>>515854
According to whom?
I stopped posting there, but I'm doing it for really hilarious reasons that l can't get into right now
I wouldn't call [s4s] good, but it is pure in that it's stayed what it started as.
But I cannot for the life of me figure out what's going through any of it's posters heads.
>>515975
>what's going through any of it's posters heads
Probably a fair amount of drugs and/or alcohol
That looks like /b/, circa 2004
>Post something remotely rude
>Get scolded
>No one ever calls the lewd anime threads rude
It's shit.
>>516114
The problem is it isn't actually /b/ circa 2004. It's a bunch of guys being meta about 4chan and posting as if it were /b/ 2004. It's not genuine. It's just a hollow shell, a mere shadow of old /b/. Splitting /b/ into multiple 4chan culture boards was a mistake.
>>516226
>Was a mistake.
Can you imagine 200,000 users on one board ?
>>516254
Why not just ban them?
>>515975
this pretty much
right now s4s is much like it was in the beginning, may 2013 specifically. at both points in time the board was pretty much exactly as inane, but nowadays it's less copypasta and spam unintelligibility and more post-post-post-post-post-meta-post-irony unintelligibility
its really interesting and most of the time funny too
>>516254
It would have died down eventually, as people would stop getting it. Now you have /b/ which doesn't resemble /b/ at all anymore, and you split up what used to be /b/ among various boards that turn into little isolated bubble worlds. One of the best things about /b/ was that you dumped everyone in it, it was universal. You didn't give every variety of wack job and crazy their own little containment board. If you were on /b/ you were forced to put up with the shit every other /b/tard did. No escaping.
>>516299
You're right, moot even made a thread once asking if he should ban porn on s4s since according to moot's post back then, porn is what drove /b/ to shit.
He never ended up banning porn on s4s though but I still think it's manageable if you just ignore
>>516298
/b/ began as something even worse than it is now.
When moot created the site he started requiting people to it from a few different sites I can't remember which one it was but they did exactly what people on 4chan would do now if you tried to self-advertise, they tried to make the site as crap and post offensive things on 4chan.
/b/ in 2003 was just people hating moot and posting cp.
moot began lying about himself and posted pics of some random guy pretending it was him to sound cooler than a teenager.
Then in 2004-2005 they started getting good and 2005 is when the site hit a peak as a whole.
the whole site died in 2006 and quality was never the same except for /b/ which made a comback in 2007 and had its personal peak of quality then.
2008 is when everyone was being recruited to join the site and all the newfags completely destroyed it and it hasn't recovered since then since newfags have been pouring in since.
>>516314
>He never ended up banning porn on s4s though but I still think it's manageable if you just ignore
I've found it really interesting how [s4s] has been able to naturally keep those people away without needing mods. It's not all just ignoring, they've also had success with spamming those threads with ascii art and other stuff, and in cases even taking their own content and using it to spam with.
For example, if someone were to post a rate me thread with a picture of themself and it started to look like /b/-tards were coming over [s4s] wouldn't even get mad, they would just take those pictures, call them "memes" and do all sorts of dumb shit to it in photoshop and spam the board.
>>516298
sounds like you want /trash/ pal
>>516398
[s4s] is great, they're basically untrollable. even when you think you've got them riled up, they're most likely just playing along with you for their own amusement. i'm sure every now and then someone gets genuinely irked at something, but for the most part [s4s] is just there so you can have fun without being serious, and that makes the possibilities pretty endless as far as what you think is acceptable. also mods love that board so they take care of whatever we can't (deleting raid requests, actual porn dumps, shit that literally belongs on /b/, etc.)
>>516424
No /s4s/ can be trolled pretty handily if you talk about how the real cancer killing it is dubs and gets.
>>516424
I wonder if the fact that you can't use tripcodes there has contributed to it becoming what it is.
>>516428
it's a very self-aware board. i will leave it at that
>>516434
absolutely. the ability to impersonate namefigs is a grand tradition dating back to the Gippo Dudee days. there were no less than 3 people posting under that name at a certain point. it's a highly effective method of funposting, and it keeps genuinely ego-crazy people at bay.
>>516226
>It's a bunch of guys being meta about 4chan and posting as if it were /b/ 2004.
Do you actually believe this? [s4s] is just people fucking around. There isn't a deeper meaning behind any of it. It's not trying to be like anything. The only thing [s4s] tries to be is "nice" and thats only ironic in the absurdity of being nice on 4chan.
If anything, [s4s] is the OPPOSITE of /b/.
>>516299
>99
HOLY
>>516523
There is a deeper meaning. It's a parody of 4chan as a whole.
It's not easy to explain why it's fun and liberating, you really just have to try it yourself. Pick something people do on 4chan that you hate.
It could be anything, even something really small like people who reply to a post with just "this", for example. Then go to [s4s] and become a parody of that. Post "this" all over the board. Come up with your own twists, post "this" linking to a post in a different thread for no reason. Make images that have "this" in it.
Sick of memes? Go to [s4s] and become a parody of people who are obsessed with memes. Hell, one time there was a "meme" on [s4s] that was literally just a black line on a white background and it was spammed all over.
They don't actually care about memes or dubs. It's all just blown out of proportion there for humorous effect.
That's how most people use [s4s] and like I said, it can actually be very liberating. One of the most interesting things about that board I think is that everyone someone decided to use it for that purpose without anyone having to actually explain any of this. It's kind of beautiful in away.
If you don't believe anything I've said all you have to do is lurk there for about 10 minutes and there's no way you can miss it.
Dear Hiro, it's time to do something about /s4s/.
The board is just so bad, it's like /b/ had a retarded baby brother. Just awful, but that's not the biggest issue here.
What troubles me is that the board regularly raids other board here on 4chan. They don't raid other sites like /b/ used to do, instead they attack boards on 4chan itself. Just like cancer they attack the host body but poses no threat to others.
A moderator called swaglord controls the board and has built a cult of personality around himself despite the fact that no tripfags are allowed on the board. Who knows what he might be up to next?
Deleting the board might be a bad idea, I fear what they might do then. Instead I suggest you change the board into a safe for work /b/. Call it:
>/s4s/ - Blue /b/
Encourage people to post there and most importantly: allow My Little Pony-content. Doing so will completely cripple the current userbase, they would no longer be a threat to the rest of the site. You should also remove swaglord as moderator of /s4s/, send him off to a hostile board like /jp/.
>>516558
ebin
>>516558
epin
>>516557
this guy gets it
>>516558
etin
>>516557
I probably would've read your post if you had gotten trips but off by two sorry
>>516606
rolling
Calling s4s "good" in that it didn't turn into another /b/ and hasn't yet suffered /b/'s fate. The thing is, while it is better than /b/, the fact that it's about nothing and the stuff there is amusing mostly to 12-14 year olds and the developmentally disabled doesn't make it spectacular either. It just exists.
It's like managing to successfully replant one tiny, ratty patch of rainforest after the rest of it all burned down. Technically it's better than nothing, but it permanently lost the diversity and dynamics of the original.
>>516616
so close
for the glory of the s-force
>>516557
>>516557
>There is a deeper meaning. It's a parody of 4chan as a whole.
Literally red dit: the board.
Also funny how people assume it's old /b/. Majority of /b/tards were anarchic nerds and hackers on steroids. There was a slight underground culture associated with /b/ that was rarely understood by outsiders. If anything, before moot added flags and IDs to /pol/, /pol/ felt more like old /b/ in terms of the people hanging out on the board. The only difference is less emphasis on the hacker mentality (though there was a time when /g/ and /pol/ users talked about bit-coins and technology), and less incentive to create memes.
/s4s/ users are passive aggressive towards /pol/ users. In fact it seems that even mods are against the politics board because someone had reason to create the "keep /pol/ in /pol/" rule regardless of what that actually means. It's easy to assume that anything involving race or discrimination is started by a /pol/ user though it could very likely be a troll attempting to derail thread discussions.
