/qa/ - Questions and Answers

>>8462
>How much of our board's culture has been damaged by this?
The culture is missing because faggots, including (you), are not shitposting.
Wanna the culture you long back? Start posting again, so simple and obvious like that.

>>8463
You're missing the point, or perhaps intentionally omitting it.

>>8464
You wanna a scapegoat for you and frens vacating the board.
Post moar.

>>8465
No, I want to solve the problem of worse-than-reddit Facebook-tier garbage flooding the board I use every day.

>>8466
>I use every day
Doubtful beyond some random patched activity.

>>8463
Fuck off. You brick fucking wall.
Like a blackhole you make it all revolve around and nothing great escapes!
The dense motherducker energy making any kind of talking pointless!
If it weren't so we'd have discussions! Between the people who are here.
Obviously you never want to change your behavior in spite of mountains of evidence.
>>8465
You know the moment when cold fury runs down your spine?
I think I'm going to take a break.
>>8466
What he said.
>>8467
...

>>8467
I don't need to prove it to you. I've used this board every day, since April of 2017. I just don't spam it like a retard.

>>8468
>>8469
You both are full of shit. Shitpost moar or shut your trap.

>>8470
Why are you so defensive about Facebook posters?
Could it be that you are one?

>>8467
>random patched activity
I've made seven threads in the past month, and while I don't care to brag about it, I know it's more than how many you've made. Of the threads I made, at least half of them had their discussion quality visibly diminished when the Facebook-phenotype(s) started posting in them with their barely-related spam and tangential shit flinging. I do my work to keep this site like it used to be, to keep bringing up new conversations with the community I've come to love, but the sheer quantity and lack of quality is quite frankly demoralizing, and I can't blame the other Anons for not wanting to post here as often as they used to.
Every time I'm ready to make a new thread, I find myself asking "Is this one going to get shit all over too?", and sometimes I don't even bother.

It's all so tiresome.

>>8470
>Shitpost moar
>make line go up!
Exactly this asinine goddamn attitude.
We don't need shitposts. We don't need low quality boomer spam. We don't need thoughtless replies that took less than a minute to type.
There's a difference between quality shitposts and an onslaught of soulless garbage.

>>8473
>Exactly this asinine goddamn attitude.
>We don't need shitposts.
Absolutely yes. A deserted board is always unappealing to all lurkers.

>>8474
What's even more unappealing to lurkers is a board full of Facebook-tier meme dumping and generals with no conversations.

>>8475
>Facebook-tier
Dude, enough of your mythical facebook-tier meme. The memes are fine.

>>8476
You're literally the only one on this board who thinks that.

>>8477
Not true. Some poners before are fine with memes, but vocal and loud ones make more noise.

>>8478

>>8478
Nobody replies to those memes positively. Barely anyone engages with them. Nobody has conversations around them.
But the meme dumping isn't even the problem. The problem is the absolutely abhorrent, easily-identifiable posting style that reeks of the same verbage and ideologues of Facebook and imgur. It's appalling transparent wherever it appears.
But if course, you're more than ready to get defensive about it, because the moment you read "low-quality Facebook garbage", you thought of yourself. You knew immediately that a non-insignificant portion of those were your posts, and instead of even considering changing behavior, you just double down and insist that your sewage is quality content.
You wouldn't even deny being from Facebook, because everyone knows it's fucking true.

>>8479
>easily-identifiable posting style that reeks of the same verbage and ideologues of Facebook and imgur
Clearly a overt falsehood nearing slander.

>>8480
>slander
Do you use Facebook?

>>8481
Never, but I know what kind of images and memes are allowed there, and the ones posted at this site are clearly not the same. Then I have to call you for what you are: a liar.

>>8482
Then it must be another Anon shitting up the board with low quality Facebook crap then, because I see it everywhere.

>>8483
Most memes are of political and racial tone which never be allowed in normie social media. On the other hoof, the /sp/ board may contain some normie memes, but it is into the RULES, so you have no right to complain.

>>8484
>you have no right to complain
Lmao, get fucked.
>never be allowed in normie social media
Oh really, where do you get them?

>>8484
>you have no right to complain

>political and racial tone
>can't technically post them on Facebook, but I guess I'll post it here
>>8480
Mnmmm.
>you shut down everything that even pokes you
>end discussions by ever mean
>cannot understand who is speaking in any conversation
>illiterate on site anything
>goes fuck around
>refuses supporting any points made
>continually dumps garbage
>asinine attitude
>regularly responds to self as if different anons
>arbitrarily decides what's best for everyone else complains that nobody is doing the solution you're deciding
>bare minimum effort per post
>refuses to be bothered to read or understand any post
>replies with out of touch image
>implying that you're in the majority despite evidence to the contrary
>make threads that have stuff nobody replies to and claim it's everyone elses problem they don't like it
>passing off any accountability as everyone else is normies
>refuses to consider hypotheticals
>rejects anything that hurts the feelings
>technically illiterate
>no consideration for anybody else
20 ah, ah ah
>Clearly a overt falsehood
Just like from over a hundred different countries.
Kind of sussy baka.
But it's probably just your brain damage from having your flesh pounded.

I'm still waiting for you faggots to shitpost something.

>>8487
I already made a new thread since last night, you absolute mongoloid.

>>8487
I'm still waiting for you faggot to shitpost something good consistently.

>>8488
I was not referring to you. You pass.

>>8489
>fencesitter
You're fresh.

>>8491
>You pass
I made this thread too.
So fuck off with the "you don't post enough; you need to spam harder" crap. That's besides the point.

>>8493
>you need to spam harder" crap
Everypony needs to do it indeed.
Shitposting harder.

>>8494
This entire board was created to escape low quality shitposting.

>>8495
Then post good quality, according to your specs.

>>8496
I do.

>>8497
Good. Glad we are in synchrony.

>>8498
You either didn't read the OP or are intentionally ignoring it.
But if you have nothing left to say about it, that's fine.

>>8499
You don't get it. As long as you and frens post moar I'll be satisfied. Your moaning is just noise coming from the inertia of your heavy asses.

>>8500
Your satisfaction is not the priority here, nor is it the subject of the thread.

>>8501
Correct. Posting moar it is.

>>8492
If English isn't your first or second language, that's fine. Your behavior is shitty though.
>>8500
You're the only one happy with the shit you're shoveling. As you are it's a worthless time sink, and I Hate that! >>8502
Not on your timescale jackass.

I probably should have made this thread with visible poster IDs.

This is OP.

>>8506
You have offered zero solutions to the problem in the OP.

>>8507
>zero solutions
LOL

>>8506
>>8507
I understand the word discussion is a bit foreign.
Instead of beating an answer into a skull, it means talking about potential answers and the pros and cons.
An unlikely solution
>Anon who shuts down when questioned or probed, responds with wise answers and or at minimum explains throughly.
Pros:
More discussion
More quality posts
Everybody wins
Cons:
Unlikely

>>8509
Pottery

>>8510
There is an issue in you apparently reasonable explanation. Complainers are not posting, therefore they already vacated the place and the vacuum they left is being filled. They are continuously interfering with an active poster while adding butthurt to the board. In a nutshell, those anons only have the purpose of braking and shutting posting down.

>>8512
>Complainers are not posting
>Implying
I've made more than half a dozen topical and relevant threads in the past few weeks, which is a normal rate of content creation.
Spammers just bump their shitty generals with boomer-tier Faceberg spam, or worse, derail quality threads with their abysmal posting style.
>therefore they already vacated the place
I've been here the whole time.

>>8513
So, you may be active, but the rest is in vacation showing up only to shit on my threads.
By the way, look like your frens are not posting in your's either, because I'm a mayor participant but your frens are not.

>>8514
>your frens
This thread isn't about them.

>>8512
>Whenever I spew low quality stuff nobody wants to touch it
>everybody should be posting one message every second
>people who don't like my low quality spew are bad when they say they don't like it
>I am the only one who posts every second
>They somehow shut down posts by making more posts
You totally ignored my point, and you only think your way is the right way.
>>8514
>major participant
Spewing diarrhea everywhere is not something to be proud of.
>Not everybody is posting every second
I would rather one single almost great post once a year than your spam.
I and many others desire quality.
Your spew, refuses to produce quality.

>>8516
>I and many others desire quality.
And yet they themselves post nothing. Irony of ironies.
>Your spew, refuses to produce quality.
I do my best, sorry if your quality checks are triggered.

>>8512
The issue, which you seem unable to ever completely grasp, is that this really comes down to quality vs. quantity. Quality posts take time to compose, and quality discussion is usually slow because it requires people to take time and think through a problem. Board speed will decrease exponentially if you have a smaller number of posters participating.

Conversely, if users are just responding to each other with recycled memes or one-line no-u-style arguments, the board moves quickly but produces little worth reading. The speed might be attractive to a certain kind of poster, but that kind of person is mostly just looking to shitpost or get into pointless shouting matches; in other words, it's the kind of poster that this board was created to avoid. The problem with favoring a fast-moving, low-quality style of posting just to boost post count and engagement is that eventually serious discussion gets buried in memes and shitposts. This is basically what happened to 4/pol/, and I suspect the problem would persist to some degree even if all of the bots and shills were banned.

>Complainers are not posting, therefore they already vacated the place and the vacuum they left is being filled. They are continuously interfering with an active poster while adding butthurt to the board. In a nutshell, those anons only have the purpose of braking and shutting posting down.
The problem with this kind of thinking is that you're still focusing on quantity of posts rather than quality. Your rationale seems to be that low-effort spam is better than no posts at all, which I would argue is doing far more harm than good.

What you're essentially doing is filling the board with shit, to the extent that the only thing worth discussing is the amount of shit everywhere. So, naturally, discussion turns away from normal topics, and devolves into an endless meta-argument about what amount of feces is acceptable to have smeared all over the place. You take this as evidence that without your shitposts the board would be completely dead, and so continue to smear shit all over everything while patting yourself on the back for doing it.

As to whether or not traffic on this site is actually dying off, I can't honestly say. If this place was going to go completely under I think it's safe to say it would have done so by now; however, it is worth noting that we have suffered some real attrition due to people losing interest and moving on. It happens. We only exist in the first place because of an April Fool's Day prank; beyond that we're just a small site dedicated to political discussion, which can be had anywhere, and the pony fandom, which has itself suffered attrition due to the show going off the air and people moving on. The way I see it, we shouldn't be lamenting the fact that some people have moved on from the fandom or from this place, we should be celebrating the fact that people have stuck around as long as they have.

At the end of the day, you can't force people to be interested in a topic they're not interested in, so there is always a possibility that the site will end up dying off, or be reduced to a small number of core users. If the fate of this place is to become a slow-moving pony altchan like NHNB, then I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing. It might not move as fast as some people might like, and we might suffer some additional loss of posters who want more consistent engagment, but I think that ultimately the people who want to stay would be worth keeping around. However, turning the entire site into a garbage dump for low-effort faceberg memes and news aggregation is pretty much guaranteed to kill the site, or turn it into something that would be better off dead.

In other words, if it comes down to a choice between letting /mlpol/ die with dignity, or trying to sustain it by turning it into a 24/7 recycled meme dump like /pol/ or god forbid /b/, I would choose the former. That's my two cents.

>>8518
>The problem with favoring a fast-moving, low-quality style of posting just to boost post count and engagement is that eventually serious discussion gets buried in memes and shitposts. This is basically what happened to 4/pol/, and I suspect the problem would persist to some degree even if all of the bots and shills were banned.
>Your rationale seems to be that low-effort spam is better than no posts at all
That's right.
>What you're essentially doing is filling the board with shit,
Not according to me.
>As to whether or not traffic on this site is actually dying off, I can't honestly say.
I do. Moar posting is needed.
>In other words, if it comes down to a choice between letting /mlpol/ die with dignity, or trying to sustain it by turning it into a 24/7 recycled meme dump like /pol/ or god forbid /b/, I would choose the former. That's my two cents.
I thought that already was sorted out. Dumping is mostly in /sp/ then WTF is the complaint about?

>>8519
>Not according to me.
RIght. But it is according to pretty much everyone but you. That's what you don't seem to be able to wrap your head around.

>I thought that already was sorted out. Dumping is mostly in /sp/ then WTF is the complaint about?
Because for people who use the overboard, nothing has changed. The low-effort, low-quality threads are still the first thing they see when they refresh the board. Since you're basically just posting content for yourself only, wouldn't it make more sense to just keep the memes on your hard drive and just scroll through them whenever you need a dopamine rush?

>>8521
>>8520
>The low-effort, low-quality threads are still the first thing they see when they refresh the board. Since you're basically just posting content for yourself only, wouldn't it make more sense to just keep the memes on your hard drive and just scroll through them whenever you need a dopamine rush?
It's telling. The memes are hurting you.
Disgusting.

>>8522
No, it's really more like your memes are hurting memes as a concept.

>>8522
Helping kill off all decent posts.
>>8519
>I thought that already was sorted out. Dumping is mostly in /sp/ then WTF is the complaint about?
... you didn't understand what he said.

>>8524
All right, I'm moving aside again, but this time in utter disgust.

>>8525
I have no idea what your saying.

>>8517
>And yet they themselves post nothing.
I make at an average of one new thread par week. That's more than nothing.
And I know for a fact that multiple other users engage my threads, do they too are posting more than nothing.
>>8518
>Quality posts take time to compose, and quality discussion is usually slow because it requires people to take time and think through a problem.
This.
>Conversely, if users are just responding to each other with recycled memes or one-line no-u-style arguments, the board moves quickly but produces little worth reading. The speed might be attractive to a certain kind of poster, but that kind of person is mostly just looking to shitpost or get into pointless shouting matches; in other words, it's the kind of poster that this board was created to avoid.
>serious discussion gets buried in memes and shitposts
Not only that, it actually drives away quality posters who were brought here by the promise of quality content.
If posters only wanted high-speed, low-quality stuff, they'd just use 4chan. 4chan is still usable. We're not competing with 4chan in terms of speed, but quality.
>This is basically what happened to 4/pol/, and I suspect the problem would persist to some degree even if all of the bots and shills were banned.
Arguably worse, as since 4/pol/ still exists despite the sewage, /mlpol/ going down the same path threatens to make the content creators give up and leave for their own discord groups or whatever.
>turning the entire site into a garbage dump for low-effort faceberg memes and news aggregation is pretty much guaranteed to kill the site, or turn it into something that would be better off dead.
Basically my point.
>>8519
>I do. Moar posting is needed.
Then learn to make quality posts, ffs.
Make well-written, single-topic happening threads. Write green text about mares. Open discussions in meaningful ways that aren't just pissing contests.
>Dumping is mostly in /sp/ then WTF is the complaint about?
It's not only in /sp/. The memes dumping is actually not much of a priority issue in and of itself. Scroll up and read the posts carefully when they refer to posting style and discussion quality.

>>8520
>people who use the overboard
I won't lie, but I'm actually questioning if the overboard is actually healthy for us as a site. There's a reason why most altchans don't have one, and the ones that do tend to be the almost-dead ones. It blends different boards together and encourages people to just keep refreshing the over board instead of checking the catalog.
That's a topic for another thread though.

There is an extremely simple answer that only of you has paid more than a few joules worth of attention to:
post
more
horse
pussy
.

Solved in under a minute.

>>8529
We used to put horse porn in every post of every political thread thread. Lapse in that has enabled normies to infiltrate. It's time for a horsepussy revival.

I would like to propose a toast to the lack of cancerous Facebook sewage and boomer-tier posts these past two weeks. The board is healing.
Stay strong, Anons.

>>9005
A toast!

So, the Facebook problem has (mostly) gone away on its own, but how do we prevent these kinds of retards from infecting the board in the future? It's become abundantly clear that the presence of mares alone isn't enough to deter some shitposters.

>>9030
>So, the Facebook problem has (mostly) gone away on its own
Bravo!!! Now enjoy your dead board.

>dead
Boomer once again proving his obsession by replying and calling a board free of his shitposts "dead", while still evidently lurking aforementioned "dead" board.
Tops it off with a Facebook tier image macro and shitty caption. Pathetic.

>>9031
fuck off old man, you consistently lower the quality of the board, you by far are the worst poster i have seen since zald himself, do us all a favor and return to r/4chan

>9031
Dude, check it out. This is the current catalog for a board called www.4chan.org/pol/. You may have heard of it. You may have even been there once or twice. Right now, it is literally nothing but high-engagement, low-quality threads packed with unfunny boomer memes, twitter screencaps, and retards shouting at the wind. Threads move so quickly you won't even be able to read everything in them before they 404, which will be great for you since you can't read. You can, right now, right this very instant, go there, and within mere seconds you will be arguing with bots and sharing low-quality humorless memes with other refugees from r/the_donald whose attention spans and IQ are as low as yours, possibly even lower. It is the paradise of low-effort high-volume shitposting you have been dreaming of, and you won't even need to save pony reaction images in order to blend in. Why not leave this place forever and just go there? Frolic in a river of shit for all eternity, no horsefucker will ever judge you again.

>>9032
>Boomer once again proving his obsession by replying and calling a board free of his shitposts "dead"
No comments.

>>9034
>This is the current catalog for a board called www.4chan.org/pol/
>Right now, it is literally nothing but high-engagement, low-quality threads packed with unfunny boomer memes, twitter screencaps, and retards shouting at the wind.
No doubt this damned site went to shit. No Fun Allowed is textbook clownword mindset, worst yet as is enforced by the management, fucking unreal.
You've got what you wished, to say it politely.

>9035
>Oh no, it's not full of Facebook spam and stupid arguments that go nowhere.
How hard is it for you to get it through your thick skull that WE LIKE IT THIS WAY!? We liked it this way before you came with your Facebook spam, and we like it now.
What are you even doing posting on this "dead" board anyway? You said you wouldn't participate in this "controlled opposition" board anymore, and yet you're still here. Are you that obsessed?

>9036
>went to shit
>implying
You've said what you have to say, and you've received your answer. Now fuck off back where you came from.

>>9037
>You said you wouldn't participate in this "controlled opposition" board anymore, and yet you're still here. Are you that obsessed?
This is not participation but putting the ziggers in their place once in a while. I'm not posting in your mainstream news threads at all as I stand by decision, your cuckoldry won't be rewarded as long as my Flat Earth bread is anchored.

>>9039
All we ask is that you make a sincere effort to reply to arguments in posts in the Flat Earth thread, and a new thread may be made. No "shit posting" in a thread that makes every appearance of being serious. If you want a Flat Earth fun posting thread, make it clear that it is in fact a fun posting thread

>9039
>This is not participation
All posting is participation.
>putting the ziggers in their place
Lol, lmao even.
>once in a while
You are lurking constantly, waiting for someone to mention you. Obsessed.
>I'm not posting in your mainstream news threads at all
Good. You are not welcome there.
>as long as my Flat Earth bread is anchored
Then I'm glad it's staying that way.

>>9040
>All we ask is that you make a sincere effort to reply to arguments in posts in the Flat Earth thread, and a new thread may be made.
Fuck no. Don't give him what he wants. We've been trying to reason with him for three fucking years, and his behavior has only gotten worse and worse.

Oh look, the flatty is still a problem.
In other news, jews tend to have an over-representation of large noses

>>9040
Seriously, I have a hard suspicion on the staff, or at least one of them, being jewish and a communist. Beginning with simping for women and ending with defending A.I., edible insects, freemasonry, and transhumanism. Or at least the lack of reaction of the staff to proponents of those abominations. So, I won't engage any longer shills, that's a fact.
If the seriousness of a tread is the issue, I will create the proper one in /sp/ and the subject will be solved.

>>9040
I hope that >9044 this post is enough evidence to show that you shouldn't indulge this nigger at all, Lotus.

>>9045
Show your post count, to the survival of this board it is all it counts.

>>9045
>>9042
He doesn't want to comply with any standards or rules; don't worry.

>>9044
Staff doesn't take any position on any specific policy or moral or social issue while posting as staff. We just try to create a venue for productive discussion.

I'm not aware of any current or former member of staff who simps for women, defends AI, edible insects, or transhumanism.

>>9047
>staff who simps for women
Former mod said that the women don't deserve rights thread was a bait one and was doubting if deleting it or not.
There were breads, I don't remember which boards, with the mentioned subjects, myself and occasionally another poner opposed the shills, but the staff and the usual complainers were silent. So, the staff is hyper active to oppose me, but not the unholy globalist garbage, go figures why.

>>9047
>He doesn't want to comply with any standards or rules
That's the reason /sp/ exists, but I was suppressed also there.
F

>>9048
>>9049
We are trying to keep this a productive forum for discussion. And to that end, we have rules

No non-responsive posts. Try to engage with other posters
1. No simple dumping of memes
2. No acting like memes are a response to an argument
3. A reaction image does not suffice as a reply
4. No dismissing all replies as "shills" or what have you

This is an anonymous image board
1. No more "I" and first person pronouns
2. No more talking about being the savior of the board or whathaveyou
3. No more personalizing those who disagree by characterizing them as dedicated enemies

No derailing of threads. Keep responses in threads on topic.

This is more or less what we've been asking. Can you do these?

>>9050
>Can you do these?
F

>>9047
>He doesn't want to comply with any standards or rules; don't worry
He doesn't deserve any more chances, so don't offer him any.
>9046
42 on-topic threads on the main board catalog. 52 threads on /sp/. 14 threads on /cyb/. 8 on /a/. 25 on /qa/ Don't feel like sifting through the miles of roleplay threads to count on /vx/.
And none of them are relentlessly-bumped cesspools of Facebook sewage.

>9051
>>9050
He clearly means he won't comply. Can we get rid of him now?

>>9052
Relax. The requirements are overwhelming. I want to shitpost unmolested, not to apply for Medical School.
Bye.
You don't own this site

>>9050
Let me guess, banned again?

And stay the fuck off this site

>>9052
♡
>>9058
Hip-hip horsey! Hip-hip Hooray!

>>9054
Good riddance