/b/ used to be one of the golden examples and
meme generator of 4chan,
a place that as pic related says was a place to lose your humanity
Why is it just porn, shitty "what should i text" threads, kik threads, and general just boring mess
so how can we add a breath of fresh air to that
shithole
have a robot like /r9k/ but have it reset every 24 hours
We can't. Memes are dead, that era is over.
Gotta move on.
We don't need memes. Just make /b/ a redirect to a site we all dislike.
/b/ is a sacrifice, that other boards may live.
Let it go.
>>323747
Thank fucking God /b/ is no longer relevant. I'm glad that cesspool of underageb&s and normalfags finally stopped meming and raiding the rest of the internet.
>>324247
pre-2008 it was bretty good but since '08 it was just a nuisance. Its popularity needed to end.
>>323747
>How can we fix /b/
We don't
>>324240
This desu.
>/b/ used to be one of the golden examples and
>meme generator of 4chan,
I know, just split the board. Since it's a bigger board, we an split it four ways instead of just two. We an have /bu/, /bd/, /bl/, and /br/ for up, down, left and right respectively. I think it's a good idea and will fix shitposting for three months until we split it again.
>>324271
>weeb
This is how we know you browse /b/.
>>324271
Yes, /b/ and /soc/ are one in the same.
Fuck off, normalfags out.
>>324279
>/br/
HUEHUEHUE
>>323747
>Why is it just porn, shitty "what should i text" threads, kik threads, and general just boring mess
Because /b/'s culture, like all cultures, changes over time. It's never, ever going to be like it was 10 years ago, no matter what. So you may as well accept it.
>>323747
>/b/ Rules:
>ZOMG NONE!!!1*
>Note: "ZOMG NONE!!!1" applies to moderators as well.
Increase arbitrary moderation. Public bans for low effort posting, roll threads, boring topics, and shitty porn dump threads.
>>323747
[s4s] now a days is pretty much what /b/ was in 2006
>>324460
True.
I mean the "good ol' days" are never really as good as people pretend it was.
They only do that to make themselves seem cooler.
>>324460
>this post was from 9 years ago
Fuck.
Have Hiro reinstate Snacks
>>324629
snacks hates 4chan
>>324620
What the fuck are you even talking about? Weeaboo and weeb are terms created by /b/.
>>324460
It really isn't. I don't understand why people always say this.
>>323747
Well it seems that "4chan" is reluctant to hire mods for /b/ for some reason.
Rumors about the feds monitoring /b/ aside, this is the biggest problem.
We need people that will crack down on shit that doesnt belong on /b/, or even on 4chan.
Get rid of the "faces of /b/" threads, for example.
I know there isnt a rule against it, but holy shit what kind of raging faggot wants to post his face on goddamned 4chan of all places? Used to, people wouldnt dare do that.
That alone attracts the wrong kind of people to the site. This isnt facebook.
Another example is all the porn threads. /b/ isnt for porn. There's specific boards for porn and people need to use them. People are posting pics of their ex, posting /r/equests, etc.
This is going to sound kind of stupid, but /b/ used to be some kind of gatekeeper for this site.
/b/ is often the first board that people visit when using this site for the first time. And using that board taught people how to post here. If someone didnt want to deal with /b/ then they often simply left.
/b/ used to be filled with gore, really weird porn, racism, trolling, links to viruses, links to more really weird porn, furries (only on Friday, of course), people accidentally revealing their identity and causing a shitstorm, advice on how to create mustard gas, greentext stories, mods banning you because it was funny, and people asking advice on how to beat off onto their sleeping 11 year old cousin and how to get away with doing so.
As much as you all despise that board there actually was some sort of quality requirement before you got told to fuck off.
But now that requirement is gone and it's spreading through the rest of the site. And for some reason people want to blame /b/ itself and not the people going there.
Now how do you fix this shit? Well, faggot I cant tell you. You cant FORCE people to post.
/b/ needs some actual moderators that do something other than make sure people dont post CP and ignore everything else.
>>324689
>hates
Yeah, right.
>>324689
If he hates it then why does he still post here
>>325276
How would you feel if the person you fired kept coming back to your store to ape off your customers?
pretty good way of giving the site the middle finger.
>>323747
You don't want to know how to fix /b/, trust me. Just let it die.
Ban obsession threads (boxxy, chloe, ect.), GET threads (use a post number system similar to the old text boards to help prevent GET threads), porn dumps (we have fucking porn boards, use them), fap roulette threads, and threads like "my name is John" that are posted 10 million times per day.
>>324689
He doesn't hate 4chan, he hates moot
Well one thing is that people should treat /b/ as a place to post anything and not as a place where you can only post stuff the isn't allowed anywhere else.
>>324923
Exactly this
>>324936
Does anyone have Snacks and moot's IRC chat log after he was fired? I remember it being an interesting read.
>>325882
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/W._T._Snacks/Firing_Logs
> moot (10:37:25 PM): thats something im not willing to do, it will die before it gets sold
Was actually just reading this
>>325883
Thank you, anon.
>the quality of a board is assessed by the quantity of its memes
Feel free to take to >>>/s4s/ you fucking retarded teenager
>>323747
Keep /sco/ shit on /soc/
Keep /pol/shit in /pol/
>>325883
>SQ (10:37:01 PM): Again, sell the site you hate so much.
>moot (10:37:25 PM): thats something im not willing to do, it will die before it gets sold
>>326338
It's not surprising his opinion changed over time, when he's constantly being put into legal and money issues. 4chan also grew into something he clearly didn't like nor how we wanted it to become. He even said it, he'd prefer it to return to its roots
>>323747
/b/ is fine.
Why would you want to fix it?
>>326466
>/b/ is fine.
It's been universally regarded as the worst board for quite some time.
>>323747
ban porn and /soc/tier threads
>>323818
that is literally the worst idea I have ever heard. The robot killed my homeboard, I don't need it killing another
>>324229
I don't see why people think /b/ is so bad. It's just "dubs decides" with op delivering only half the time, about the same as always. Meme-making is cancer.
>>324232
you mean like 4chan.org ?
>>328575
we're honestly getting some great ideas here and i think everyone would agree that they would work
it would be game changing and i think it would really revitalize a board that i think the majority of older 4chan users have just begun ignoring
now the more specific boards are generating memes and actual content while /b/ is boring
Honestly, I think part of the problem is that with all of the new boards that have been created, there's jack shit left to post on /b/ that wouldn't be better suited to another board. So you just get left with the normie shitposts and roll threads and the millionth discussion about why atheists may or may not be able to define atheism, featuring cryingchildlikeempress.jpg.
/b/ is the worst and most famous board, and that's perfect as it is. It's like a wall made of shit that no one wants to touch.
>>328593
>The robot killed my homeboard
Fucking post-deactivation newfag. /r9k/ was slowly getting more normie after the first deactivation of the robot. If you want to frogpost go to /b/ or [s4s].
Delete it for two months then bring it back as a hidden board
>>328671
>[s4s].
no pls
>>328655
Then kill /b/. Fuck off-topic crap. Perma-rangeban anyone who only posts on /b/ and /v/.
>>328680
Are you stupid?
Have you ever been here while /b/ was down/unusable for whatever reason?
It's not good.
>>328610
exactly itll be a bit extreme at first but in the long run itll get rid of those 9gaggers and shit
Here's moot's answer from an old /q/ thread:
19 Nov 2012
>>291035
Last month was actually our highest traffic month ever, in terms of unique visitors. Pageviews have gone down as more users use the inline extension and
third-party extension, mobile, and thirdy-party API apps, block analytics JS, etc.
Growth has slowed, but I don't equate that with "dying." If anything, I imagine the site would be a hell of a lot better if we returned to the size it was ~5
or so years ago. So maybe as it "dies," we'll experience another golden age.
>>328829
Are you? You seem afraid of tackling the problem.
what>>329496
The solution is for everyone to just fucking lighten up and stop nagging everyone else about correct meme usage or when is the right time to use memes or who is an oldfag and who isn't. Because all that is doing is causing massive stagnation.
When it comes to humor just let people do whatever the hell they want. Complaining about people who aren't funny or trying to police humor kills the mood way faster than any bad or immature joke ever could, and it makes everyone else question whether there is even a point in creating OC anymore when half the people are just going to call it shit and even get upset at anyone who actually does find it funny.
Personally I'd like it if everyone just stopped using the word meme altogether and just call them "jokes" if you want. Maybe some people just can't handle having a special word for something without treating it like some sacred thing.
Of course nothing will change anyway, at least not as the result of anything we say in this thread.
>>324923
Screencapping for the future
>>329577
>even get upset at anyone who actually does find it funny.
>being this soft on /b/
Good riddance.
>>325883
moot's kind of a passive-aggressive little bitch, huh. Shame
>>329923
And you people wonder why he left.
He isn't even here and that has been YEARS.
People are still talking shit.
Ad a quiz like in Leisure Suit Larry to prevent kids from posting.
>>324923
>This is going to sound kind of stupid, but /b/ used to be some kind of gatekeeper for this site.
Part of the problem is that's not the gateway board anymore, it's /v/ now. For one, you can't scare off undesirables because it's a blue board and really weird porn, gore, and advice on how to beat off onto your sleeping 11 year old cousin is just going to get deleted. And people don't really even get told to fuck off for posting stupid shit anymore because /v/ has gotten way too tolerant of all the wrong things. The quality requirement just does not exist there.
Make a /b/ for porn, renovate the porn boards or ban porn on /b/ all together
>>324923
this, so much this. I may have jumped on the ride in '10, but I remember horror stories about /b/ from '05 and '06 from friends in school, and it kept my underage ass away untill I felt edgy enough to shitpost eben memes.
>>324923
mr. nishimura, this is the solution
>>323747
No one wants to fix /b/ due to the extreme measures it would take. In order to turn things around you'd need to:
> create a trap board and give trap threads the same treatment as mlp (instant bans for off board posts)
> create a fur board with the same features as above
> reintroduced IDs to /b/
> disable dubs on /b/ again
No one wants all that shit to happen, myself included, so /b/ will stay broken. Deal with it.
>>330317
I'm actually surprised that after all this time we've never seriously had a discussion with mods or moot about how to "fix" /b/ or if it's even possible.
(At least that i'm aware of)
>>330328
There were attempts to fix it before but when moot nuked /pol/ he also pulled the plug on those /b/ repair efforts by removing IDs and reintroducing dubs.
When those measures were in place /b/ was actually fairly functional.
>>330317
Something also needs to be done about the endless YLYL, porn webm, and rekt threads. A lot of /b/ is under the assumption that there absolutely needs to be a YLYL thread at every given time of the day, plus some people just don't use the catalog and make their own which just ends up creating more clutter.
>>331939
There does need to be a YLYL thread, but it needs to stand for Yuru Yuri.
>>323747
/b/ got split up, most of the shit /b/ was known for now has a place somewhere else on the site ([s4s], /r9k/, /soc/, and now /trash/)
>>324812
[s4s] definitely does remind me of '06 era /b/, but [s4s] is far too nice and silly in comparison to really be old /b/.
>>330150
/v/'s lack of quality requirement is kind of awful, and it's way easier to have a decent discussion about shit that isn't videogame related at all there than to genuinely talk about games (as opposed to lazy shitflinging and bullshit off-the-cuff canned responses).
I think I only go there just because it's a fast board, the awful quality of posts is getting to me.
>>331939
honestly? those particular topics are like 5-10 of the threads on /b/ at a given time
roll threads are more of a cancer to /b/ than all of those things combined
