is just stupid and misleading.

>>10
Oh, and how could I forget the fourth option, ``proggit redditor cancer that somehow thinks he's better than the imageboarders.'' I'm starting to think >>13-kun might fall under this label, judging by his half-hearted preference for "serious" conversation.

>>12
I haven't been there since 2007 so I'm going to guess "still fucking abysmal."

>>13
I used some memes, yes. It would be unthinkable not use /prog/ staples like spoilering /prog/ or [biou]'ing EXPERT PROGRAMMER. I also said "jannie", "normalfags", "hot pocket", "#TRIGGERING", and "/g/ro". But merely using a meme in an appropriate context to describe something doesn't constitute spamming them; these phrases are simply the most effective way to succinctly convey concepts like "internet community moderator that is disliked for enforcing his own views of the way a community 'should' behave against what the vast majority of his community agrees is acceptable" or "overreacting to completely harmless things so that you can play the victim."

If the mere suggestion of a meme is enough to set you off, then what the fuck are you doing here? As much as I love /prog/, memes have been practically its raison d'être for most of its life (don't even try to pretend you were here for the early world4ch days). Sure, prior to '09 or '10 or so, when moot (as previously mentioned) added the /prog/ link to /g/, people were generally smarter, funnier, and "serious" about their memes, giving us many great kopipes, stories, and SICP fanfictions. But it's hard to deny that even then, actual programming discussion tended to be drowned out by /prog/ memes, stupid flamewars, aa spam, and flooding. I wouldn't have it any other way, but again, the /prog/ you love is much "worse" about memes than most online communities, so I have no idea how you managed to bear this place for so long if you are truly only interested in thoughtful programming discussion.

I never claimed that 8chan was free of stupid memes, because every community, even the stuffiest of mailing lists, has its own in-jokes. You would be very lonely or in truly dull company if you tried to eradicate every smidgen of humor from your haunt. I never said it was intelligent either; while I do believe it has a decent mix of imageboard silliness and thoughtful discussion, ultimately I don't go to imageboards or even textboards expecting to be continuously enlightened. I go to be entertained, to bikeshed and banter about current events, and occasionally take part in something amazing that could never happen in a more sterile community. No, all I said was that it was smarter than reddit and modern 4chan, which is not exactly a high bar to set.

jannie

oh it means ``janitor''

>>10
Oh, NIGGER

>>12
I haven't NIGGER

>>13
I used NIGGER

>>11,15
That's not exactly a new one, /g/ro. Have you not visited /jp/ in the last half-decade or so?

>>16
you're mother

>>17

/jp/

I'm not into chink animation or any sort of animation.

>>14
You read many things into my posts. In fact, I never said that all memes (inside jokes) are bad and that people should not have their fun. Instead I said ``meme-spamming'' and ``stupid memes''. The /prog/ memes did not feel spammy nor stupid (usually) at least for me.

And to add my opinion about 8chan: It is in no way better or worse than modern 4chan.

>>18
/g/ro detected for more reasons than one.

>>19
If I have read more into your posts than you intended, it is because you seemed to have a problem with the use of memes in my posts when really I was downright tame even by /prog/ standards.

>>20
Either you have inordinately high standards, or you never used imageboards very much. The lenient moderation and significant reduction in 12 year old shitposting retards at 8chan reminds me of '07-'09 4chan, which IMO was something of a golden age abutted by the cancers of gaia on one end and reddit on the other. Both are or were paradise compared to modern 4chan.

>>21
Not him but nothing wrong with /g/.

>>21

which inside my opening was something of a golden age

I'd like to experience this golden age inside of your opening.

>>22
Everything is wrong with /g/, and you are everything that is wrong with /prog/.

>>23
Don't pee in mine anus, kudasai.

>>24
Tell me then, what's wrong with /g/? It used to be much better but it's not that bad now.

banter
any posting about real world events
normalfag

Pick three, nigger.

>>25
see the writing style of >>26.

>>26
"Current events" can include anything from that sandnigger terrorist attack in France, to the alpha release of Rust, to the latest episode of the currently airing anime of choice, you sub-niggerath.

>>25
2006-2009 it was decent. The users were mostly NEETs and neckbeards discussing computers, technology, occasionally electronics or programming, and fending off retards from /v/ asking for advice for their "gaming rigs." It was a place where you could talk about Lain in peace.

Around late 2009, the iPhone achieved critical mass. So began the ceaseless onslaught of normalfag teenagers, nay, children, who for the first time in their sophomoric lives had a reason to care about "technology," soon bolstered by the release of the iPad in 2010 and the eventual surge in Android "smart" phones and tablets. Slowly, the conversation began to be dominated by boring consumer electronics comparisons, actual technical discussion was branded "autistic", and anyone making even the slightest reference to anime would be met by endless whining and shitposting by absolute fucktards that couldn't even fathom the irony of doing so on a site created to discuss anime. Around the same time, the link to /prog/ was set up, and the /sci/ and /lit/ imageboards were created. This infected /prog/ with a virus that only last year showed relief when we moved here and left most of the /g/ros behind, turned almost all of the other textboards into ghost towns before their eventual euthanasia, and begat an exodus of the remaining people worth talking to in /g/.

In short, in the space of a year or two, /g/'s demographic shifted from "the technical side of /a/ and /jp/" to "where /b/ goes to get tech support and advice on what they should ask for for Christmas." That, and a small cadre of naïve Stallman drones mindlessly regurgitating FSF propaganda into deaf ears while ricing their tiling WMs and web brogramming.

>>28
Ack, I knew I forgot something.

In 2010, moot started enforcing stricter moderation, giving the reins to the site to one of many waves of trigger-happy retards; anyone who would ask for it, really, whether they had participated on the board they wished to control, or even vaguely understood its culture, or not. This compounded with the previously mentioned matters to bring about the modern day /g/, where you can be banned for even mentioning a sci-fi anime like Lain in a perfectly on-topic context. That's not an exaggeration; the last time I visited /g/ out of curiosity, I was actually banned from the entire site for doing exactly that.

That's why I detest modern 4chan in a nutshell. It's almost impossible to discuss anything without ban evading, and if your message gets through, it falls on the deaf ears of absolute nincompoops.

I used to dump lolicon in shiity threads on /g/ for hours without any moderation. It kept most normie retards out.

>>30

I used to be a nolife. Still am.

>>30
I used to help you sometimes. 😉

>>28
This is true but as long as you avoid the stupid threads and you ignore the normals/newfags you will be fine. The majority of /g/ likes anime, the people who hate it and behave like retards are just the loud minority.

to "where /b/ goes to get tech support and advice on what they should ask for for Christmas."

Most people of /g/ actually hate tech support and advice threads.

>>29
While the mods are stupidly strict I think that you were just unlucky, I haven't been banned for talking about lain or any anime.
Thankfully moot seems to understand that the strict mods harm the site.
http://blog.4chan.org/post/103155892537/mobile-site-improvements-and-change-to-moderation

>>30
Still happens sometimes.

>>26,31
Fuck off retard

>>3
Anime rots your brain.

COCK

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>>34
The crap you implement with GOTO doesn't count as anime.

>>20
I take it back. 8chan is worse because its users spam their shit everywhere.

Who's moot xddd

>>8
4chan is still way better than 8chan

/jp/ are the worst image boarders because they are the image boarders that pretend to be better than the rest of them for some bizarre reason.

>>40
who are you quoting

>>40
Old /jp/'s shitposting will be studied in the future by academics.

http://i.imgur.com/Vao41OE.png

Fucking check these dubs