>>142882
>I have no idea how [s4s] came into being.I never really used /s4s/ but as far as i can remember, it was created some time after 2011 as a fallback board when /b/ was down. Its pretty much just another shitheap for the flies to fall on.
>4chan went downhill with the advent of the iPhonesyou may be onto something there. giving easier unsupervised access to argueably the main board of 4chan must have drastically decreased the qualuty of the site, no doubt. that said, I have to say /b/ was never an excellent board. but the entertaining content thread have become increasingly rare.
theres days people unrionically complain and spam if you post "undesired" content there, including gore, jailbait, thinly veiled suicide instructions or IRL trolling. Thread favouritism is a thing. I can testify that even for /mlp/. If you shitpost in MLPG thread you get banned very fast. this is unwarrented since MLPG is objectively one of the worst threads on the board.
to say it with few words, /b/ lost its balls.
>I was doing serious damage to the userbase of the site.If this is true, i commend your efforts. This is actually impressive.
I myself have done a little field research for forced memes in early 2017.
Some time after Valentines day i discovered a facebook meme with a purple dove. I save a couple images and started a campaign on 8chan /b/.
i posted doves only for 2 days in a row 8 hours a day. I did not exactly "raid" the board, but i made sure that there was a dove picture visible it every thread on the front page at all times. Every time one fell of the visibility, i reposted one swiftly.
It took one day before the dove was recognised by board staff. It was put in as an all time screen overlay gif.
2 days in, people started unironically complaining, begged for mercy, threatened me and asked to get the dove and myself permabanned. THe mods held a poll for this, after which was decided i should not be banned. I left after that, since i had gained all intel i needed.
I was both surprised and disappointed at thios reaction. You would think a side with the reputation of 8chan had thicker skin and a non-topic board like /b/ would be have a higher pain tolerance to something as mundane as a purple dove. Apparently, this was not the case.
I guess chan sites and their audience just arent what they used to be. Not even on the "deepweb". People value security and familiarity more than original content, even on topicless boards. Its like The patriots said, people break up in micro communities and only see what they want to see as reality. Nothing is true, but nothing is untrue.