General threads have no place on most of 4chan. They exist to hole up entire realms of topics when a regular thread would do fine.
They're terrible on /h/, /tv/, /tg/ and all the boards they're on. I'm free to exclude /vg/ since it's part of the board, but if it's not part of the board then general threads and people who post them should get fucked.
It's like having a pokemon general on /vp/ or an mlp general on /mlp/.
>>450038
There is an mlp general on /mlp/.
Generals are hugboxes and sub-boards, the kind if thing endemic to another website.
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>>450038
/pol/ likes occasional generals
eat shit.
>>450055
and by occasional you mean every hour of every day for months. eg trump and syria.
>>450038
I'm sorry that you don't fit in with the people who have a good time and like each other, OP!
>>450131
>wanting to fit in with these retards
>>450142
The idea of being happy around like minded people is foreign to you, I see.
>>450142
That image honestly scares the shit out of me.
>>450410
Ah, so that explains all the brown on the right side.
>>450163
Just post on topic threads and in on topic threads.
There's no need for a 24/7 watch thread general or mechanical keyboard general on /g/. There's no need for a doujinshi general on /h/. There's no need for a Warhammer 40K general on /tg/.
>>450427
I like how you say "need" like 4chan is necessary in the first place.
People WANT mechanical keyboard generals. That's why they exist.
Generals are and have always been miniature forum circlejerks.
It's pretty much the only place people can see trip/namefags on regular basis anymore. And not good trip/namefags mind you.
While I'm glad /vg/ exists, it should've never been made in the first place.
We should've just had heavier moderation on /v/ to remove general threads.
>>450626
Yeah, but nothing's really wrong with all that.
>>450629
That's because you come from a general.
>>450634
Are you sure? Which one do you think I came from?
They can be lethal
>>450635
Doesn't matter. Generals are cancer.
Go to a forum if you want to circlejerk.
>>450634
Oh yeah? Well, you come from a double general.
>>450643
Shit man, Asriel turned me gay from the game alone.
>>450597
There were rules set up in the fucking first place banning them because they are exactly the sort of shit 4chan was created in order to avoid.
Generals shit all over the core values underlying the existence of this site. Sure, you're probably a narcissistic piece of shit who came here after 2007 and don't give a fuck about anyone else online, but some of us actually created a sense of spontaneity and freedom to discuss different things at will. All the disgusting little spergs who came here, uninvited, were offended and confused by this creative discussion so they went out of their way, for years, to make sure the site in general become highly predictable and segmented into hiveminds, were your opinions could be safe in little hugboxes even worse than Tumblr.
I hope you get hit by a truck, cunt.
>>450038
Generals only exist because of an inability to ban them.
I'd be happier with the site if the mods could genuinely remove people.
I'm hoping for shadowbans and/or pseudonymous user accounts in the future. I mean really, the site is overrun with these losers.
>>450670
4chan was created as an image dump for moot and his friends from something awful, you know.
>>450670
I'm sorry, would you please explain to me why general threads existing prevents you from talking about a spontaneous subject? Are you trying to make a spontaneous subject thread about something that's covered in the general? Because that's not very interesting. Have you considered trying to talk about some things that there aren't being talked about by general faggots?
Fuck, man. How are you so stupid? If you get rid of the generals then generalfaggots will infest other boards! Generals make up the MAJORITY of posts on 4chan. What are you trying to DO to the board? You're trying to make the site worse for BOTH general users and non general users like yourself. You know how generals are the only places that people tripfag anymore? Well, where did tripfags trip before generals? That's right. They tripped in every fucking thread.
>>450038
>mlp general on /mlp/.
i don't know if you're trying to make a joke or not, but thats literally a thing that exists
>>>/mlp/26543413
>>450700
>They tripped in every fucking thread.
Which made it easier to filter them
>>450726
But you could just filter the GENERALS!!
>>450795
>muh stuttering meme
Are you?
>>450822
>muh everything is a meme meme and as such its now meaningless meme
Are you?
>>450795
>Filtering a few threads is easier than filtering a poster in every single thread you see.
>>450856
>filtering a single person compared to removing half the fucking board because its all cancer and shitposting
Generals shouldn't be here in the first place and should only be banned. They serve zero fucking purpose and only serve to encourage shitposting.
>>450865
Yeah, but the same can be said about 4chan in general. Have you ever gotten a job by posting on 4chan? Have you ever made a cent from it? When's the last time 4chan has saved a Dusty the Cat from abusive owners? Has it occurred to you that maybe 4chan is for entertainment, and that the people in the generals (who vastly outnumber you, by the way), are being entertained by them, and that your weird wish to exterminate people who are different from you is ridiculous?
>>450941
moot also once said that changes to the site shouldn't came at the cost of your fellow anons. Generals exist for a very very very small minority of the site and come at the cost of removing entertainment and discussion points for everyone else who doesn't participate in a small circlejerking threads.
Don't try pulling the 'b-but people enjoy generals!' card when its incredibly easy to dismiss. A small number of users might love their generals, but they came at the cost of destroying the rest of the board, retard.
>>450953
I can dismiss all of your cards too, Anon.
"No, you're a retard."
>>451010
I can dismiss all of your cards too, idiot.
"No, shit the fuck up, faggot."
>>451014
Anyway, I declare myself the winner of this argument. Thank you for playing.
>>450597
People want to be able to discuss mechanical keyboards. There's nothing to indicate there's a want for a persistant general to always be up.
>>450700
>Generals make up the MAJORITY of posts on 4chan.
Says who?
>Are you trying to make a spontaneous subject thread about something that's covered in the general?
The board is more general than any general. People who post the OP for general threads seem to think they have ownership of the topic they consider their general.
My thoughts on general threads and the mentality of the users that like them:
>This thread about something I like is on page 8/9/10!
>We can't allow a thread about something we like, to die.
>But we have nothing more to talk about right now, and the thread is about to die peacefully on its own due to lack of interest.
>We can't let something we like, die!
>Quickly! Come up with something that will troll/bait people into posting so the thread doesn't die!
>Who cares if the end result is shitposting/trolling/roleplay/porn/pointless posts meant solely for the continued existence of this general/thread!
>Look at how long this thread was up! We proved that we like this series/thing by keeping it up for so long! (Ignore all the rule-braking posts and the fact that 75% of the thread is more of an insult to what the thread originally was made for.)
Stop treating things you like with little to no respect, because it makes you look like an idiot. Stop treating 4chan like your teenage, circlejerk chatroom/forum.
Generals and general-like mentalities are things that 4chan does not thrive on.
>>451279
>Stop treating things you like with little to no respect, because it makes you look like an idiot. Stop treating 4chan like your teenage, circlejerk chatroom/forum.
Why though? 2005 being a teenager on 4chan was my favorite era of 4chan posting. Now that I'm a bitter adult who hates everything, I long to reclaim that youth. General threads help me do that. Sorry my happiness infringes on yours, but I have a sneaking suspicion that if I weren't happy, you'd still find something to get buttmad about.
>>451445
Your happiness in this situation infringes on everyone that doesn't want to act like a stupid kid when discussing the topic of a thread. You don't want 4chan. You need to find a chatroom or standard forum. Your brand of nonsense only snowballs into shitposting threads to the ends of the earth, only to do it all again in the next thread. You don't want to talk about the topic. You just want to talk. Shut up, find some friends, and take the heavy crap off of 4chan. I'd know about this kind of thing, because I fell victim to it a year ago, and found my way out. I saw how I was a problem, and decided to do something about it.
>>450066
SAAnime!
>>451529
Actually, see, the thing is, you have no say in what I do, but it's adorable that you think you do.
I can do whatever the hell I want and if I get banned, so be it, but until I do, nothing you do, say, think, or ball up your fist and hold your breath over is going to change anything. Every word you said to me applies to you as well except for the specific relevance to general threads.
You're welcome to come play with me if you want, though I warn you, it takes some getting used to and you might be bad at it and decide that it sucks.
/int/ is like 80% generals. Then again, it's a board for shitposting, so removing generals wouldn't make it any better.
>>450045
/mlp/ generals are the life blood of the board during hiatuses. It's not like /tg/, /tv/, and /co/ that have a wider pool of topics to pull from.
>>451445
General's style of posting is so far removed from any 2005 style posting that your claim is utterly ridiculous. It's more like a Gaia HOT from the same age.
The reason I don't like generals is because they create an attitude among the userbase that you should "fuck off to the general" and not create a new thread about topic x.
My freedom is being taken away from me.
>>451818
EPIC!
>>451826
People will tell you to fuck off back to r-eddit, generals, tumblr, gaia, facebook, or whatever regardless of what options they have to tell you which one to leave to.
You're supposed to just ignore them and make your thread anyway. Are you new?
>>451936
The difference here anon, is that with the general mentality, if you post something outside of its cancergeneral you will only get the 'fuck back off to your general' replies and no one will take your thread seriously, you fucking retard.
There isn't a single good thing about generals, and containment isn't a good thing either.
>>451939
You just said the same thing twice and I didn't agree with you the first time.
Make your thread. If nobody wants to talk about your thread, people will tell you to fuck off, and if there happens to be a general, then they'll tell you to fuck off to the general. If not, they'll participate in your thread anyway.
People didn't stay in the Star Wars general, you know. People didn't stay in Undertale General. Meanwhile, shitty things like Steven Universe? People outside the general hate that show.
Do you understand? Are you new? Do you forget how 4chan works? People aren't obligated to like your gay little thread, you crybaby.
>>451942
And no one is obliged to like or not shitpost and destroy your faggot circlejerking generals that constitute of 5 people that take over half a board so a small number of people can shitpost. You seem to be trying really hard to change this discussion from about why generals should even be allowed to making the problem stem from people who dislike them. Just because you like that, doesn't mean its a valid reason for them to be there and there isn't any valid reason to have a general on 4chan at all. If there is, please provide it?
>>451950
There's no valid reason to have 4chan at all. Generals don't need a valid reason to exist on a website with no reason to exist. What can be asserted without evidence can be ignored without evidence. I'm just here to make sure you don't go home thinking that nobody disagrees with you when you spout nonsense and hold your breath till you turn blue.
>>451952
You sure are going to win arguments with that garbage that makes no sense, anon. You should be a philosopher, it sounds like it'd suit you!
Remember to kill yourself for being a retard.
>36/150 general threads
>24% of the board
>>451956
I already won in my own mind and have just been taking victory laps every time I get a new (You).
>>451979
You even missed a few on your own image.
Let's ignore the quest threads which are rolling generals too, you missed:
Black Library general
L5R general
MTG/EDH Commander General
MTG Modern General
MTG General: lands edition
The Adventurers Guild
Fantasy Craft General
Lost Source general
So by your own count that's 44/150
With the 13 quest threads, which are also rolling generals?
We're up to 57/150 threads. And this honestly looks like a good day for /tg/ as there are 'only' 13 quest threads up.
>>452112
No, that's about average for /tg/ quests. A dozen or so is par for the course since about mid 2013.
They should be removed from /int/
>open /int/
>/lat/, /ex-yu/, /brit/, /fr/, /eire/, /deustch/, /cl/, /korean/, /isis/, /nederdraad/, /ita/, /belarussia/, /isr/, /me/, /carib/, /japanese/, /cum/, /usa/, /luso/, /balt/, /sverige/, /cp/, /v4/, /mammi/, /Norgetråden/, /mena/, /balk/, /desi/, /afr/, /polska/, /rus/
+ a few duplicate generals.
>>452580
Disgusting
>>451996
Here's another one, maybe you'll lose the fat one day!
>>450142
This is extremely accurate for desktop threads on /g/
I saw this idea on /g/ a while back: What about a "bump to page 2" option? For example when posting you could put "page2" or something in the options field and the thread would bump up to page 2 instead of the front page.
Generals wouldn't be half as annoying if they didn't clutter up the front page of a board.
>>453908
If the generals are already completely clogging the first page, you can emulate this by just going to page 2 yourself. Or just use the catalog like a civilized person.
>>453925
>Or just use the catalog like a civilized person.
I'll never agree with this view that the catalog is for 'smart' or 'civilized
person. Sure, it's useful, but that's it. It drains a huge chunk of fun and enjoyment from browsing the site. It is something that should of never been made first party and stayed third party and needs to be removed.
>>453925
Generals should be deleted and shouldn't exist. They're hangout threads which don't stay on topic. There's no need for a persistant thread when a new thread on a part of the overtopic would do fine.
>>454741
According to some people, "a new thread on a part of the overtopic" is a general unless it specifically asks a single question or small group of questions and is then immediately abandoned after the question(s) have been answered.
I'm not arguing anything, I just think it's funny that those people exist.
>>454748
It is a general when it contains the exact same people as always and is constantly and regulatory made.
>>451979
If you counted posts that number is probably much much higher.
>>450038
Can we make as many threads as we want about the topic then?
mods banned /got/ generals, but then started deleting any threads about the show in general. i don't care if you hate it, this isn't a way to run a television board.
/thread
>>455479
swaglord runs the board, and he's the biggest faggot of a mod on here. It's also a known fact moot and all the mods hate /tv/.
You are correct, OP.
Generals ruin every board they exist on.
The only time I accept anything resembling a general is for rare events.
Chat rooms have no place on imageboards.
>>450670
>all this mad
wew
>>452580
between the existence of /his/ and /pol/ the chatroom generals are the core topic of /int/ nowadays.
>>455648
They could be fun, but only if all generals globally are shoved into one containment board.
And ban fucking tripfags.
>>456017
They'd find new things to talk about if the generals were purged.
I didnt give a shit either way about generals until they destroyed the friendly and helpful /toy/ board culture literally overnight.
Fuck generals.
>>453979
Should *have never been made
-friendly intelligent catalog user :^)
>>456837
everytime
I love generals, leave em alone. The only thing you need to change is banning people for posting "post yfw" in them which uses up the image limit
>>456863
Generals are shit. Your chatroom threads are better served on actual forums.
generals are ruining /g/. can we just split the board already?
>>455498
underrated post
