I'm curious about our community's origins.
http://strawpoll.me/6855025
>>716085
/int/
>>716085
You should've allowed for multiple answers and far more boards.
t. fa/tg/uy
>>716085
I had a kick posting on the shit boards for a while, and just noticed this one when I was trying to find something that wasn't just a slurry of shitposting.
It's pretty comfortable. A lot of people who really know their shit, a lot of people who don't but genuinely enjoy learning and discussion. It's kind of like /lit/ but less unabashedly elitist.
Out of those boards, /int/ is my most visited though.
I'm /k/ at my core, but I switched from /pol/ to here
/v/ here
i played civilization once
>>716085
Jesus fuck, at least put in all the boards on 4chan.
Buncha slack jawed faggots around here.
/int/
>>716136
Ikr? I already called him an incompetent faggot but he refuses to budge, I don't know what else I can do.
>>716136
Everybody here is from /int/, /lit/, or /pol/ though
>>716171
I'm from /sp/ though.
>>716085
/co/mrade who got bored one day
Use to go to /g/. But got bored of all the /v/-people. Liked history, so I came here. Now /pol/ is annoying, but at least they're just acting in comparison to /v/.
It was a long road, and only one place wouldn't be correct.
My first exposure to history and philosophical thought was actually /tg/. I went there because I thought I'd learn to play D&D with my older cousins, found something that defied my expectations. Not a bunch of nerds arguing over childrens' stories but instead a bunch of nerds arguing over meanings and motivations of actions using historical stuff as examples. /tg/ eventually went to shit after a nazi mod stamped out all this wonderful conversation in the name of keeping the board pure, which actually managed to kill off most of the creative and interesting fellows.
Visited KC to learn more about /int/ in general rather than just reading history books. Loved it because a book only tells the side of one author's point of view, while the internet you can hear details and viewpoints of literally anyone, and specifically those who lived through an event or in the same location. A cliche would be asking what a German guy thought of his ancestors fighting in a war only to have a different viewpoint from seeing the enemy as a monster to be destroyed. Eventually, you find out people are a hell of a lot more similar than not. KC /int/ sort of fell by the wayside after the community became more and more insular (In the sense that KC /int/'s board members began to think and act a single way), so I moved on to other places.
Sat in /k/, /pol/, and a million other places, all of which had snippets of interesting topics once in a blue moon. Thankfully, /his/ was finally created which encompassed full time what I was looking for.
/m/ and /tg/
>>716170
No matter how much I learn or hear, Gandhi will always be a bloodthirsty monster in my book.
>>716085
>site
>>716171
But that's wrong.
>>716171
But thats wrong.
>>716252
What the hell is with so many /tg/ people here?
>>716171
/a/, /jp/, /m/, /k/, /int/, /o/, /tv/ here.
/his/ is
35% /lit/
25% /pol/
15% /int/
10% /tg/
8% /v/
2% /x/
2% /trv/ and /out/
3% other
>>716171
I use /a/ and /vp/
>>716284
forgot about /k/, I'd say they make up something like 5%
>>716284
>/v/
Literally worse than /pol/.
>>716171
>tfw from /o/
>>716311
Quick, tell me what the first gas powered motor vehicle was!
extended version
http://strawpoll.me/6855554
>>716085
/x/
/lit/
and sometimes /v/
but /his is my home now
>>716085
mix of /k/ and /tg/
well i am usually on b/s/hc and to a certain degree on pol. but i was on pol for the /his stuff anyway so I am ehre to stay. sad i couldn't name any board i usually browse.
>>716085
I was in /pol/ when we had /history/ threads before there was a board for it. We would have true art threads, listen to classical music, play Paradox games, and make the pages of whatever history book we were currently reading stick together. Good times. /history/ threads on /pol/ were a lot better than /his/, honestly.
from /twg/ in /vg/
>>716412
history threads on /v/ were a lot better than /his/
I mainly go on k and Pol and now this board
>>716085
/Fit/
/gsg/
>>716284
This seems about right
>>716352
thanks
>>716352
Still no /g/... I /g/ really that unimportant?
>>716085
>strawpoll
fuck off
>>716085
/pol/ and /tg/ were my two main boards before /his/ came along.
But I swear, I'm not a gibbering idiot, I can carry along conversations. I'm usually on WW2 threads, because that's my main interest and /pol/ used to be the board that occasionally had discussions on it.
/b/ was the first board I frequented, but I got bored of shitposting and cancer threads so I moved to /pol/. There was no respite in the shitposting, so here I am.
>>716867
>Moved from ironic /pol/ to unironic /pol/.
You are a brave individual.
mostly
/k/
/lit/
/n/
/out/
less frequently
/fit/
/sp/
/diy/
/int/
rarely
/tg/
/pol/
/tv/
/x/
>>716873
I would't say he's brave, just dumb
>>716085
/v/ /fit/
>there are people who aren't from /k/
>>716085
>>716085
/k/ here! There's a shit ton of us here. Your poll is shit.
>>716127
>I switched from /pol/ to here
You're not one of us and you never were.
>>716298
Other polls have put us closer to fifteen percent. We've had god tier threads about topics such as the bronze age collapse over on /k/.
I feel like people wouldn't want to admit that they came from /pol/
>>716085
If I belong to one board it's /k/.
I'm a bit of a board nomad my has been b>v>sp>pol>tv>his
With pilgrimages to /ck/ and /k/ regularly
>>716085
Your poll is so shit.
Fran/k/onian here. I like the history, but the humanities are a stew of feces.
I'm from /int/ /trv/ and /fit/. /His/ is my home now.
>>716352
>all these /a/nons
what the fuck
fuck off you weebshits
>>717356
It's all good, man. I don't like anime or weebs, but this is /his/. No need for hate
From lurking at /b/ to learning at /fit/. Made some trips to /gd/ to ask for advice and checked out /vg/ regularly for information about certain games. I then quit lifting, went to /pol/. Resided there for a while, but noticed I needed something else to fill my gaps. I then checked out /lit/ and started reading about history. Then some Chinese version of moot decided it was time for a history board and here I am.
>>716085
/b/ years and years ago.
/k/ ever since and still a /k/ommando to this day.
/his/ just started lurking, but have always been a bit of self titled history buff.
>>717145
yea /k/ will always be home for me too /k/omrade
I started with /int/ and almost killed myself after looking at /pol/
>>716085
/a/ is my main board, but I'm a /pol/lack as well
/sp/ is my main, but I lurk /v/ late night.
/o/ mostly
>>716171
But that's wrong. /v/ and /tg/.
>>716085
/co/, /v/, /pol/, 8gag /his/
from /vg/ civ and total war general
>no fucking /tg/
Into the trash it goes.
>>716085
>cia.gov.us
No thanks.
>>716085
/twg/ was my /his/ for years.
[spoiler]RIP Gook and Osprey dumps[/spoiler]
I'm from /co/. I really enjoyed the large vast intercnnected setting of comic worlds with large history and how while reading one story knowing there were other stories elsewhere in the setting I could go read too and even overlap.
Then I learned history provides the exact same experience of hearing a story knowing there are many others happening that can overlap too.
I then learned history has almost as many retcons as comics.
>>716171
>Be me
>Hate /fa/
>Have unrequited romantic pardon for /cgl/
>Manlet
>Natty
>Possibly homosex
>/fit/
>>716271
/tg/ and history go together like peas and carrots.
You've got DMs trying to research their new medieval-fantasy setting, you've got roleplayers trying to idealize their new characters, you've got writers, artists, amateur cartographers, sometimes even the musician or two.
It really helps to bring a setting to life if you've done enough research to appreciate the history behind your world building.
We also get a lot of /k/ommandos who help to provide insightful relevancy regarding firearms, the wilderness, and sometimes they'll even talk about pre-gunpowder weaponry.
Good stuff, anons. Good stuff.
>That one guy from /sci/
Oh, /sci/-anon. Here's to not fitting in anywhere.
>>716085
>no /gsg/
Shit poll
>All the butthurt anons realizing that /his/ has mostly /pol/acks
/pol/ I wasn't a Nazi I liked the international stuff but never heard on /int/
/gif/
I lurked around /gsg/ and /tv/. Now I lurk here.
>>718305
>>716171
/a/, /tv/, and /vg/
>/pol/ 2nd place
i hope it's a ruse
>>716085
/gsg/, /int/ (/nederdraad/ and /brit/
>>716661
>>719314
>>719393
>>720065
This
>no reddit.
Askhistorians ruined discussing history on reddit because now everyone expects 500 words and if they disagree they start shouting SOURCE!??!
Also int.
>>716271
/tg/ was the /his/ board until the fucking nazi mods decided that X QUEST and <INSERT TRADITIONAL GAME> were the only things you could do.
/tg/ used to have wonderfully bizarre conversations started by anything that could lead to various and random other discussion, because especially in the early days when being a "nerd" was for you know "nerds" most fa/tg/uys were at least somewhat intelligent and interested in all sorts historical/philosophical discussions. Now anything bordering on off topic get's banhammered.
(Hell /tg/ wouldn't exist if nerds didn't want to play out historical battles.)
>>716085
How did /r/askhistorians bring people here?
>>720178
My guess would be interest in history.
>no /biz/
anon...
>>716085
>Not maining /r9k/ before /his/ came along.
>>720188
Yeah dude, but how did they came here? Did they link /his/ in /r/askhistorians when /his/ was created a few months ago or something?
>>720197
>Wizards
oh god, why did you remind me of their existence.
/g/
most of my life I was into tech and programming and I started to realize I'm a really cold and boring person for non tech savvy people so I'm trying to add some color to this gray
this board is pretty welcoming
>>720206
4chan isn't a secret club fampai
/his/ has been my favourite board since it started. /tv/ is also pretty decent.
/pol/ I'll visit to gawk. /o/, /g/, and /trv/ if I'm in the mood. /lit/ and /k/ once in a blue moon. Know nothing about any other boards: all weaboo shit I assume.
>>720218
Same senpai
I've also been taking public speaking classes and philosophy classes to improve my speaking ability
>>716085
You forgot proto-/his/ from /qa/.
>>716085
Shit poll. The question is stupid though. What if I started going to /his/ just because I saw it mentioned on the top of the site?
But I guess you could say I mostly frequent /v/ and /lit/ so I came from there.
>>716085
>361 votes
>everyone from /int/
Explains a lot.
