Not the cadence shitposter but isnt that a greentext starter for writefags?
-Anon E mous
>pic was quickest i could find to something relatable on the matter.
>ignoreit.jpg
>>26908104
Just want to be sure so I and other anons can clearly identify when its roleplay because Cyoa's could technically be qualified as roleplay too.
>>26908167
Mods won't answer. They want to be vague so they can be able to ban things they don't like while still following the rules.
>>26908272
Well shit... Well
Scruffy. What dont you like?
>>26908293
fun
>>26908272
If I were a mod, I'd ban all of the anime boards. Because power corruption is fun, especially at the expense of others, and double especially when it's a power I am not allowed to exercise.
>>26908301
I walked straight into that one.
>>26908104
>>26908167
There's been a new writing prompt after writing prompt that go into full fledged threads. Literally a new general spawns every few days because of this shit. Rather keep it to long-time threads, fetish bullshit, and show discussion than
>Anon, do you think I'm pretty? I don't :c"
>ponies with severe self esteem problems thread #12
>"we're not a general"
stop prompting writers, and come up with some shit yourself.
>>26908511
So your saying if we actually wrote it ourself we wont get banned? What if we are and the first post is only a taste of what we are creating? Then would continued to write. Ofcourse we wouldnt want to use any prompts like the cancerous one liners. But then.. We would fall under a general category so how do we avoid this? Use another site? Is there a way to writefag here?
>>26908104
Yes, Scruffy is a retard that doesn't understands what a prompt for writefags is.
>>26908511
>>26908667
>stop prompting writers, and come up with some shit yourself.
Too bad that's "roleplaying"
See, CYOAs are ok because someone other than the writer is giving suggestions on how the story should go.
Greentext prompts have someone giving ideas to someone else to write ideas, influencing how it turns out..
Very different.
>Roleplaying is when people responding to the thread are expected to take on an active role as a character in the story.
With CYOAs you have someone writing a story with characters who they have to give characterization to.
As expected of any story.
With standard greentexts though you have someone writing a story with characters who they have to give characterization to.
It is clear that this is very different and thus roleplaying.
Creating written content of any kind is thus roleplaying, unless it is a CYOA because they are obviously special.
I appreciate your understanding.
>>26908667
just keep it to one fucking thread, it's not hard. people here latch onto shit so much that anything can become a general. people here are hungry for contentfags, but it works best as a one time thing, rather than keeping it going till it loses it's "flare". otherwise threads/generals contributing actual content get knocked off thanks to prompts and new generals popping up
i think what the mods are telling us is to plan out our writing threads, instead of having another anon come in and write it for them
>>26908104
>>26908167
they just fucked up and now try to cover it, stop taking it so seriously
I'm a writefag for prompt threads.
Usually I try keep that prompt within the thread itself, finishing the story before the thread turns into a general. I get the general hate.
>>26908511
Though, what about Anon's who can't write?
Ones who want to see a story take off, but don't have the means to do so?
As a writefag I just see what people want and pander to them, and I wouldn't writeat all if it wasn't for those prompt threads.
Moreover, I'm sure I'm not alone in this mindset. If I and all the others that worked like me disappeared, the board would be a desolate husk, moreso than it is now.
Without prompts and writefags, this board wouldn't go back to the 'nostalgic 2011 times where everything was about the show and the board wasn't clogged with shit'.
It would be gone.
Or as slow as /3/.
A lot of Anons have rose-tinted glasses about this board. It's always been a cesspool.
>>26908104
>tfw today's the day the Hey Anon meme died
We literally can't post it anymore, which is sad.
Eat shit Neo-Scruffy you Cheeto stained shitskin. Admit you fucked up and we'll forgive you. This vague hand waving post-action justification is as pathetic as you can get even for you.
Clarifiy what happend, apologize and we'll all move on. We've done fine on lax moderation so far until you threw a sperg out and kicked our wasp nest.
>Ban me I'm greentexting and there's nothing you can physically do to stop me.
>>26908742
i don't exactly know if it counts as roleplaying. i mean if Anon was referred to in first/second person, it'd count. different view of the reader and all that shit
>>26908742
>Creating written content of any kind is thus roleplaying
Im having a hard time understanding this post to a degree but i think i get the gist of it
>>26908745
>keep it to one board
>make the prompts yourself
I can understand this. But while it could start a general as long as its to a single thread its good. At least thats the vibe im getting from reading this.
>>26908834
>It's always been a cesspool.
but it was our cesspool
>>26908742
And even then greentext prompts are less "roleplaying" than CYOAs because a writefag can make the greentext into something a lot different than with what he started with.
With CYOAs you have a green on rails with a lot of branches, but it's still on rails and an Anon who is more of a roleplaying tool than a real character.
So, to make matters short, Scruffy is a fucking retard and I hope he kills himself.
>>26908879
>Im having a hard time understanding this post to a degree but i think i get the gist of it
He is saying that Scruffy is a mongoloid while giving an explanation about it.
>>26908745
So, generals like normal norman and Fingerbang are bad because they're a place where several authors congregate to post their work?
That seems like exactly the type of behavior the mods should be encouraging, considering it's one thread, instead of a dozen single threads.
>>26908895
>green on rails
Incorrect on multiple accounts. 90% of CYOAs don't feature Anon as a character. In addition, more often than not, CYOAs are now more like /tg/'s quests than their CYOAs.
>>26908834
I think anybody can be a writefag. It's just not much people have the drive and motivation to do it like others do. A prompt is a great thing because it is an idea, and if they're happy with said idea, that should be quite enough to decently write something people here would enjoy.
unless they're terrible at grammar and illiterate, which is confusing because they could read and beg writerfags to write something for them.
i think it's just newfag laziness killing this board.
>>26908978
generals like that aren't bad, because it can spawn a fuckload of ideas based on a single topic, keeping it happy and content-spewing for a long time.
whereas a thread where it gets old after two stories just gets plain and boring
i may be interpreting the mods wrong, but this is what i'm gathering. content and contributing is what /mlp/ lives for, so maybe we should plan ahead more and stop prompting as much
That mod is clearly a faggot, a hasdrone, a brony, he faps to anthro and humanized, likes EQG. I even heard he has a diapers in fog fetish
>>26908871
Exactly,
And as you can see the generals and CYOAs left untouched have absolutely no writing in second person, and thus are safe.
>>26908879
To make it easy just don't create content of any kind.
Having the same discussions over and over is much better.
Let the topics grow stale, and keep circulating the tapes.
>>26908895
>>26908961
Perfect!
5 stars!
Seriously this is basically "Suppose yo work in an office" 2.0
Mods are being fucking retarded and creating some nonsense sticky saying "Go fuck yourself."
And at this point the few people we have I don't feel care enough to retaliate
Most people will just go to trash if they even care enough, and others will just stop posting.
This kills the board
And unless someone higher up does something there's nothing we can do.
>>26909031
>CYOAs are now more like /tg/'s quests than their CYOAs
So CYOAs confirmed for roleplaying. Thanks anon.
>>26909077
I understand your post and your gets thank you based anon. I guess the ride is finally over. It was so abrupt. See you faggots in real life. If you guys go outside.
>>26908886
It's still our cesspool though?
What's changed?
There's more green, god forbid.
It's not like threads about the show get taken down by the green generals.
Admit it, show discussion threads last for 100 to 200 posts and no one talks in them, so they die.
If you like show discussion so much, talk more! There are threads up right now about the show, go there. You can even filter generals, isn't that neat?
>>26909051
>unless they're terrible at grammar and illiterate, which is confusing because they could read and beg writerfags to write something for them.
I've seen plenty of Anons try write to no avail. Some people can read just fine, but cannot write.
> so maybe we should plan ahead more and stop prompting as much
So you're for the generals then?
You're for the fingerbangs and the normans and the others?
Not hating, I agree. I just wonder why not many others do.
>>26908742
It doesn't say Greens are roleplaying. It just says "Hey Anon I'm X hehe"-style greentext bait threads are. It's like nobody on this board can fucking read.
>>26908742
Thank you for clearing that up. Now we can all shit post in peace knowing cyoa's aren't roleplaying like the mods said.
>>26909156
They even deleted long time generals that focused a prompt in the OP.
That's also not roleplaying.
So, to make it short, kill yourself Scruffy go eat a hotpocket if you know how to cook them, that is.
>>26909143
i can imagine quite a lot of people can't genuinely write, but i think the mods don't want them to use it as an excuse to knock actual content-creating threads off the board. doesn't hurt to try write stories
seems as though some anons don't like generals because the most vocal ones we have on this board are about EQG and shitty fetishes. even though they contribute more content than "Pinkie feels lonely, what would you tell her? writefags pls write for me"
So are we allowed to post the Cadence meme as long as it's an actual prompt?
>>26909212
yis
>>26909198
Well, nothing that got deleted has anything to do with the damage control sticky. I'm just saying the damage control sticky doesn't have anything to do with normal green/writefagging.
A nebulous definition of 'roleplaying' if nothing else.
More clarification would be grand as in "Greentext stories in first person are fine. Second person or third prose style are absolutely not".
Low quality ">HI ANON I DID THIS" posts were never a problem and a chunk of them spawned some amusing greentext stories. Don't know where the mods are getting their information on that one.
Of course we'll never get that any of that. We get overreaching statements that could be applied to anything so the staff can claim they did no wrong.
>>26909207
>EqG is automatically a bad thing.
When will this shitty meme end?
It's written, produced, and distributed by Hasbro under the My Little Pony line.
It's an official part of the franchise, whether or not you believe it to be canon.
I would understand if it was a new IP, but it's LITERALLY CALLED My Little Pony.
Where else should fans post about it?
>They're humans.
Okay.
It's still My Little Pony.
It's in the fucking title.
>>26909156
Then it would be nice if they followed their own words.
I was writefagging in a thread whose topic evolved from an OP post that was describing something that happened involving ponies.
There was some discussion and eventually some anons said "Hey X would make an intersting green" so I wrote.
It was just some thread, not even a greentext prompt, and some discussion spurred a greentext.
This is the same as discussion in some thread spurring some drawfag to art.
It was standard 2nd person greentext, just like all the other mod-approved threads still up.
But it was deleted.
The deletions make no sense, and the sticky does not give explanations or justifications to their actions.
Stop sucking the mod's dick since you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
>>26909274
not saying i don't like EQG, i fucking love it, but it brings out the autism in most cringe-shitposters on this board
>>26908301
>In the middle of the night, one menace rises.
>The flickering screen of a computer reflects off his face.
>It is Scruffy, the executor of all fun and joy.
>Slowly, his hands move across the keyboard
'Hi Anon! Did you know roleplaying is against the rules?'
>The universe begins to shake, a deafening sound coming from the beginning of everything.
>Scruffy smirks, and continues.
'Mods and janitors have tried to take a hands-off approach with this format of thread'
>The screams of trillions upon trillions of damned souls are heard across the multiverse.
>The fabric of reality begins to crack.
>Scruffy in full on laughing, his hands begin to move faster.
'but it's gotten to the point where low-effort "greentext bait" threads using this format have started to take over the board. '
>The roar of millions of universes collapsing on themselves are heard as existence ceases to exist.
>There is nothing left in reality.
>Except Scruffy.
>Nothingness surrounds him, floating through void with just his desk and computer.
>Scruffy smiles.
"Mission accomplished- Exterminate all life."
>>26909313
Nice timestamp.
>>26909297
>>26909313
>And after reading it
Nice post. I want this turned into a general.
FUND IT
>>26909280
I mean, the deletions had nothing to do with the sticky. I was literally in two show discussion threads with no roleplaying that got pruned, and the artist improvement thread. The deletions have had nothing to do with the "rule clarification."
>>26909393
Yeah, and the Ghost thread stayed up the whole time.
>Only for show discussion, not fandom.
If Ghost threads aren't fandom discussion, what is?
>>26909393
>>26909433
The deletions have nothing to do with the sticky, and yet the sticky is being used to "clarify" the recent happenings.
It makes no god damned sense, and "roleplaying" is the new scapegoat answer.
And here I thought Global Rule 6 was horrible
>>26909433
>>26909471
Yeah I'm just assuming some mod freaked out or something. I have no idea why they were deleting anything, as there was no rhyme or reason to it. Perhaps they told a mod to enforce the roleplay rule with the intent of getting rid of the "shitposty" prompts, and the guy went off the leash or something. no idea. I'm just saying, by the "clarification" there should be nothing wrong with normal greens.
Now, I have a cellphone whose internet connection says I am in Miami even though I live in a third world shithole.
I could use it to make porn threads with total impunity.
>>26909562
Anon, do you think that mods care about this board, please, don't be delusional.
>>26909615
I'm pretty sure they hate us. I'm just saying. All the normal green generals are back up and fine. it seems like whatever happened has been sorted out.
>>26908834
>As a writefag I just see what people want and pander to them
>>26909703
Faggot.
>>26909737
Just writing what appeals to the audience is a disservice to the creative process and one's integrity as a writer. Any writefag worth their salt doesn't do it to appeal to an audience, but because they inherently enjoy writing and creating.
Otherwise we get saturated in the same generic shit that got us into this mess.
>>26909806
>disservice to the creative process
>coming up with stories that appeal to people isn't creative
>writing stuff that people enjoy in your own style is a disservice to creativity
>one's integrity as a writer.
>integrity on an anonymous board where no one knows who you are
>Any writefag worth their salt doesn't do it to appeal to an audience
Of course not. They do it because it appeals to them on some level.
>>26909806
>disservice to the creative process and one's integrity as a writer.
>Wow.jpg
So a little fan service is terrible even when done correctly.
>>26908104
these mods are complete fagits huh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxh-IjxG2KY
>mod supporting fagits=Tetsuo
>Anti mod anons=Kanada
>Mods= Military/Space laser
>>26909274
This reminds me transfags. Beast Wars has "transformers" in it's name, is licenced by Hasbro, continues the story of the G1 cartoon and at some point takes place in the two crashed spaceships that brought the Autobots and Decepticons to Earth. Hell, the G1 bots are still inside the ships and inactive. But the transfags keep screaming bloody murder about how Beast Wars doesn't belong in transformers.
>>26909883
>>coming up with stories that appeal to people isn't creative
>>writing stuff that people enjoy in your own style is a disservice to creativity
Now you're getting it :^)
But seriously, limiting one's self to only ever writing something if it's what a larger number of people will like is ultimately more detrimental. Especially when every other writefag is already doing exactly that.
>>>integrity on an anonymous board where no one knows who you are
You don't need a name to have personal integrity, and writing strictly for praise or for the sake of pleasing an audience instead of writing for the sake of writing (and maybe keeping a little bit of the audience's interest in mind) certainly gives shallow reason to write.
>Of course not. They do it because it appeals to them on some level.
Yeah, but legitimately creative ones don't sell their skills so cheap, like some sort of $5 hooker. ;^)
>>26909937
Woe unto me to suffer such hyperbole.
>>26909986
Beast Wars 1 was awesome.
>>26910121
I strongly agree. As a 3Dfag, it had the extra appeal of seeing how the graphics evolved over the course of the series. Beast Machines wasn't too bad either. If you ignore the inaccurate toys and watch it as a separate show (which is how it was written).
Speaking of Mainframe, I recently rewatched Shadow Raiders after well over a decade. At some point a rock soldier in the background shouts "I'm rock hard!" Man, I loved how that company passed shit under the radar like this.
>>26908104
He's asleep now I bet, but soon he will be back to clean this board again like the based god he is
>>26910321
>like the based god he is
Get your ass to reddit if you need stricter moderation to make you feel safe.
>>26908104
>fuck the mods, and scruffy too
ANONS UNITE
FAGGOTS, AUTISTS, EVEN SHITPOSTERS
>Attention all anons, I the cumdump Mod, declare for all threads to be banned, when ever, where ever, 7 years no trial
We can not let these fuckers suppress us, tell us that we can't have safe legal fun, ruin our rights, bully us into thinking they can do what ever they please, the time has come anons, a revolution is here, let us rise up against these tyrants, and not stand for the BULLSHIT that they are saying, fuck them,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ubag7dtn4
FREEDOM!!!
>>26911108
Freedom
>>26911970
Draw on it as long as you support our cause. it doesnt matter if you dont even know how to.
Show your support for /mlp/!
>>26908104
No one said the mods were intelligent
>>26908301
explains why the pinkie thread got deleted
>>26910121
F
for Dinobot, I salute you!
>>26912021
Accurate image.
>>26908167
it's simple: Are you yourself personally making an in character post?
If you are, its roleplay because you are playing a character.
If you are not, it's not roleplay.
>>26909198
And they also deleted nearly every cyoa. what they did and their explantion for what they did is clearly inconsistent.
>>26912489
And if you are making dialog for a character? These lines are kind of blur in a sense.
>>26912544
if you're making dialogue suggestions that the author uses, thats fine.
If you respond in the character of anon and then are responded to in the character of the prompt as if you personally and the character are having a conversation, then thats roleplay.
>>269088344
>Though, what about Anon's who can't write?
>Ones who want to see a story take off, but don't have the means to do so?
Oh I'm sure in 99% of cases their prompt fits in AiE general or Eqg general. Why not post it where it belongs.
I'm happy with what mods have done but I will miss Cadanceposting a little.
>>26912577
So being anon is now role playing?
>>26912633
personally playing as the character anon is, yes. Always has been. You can still probably get away with it as one time jokes, but >hey anon prompt threads were basically designed to fish for those responses and expand on them.
>>26912663
Correction I meant to say. Having anon in anything is now illegal because Anonymous is you.
>>26912711
No, 'Anon' is a character with green skin and a fancy suit. You and I are posters on an imageboard that doesn't require a name by default.
Stories with anon are not going away.
>>26912732
>No, 'Anon' is a character with green skin and a fancy suit.
My sides. Anon is a place holder for YOU. You see that automatic name placed over everyones name that doesnt use a trip? Its Anonymous aka the poster aka every anon story that takes place. Its meant to be YOU.
>>26912814
'Anon' is an expy for all of us, not any specific individual poster. Collectively we are represented by 'anon', but if we individually try to drive the character in our own directions then we are roleplaying as the character.
anon is the sum of the collective, he is not me.
>>26912884
Anon is us collectively and individually.
>>26912907
emphasis on AND
so mods prompt threads that had turned into full fledged stories are going to be deleted too?
>>26909051
not everyone can write, dialogue for me is the main reason i cant.
the will is there... but god dammit i can not write people talking for shit.
>>26914844
whatever, bruh. i just write
>>26910321
>like the based god he is
please leave this board immediately
The only good generals are Flutterrape and Manos.
Told you all the mods weren't going to give up that easily
>>26908104
Why did the mods delete our generals?
>>26915468
>well because they think they can fuck around flopping their dicks everywhere
>and they are massive cocksuckers
>>26915468
Because they have an inner hate for green text by like pencils comic and trap horses apparently
>>26909077
They go to trash well I know where I am going
>>26915468
is it because they think /mlp/ is a shit
We post greens.
Mods tear them down.
/mlp/ does not come back.
If we °°°° the mods, we will save /mlp/.
If we °°° their °°°°° we will become powerful like them.
>>26916093
>censoring yourself
I bet you're one of those faggots that come to /mlp/ to circlejerk exclusively in one general
If all /mlp/ loses from this debacle are people like you I wouldn't mind that much
>>26916111
>>26908104
>mods have always taken a hands-off approach
If the Scruffening was hands-off, what the fuck do they call hands-on?
>>26908834
This.
I wouldn't write if it wasn't for the prompts.
>>26909806
>Taking suggestions = Lack of integrity
What?
You know that we don't really write for ourselves, right? I mean, yeah, we do because we want to, but we also do it to please the masses.
And what's wrong with that? Are we attentionwhoring because of that?
There's no reasons to become a 'content creator' if noone is asking for such content.
>Just post it in AiE or another general
Really? What's the point of the fucking board then?
Let's make it 2 pages long with 7generals and threads 'about the show' then.
>>26916756
I didn't know this was a ylyl thread.
lost.
>>26916864
>>>26908834
>This.
>I wouldn't write if it wasn't for the prompts.
That's what scruffy wants.
>>26917184
I don't know.
At this point it kind of feels like
>mod does something stupid
>"hmm that was kind of stupid"
>"Maybe not do that anymore"
>"uhh, let's make a sticky I guess"
>"Yeah, sounds good, post it"
>"So uh, they'll buy this right?"
>"Yeah, sure."
>"Oh shit, hot pockets are done"
I mean, threads that got deleted before are up again now with no action being taken towards them.
Has anyone tried making some non-shitpost promp threads to test if they stay?
>>26908272
Yeah, that's pretty much true.
>>26908104
Big diddly shit the mods are fucking faggots. Whats new?
>>26917537
yea it's just they get deleted so quick you barely even notice disappear unless you watch that thread til its demise.
>>26917537
their should be a newfag test for mods.
1. define newfagOne whom doesn't understand board culture well enough to contribute in a manner acceptable to its established users
2. You see people are having fun. Do you?
A. ban them blindly.
B. read the discussion to determine validity of banter.
C. get mad.
D. C, A.B
3. Many reports have been filed on a particular post.
A. Ban user
B. read solely that post before banning user.
C. read connected posts to determine relevance.
D. make a new rule then ban user.
E. after C and finding it relevant investigate the reporters and ban them.E
4. Someone is spamming threads
A. ignore completely, as you are the one posting them in a desperate attempt for validation.
B. take note of how often this takes place,if it is disruptive ban user.fite me
5. consistently disruptive user.
A. ban
B. ban.
C Why the fuck isn't site bans a thing anymore?
bring back site bans and disable posting from mobile connections
>>26916093
Oh my fuck I remember those creepy assholes.
>>26917704
What do we do if we have a sudden horrible realization that the Cadence spamthreads may have been made by Scruffy in an attempt to justify his desires to purge the board?
>>26916111
if someone is stupid enough to think narrator pov is roleplay he could be stupid enough to think that changed quotes from a movie are a personal threat
losing people like me means losing people who provide content
whats left is show discussion
over and over and over and over
but you are right about one thing though
i have a home-thread, one i really enjoy
and others i don't frequent that often
i dont get why thats a bad thing
>>26917785
As far as I have been able to ascertain spam threads are created and at least the first 5-7 posts are by the OP,
I conduct tests every so often to determine the level of social engineering going on.
it's relatively simple to ascertain this by creating a thread of a simulate nature and watching it plummet to a 404.
Doing this on /b/ has disturbing results. and sickly implications.
>her dick
>more dicks
>sissy hypno
>momcestwhen clearly not wincest
I think we pissed off Tumblr one to many times.
did someone count the hatethreads?
a compilation would be funny
>>26918089
one thing that needs to change is that mods have the option on whether or not a ban is declared at
https://www.4chan.org/bans
So their is a lot of shit that go unnoticed.
I want to see more transparency with mod activity.
Bamp!
>>26917704
Your mom
D
A
A
A...nah just kidding, B ^:)
Can i be maud nao?
keeek
>>26908104
Cadence, i love you, sorry i didn't say it sooner, but now, the mods, they,
>cries self to sleep
>>26921263
I genuinely looked forward to seeing what the next prompt would be.
They were always comical. may we could convince mod to have a daily prompt thread sticky?
Rest in peace Cadence, you will be missed.
mfw NSFW green is on the chop[ping board now.
>>26921311
I like that idea.I would have something to look foward to everyday. Thanks Anon.
damn, these feels?
>>26908745
>threads/generals contributing actual content get knocked off thanks to prompts and new generals popping up
A thread that generates content/discussion tends to stay afloat regardless of how many other threads are being created. If a thread gets bumped off, then people just weren't interested enough in the topic to keep it alive. Eternal bumpfests, however, are a major problem, and one that we need to resolve.
So, where do we need to go now?
Is ponychan as bad as people say it is?
How about 8ch pone?
Is anyone here browsing those?
At this point I have absolutely no reasons to stay here. All theses generals are shit, and 'prompts' are a no go. And now we can't even meme.
What the fuck
>>26924636
>>26924590
You can't stop thesmoozemod.
>>26908867
>forgive
I will never forgive a mod. What are you? Fucking new or something? Mods work day and night just to stir shit up because they think it's funny to shit on us.
>>26924590
8ch looks promising but its format looks so bad.
>>26917704
6. How many dicks should you suck a day?
A. 1-5
B. As many as you can.
C. None
>>26925886
I know the answer you want. I know the answer I want. But i know the answer that will get me a b&fuck it CRREEEEEEEBELLION
>>26925916
it was an honor
you helped sacrificed yourself to make /mlp/ great again
