>low post count=opinion discarded >user ranks >forum cliques and "families" >epeen mods >forum drama >necroing obsession
I'm good
Quite literally all of these problems exist with discord.
In fact, it's even worse with discord, especially the epeen ranks and drama
You simply cannot escape this shit without going nearly full anonymous and even then it doesn't help completely.
Also the slowness of posting.
If you want a chatroom, use a chatroom. Forums are not chatrooms.
On a forum, you could have a 10k+ posts homie waltz into your thread with an off-hand joke and derail it completely to everyone's applause. Same shit, different flavor.
You're 100% full of shit and have never used a forum before. That shit never fricking happens. Meanwhile you ask a question in discord and 2 seconds later it's forgotten about because the egirl troony wants to know how cute his cat looks just after you asked, and didn't use the right channel for it but it doesn't matter because simps and troony enablers give them a pass on everything. You start a thread on a forum and even if the first post is the egirl posting her cat someone is gonna answer your question anyway.
some of you posting shit about forums have so obviously barely even fricking used them
Discord is good for your close friends and small group discussions, it's fricking awful for larger groups and communities - that's when forums start being great. They're basically inverse to each other. You get far worse abuses and behaviour from large discord groups than you'll EVER see on a forum. There is just something inherent to discord that makes larger communities absolute trashheaps
>That shit never fricking happens
Except it did, you fricking moron.
If you never saw it, chances are you were the obnoxious mongrel derailing conversations.
I remember seeing countless threads where someone would ask a question in the hopes of getting their problem fixed and some 50k post karma homosexual would make an inside joke and everyone would join in. Nobody ever answered the fricking question.
Most of the time they were buddies with the mods so if you ever dared to call them out on their stupid behavior, you would be the one getting bonked.
>Meanwhile you ask a question in discord and 2 seconds later it's forgotten about because the egirl troony wants to know how cute his cat looks just after you asked, and didn't use the right channel for it but it doesn't matter because simps and troony enablers give them a pass on everything.
I could tell you it doesn't happen either, because I don't go to servers with homosexual trannies. Meanwhile, on forums you would regularly get shit-eater vets repeating the same replies redirecting users to FAQ without even reading the OP and moderators closing threads immediately after, with everyone trying to ask about the same thing getting whopped for not using the search bar. Because that's what happened.
>You simply cannot escape this shit without going nearly full anonymous and even then it doesn't help completely.
The solution is forced anonymity plus a token yearly subscription. If Ganker cost $10 a year for everyone it would be the best board in the universe.
SA is proof against this.
Whether they have usernames or are anonymous, any sort of monetary barrier for entry deters mostly mild-mannered and sincere people (along with a lot of kids and some gays), and instead invites megagays who will quickly shape that insular community into an elitist shithole with terrible opinions and thin skin, constantly beset by the best trolls who are willing to pay a nominal fee so they can frick with the forum for a year's worth of entertainment.
He’s a fed, don’t worry guys you don’t have to take him seriously.
SA is proof against this.
Whether they have usernames or are anonymous, any sort of monetary barrier for entry deters mostly mild-mannered and sincere people (along with a lot of kids and some gays), and instead invites megagays who will quickly shape that insular community into an elitist shithole with terrible opinions and thin skin, constantly beset by the best trolls who are willing to pay a nominal fee so they can frick with the forum for a year's worth of entertainment.
>PM'd you the fix >You must be registered to view this link >You must be approved by moderation to view this link >You must have over 10 posts to view this link >Broken links >Necro
no
Just so you know, at least 20% of that on the internet is me unironically. i would lookup obscure problems on tech forums for fun, "PM'd you the fix" or post a dead rapidshare link knowing it'd make homosexuals like you seethe decades into the future.
compared to today >no results from web search >answer is in some discord server you don't even know about hidden within a random post from 2 and a half years ago in general discussion
>being able to insult people unrestrained (...) that is an absolute requirement for a free society
What a moronic statement. All the fake niceness that your autistic brain is too impaired to comprehend is a part of the greater teamwork that propels humanity to progress. The societal decay since 20th century is a direct consequence of people defying norms worked out through centuries.
>teamwork that propels humanity to progress
a fake niceness facade is not teamwork. it's just a self-preservation tactic in this clown world we live in
A free society allows one to call one-another morons freely, because there are contextual differences in its use. Ones too complicated for the likes of you to understand, because you are only capable of black and white tunnelvision, but which better adjusted people can pick up on easily when seen/used.
its not when you hear that the metrics of Ganker include an insane amount of indians in the last few years and that the large majority of india has aparantly already been banned on Ganker for spamming and scamming, hence the new rule for email verification.
>being able to insult people unrestrained (...) that is an absolute requirement for a free society
What a moronic statement. All the fake niceness that your autistic brain is too impaired to comprehend is a part of the greater teamwork that propels humanity to progress. The societal decay since 20th century is a direct consequence of people defying norms worked out through centuries.
Yes. Even if you don't participate, I think its important for people to be allowed to call me whatever they want to without fear of being punished for it.
god remember when web design had soul?
This is perfect. No adds, no sidebars for other wikis, no shitty pop-ups of their own playthrough fighting the monsters, Easily readable text and font, good layout, quick links at the top so you don't have to search for what you want, etc.
>Meanwhile you ask a question in discord and 2 seconds later it's forgotten about because the egirl troony wants to know how cute his cat looks just after you asked, and didn't use the right channel for it but it doesn't matter because simps and troony enablers give them a pass on everything.
I could tell you it doesn't happen either, because I don't go to servers with homosexual trannies. Meanwhile, on forums you would regularly get shit-eater vets repeating the same replies redirecting users to FAQ without even reading the OP and moderators closing threads immediately after, with everyone trying to ask about the same thing getting whopped for not using the search bar. Because that's what happened.
>use the search theres already a thread >wtf why are you necroposting? banned
This. Although smaller sized forums are usually a bit better, they still suffer from the same issues at a small scale.
2chan/Ganker/etc. has the format mostly ideal. I think we should have thread IDs for each thread, especially now that the IP count is gone. I would also love to get rid of bots, but sadly that is impossible.
>"Stop making identical threads, use the search function and post in those threads" >"Stop necroing old threads!"
That's reddit, the entire function of Reddit is so fricked.
Like I play Dota and Reddit is like the only community that exist now since they deleted the playdota forums.
So if you make a post in the Dota reddit it won't be shown because you need higher "Karma" and you don't even know that your comment isn't shown to anyone else or how much Karma you need.
So to get more Karma everyone outright tells you to just post the most bot-like threads and comments possible on the big subreddits like /misc/ics/ which means posting "Republican's BAD!" or "Orange man BAD!" to get more Karma.
And after you've done all this bullshit and are finally allowed to participate in the Dota discussion by posting unrelated crap to Dota you have to post something that Reddit currently agrees on, if you happen to post some unconventional opinion you will be downvoted and now you are no longer allowed to post on the Dota subreddit again.
So ALL posts and comments are just people posting safe opinions and there's no discussions because people don't dare to voice their real options because of the karma system.
The entire site is so fricked.
Reddit has it set-up so bad, even down to the terrible UI and nearly worthless search function. Sadly its active user base means you can get an answer usually within a week versus hoping someone sees and answers your post in a dead forum. The smaller sized subreddits are usually better because they are slower and the few posts made are genuine/helpful. >inb4 go back
I wouldn't have to even go there if people here would be helpful instead of responding to troll and inflammatory posts all the time. If you want an answer here you usually have to post the wrong answer and hope someone corrects you.
Tene was a c**t. Any fun thread and she'd shit on it. The mods ab brought on after the forums came back and lost 90% of its user base were somehow even worse.
Yeah, I'm glad reddit killed forums. I've been an active member of over a dozen forums and every single one of them was run by power tripping butthole mods. Coming to Ganker from forums was incredibly liberating, and I never looked back.
reddit is the intelligence community's attempt to control online discussion through the worst possible format they could think of, where everything is predicated on thought and speech control and aligning public sentiments with authority. Reddit is the forum as a concept with all the good parts sifted out. It is distilled garbage. People didn't abandon forums because of reddit, they did so because Ganker offered all the same discussions as forums with much less mod homosexualry and more freedom.
Everyone with a brain either uses Ganker or discord, nobody but dumbfricks uses reddit for anything but a search term appendage
and anyway it's because of all the special interests that astroturf here. however at least here you can tell them to their faces to frick off with impunity (more or less). shills on reddit? they get super special protection from moderators, content policy, TOS, etc. not only that, the userbase are open maw drooling moronic to the point that they couldn't even conceive of the notion that they're being monitored by said special interests. there's a reason reddit is a circlejerk - it's engineered to be that way. more or less, forums are the exact same thing, they're effectively subreddits in all but appearance.
RPGCodex here, I don't notice that much difference. A lot of the Codex holds back because they're insecure about how they might be perceived. Cleve's the only one who goes full out without regard for consequence. And even Cleve has been more restrained recently. He isn't the shitposting genius he was back in the early '10s. He's more like your average boomer guy nowadays.
Necroing in general pisses me off. So you want people to keep making new topics rather than continuing one long topic? This isn't an imageboard, the topic doesn't just disappear into the ether, it's there permanently.
asking a question about a topic thats been asked several times before and then getting warned about asking that question it vs necroing an old topic is the absolute worst
and you need craft beautiful, long replies, or your useful posts are ignored by OP or other users, most forums put huge, empty space between posts and users expect long replies for fill the gap
What's funny is a lot of those things are still relevant today but a certain generation of people choose not to believe it.
cliques and "families"
Discord and Discord raids. Also no female goes without orbiters so basically every site since the 90's
mods
Literally fricking everywhere, Ganker, reddit, facebook, twitter, and last but not least Discord
drama
Turned into politics and culture war drama
Yeah the jannies here are really selective and a lot of the time the resident schizos of any given board are friends with one or a janny themselves. Had an experience with that the other day. I kind of like the forum format better tbh it's just that there aren't really many left and the ones that do remain have a median age of 50, are overmoderated to the point where you might as well just post on Reddit instead, or in fringe cases are filled with the worst kinds of people (kiwiBlack folk, shartytroons)
I'd much prefer hanging around boomers than terminally online wannabe oldgays who will dig up every shred of your personal information if you so much as do the online equivalent of showing ankle and/or step out of line from the hivemind circlejerk. You will never be an oldgay and you are far more psychotic than the people you stalk.
stop sharing your actual name online and it will stop happening you massive homosexual. If you want to become an eceleb, you deserve everything coming to you.
This pretty much. Most forums were fine if you were a nameless observer or a member that got along with the community but all too often things fell to shit over petty drama and power tripping mods. These exact same things still happen with discords but at least with forums you might stumble across useful on long dead forums info thanks to google, before SEO bullshit ruined everything that is.
That's fair, but the Black folk over on the Codex know their RPGs....
Okay, let me rephrase, certain posters on there know RPGs and honestly it's worth joining just to get their takes.
>low post count=opinion discarded
Yes, correct. >user ranks
I guess we have pass users here. >forum cliques and "families"
We have avatargays, tripgays, namegays and entire mentally ill schizos that are well known in some generals on /vg/ and Ganker. >epeen mods
100% applies to here, especially the troony jannies that spend all day ERP in IRC >forum drama
This happens x10 here, especially with twitter screenshot threads >necroing obsession
"Bump"
"Bump"
"Bump"
A lot of things you complain about forums are worse on Ganker.
> We have avatargays, tripgays, namegays and entire mentally ill schizos that are well known in some generals on /vg/ and Ganker.
Ya but aren’t most of them not taken seriously anyway? It’s not like anyone is dying to hear what Manlettears or what Boco has to say.
cliques and "families"
the worst is when they'd all gang tackle anyone who went against the consensus on any topic with the usual "i can't even..." "seriously? lol" shit
cliques and "families"
the worst is when they'd all gang tackle anyone who went against the consensus on any topic with the usual "i can't even..." "seriously? lol" shit
Holy shit this one is especially terrible. I’ve seen first hand a bunch of morons on a coming together and forming some dumb “council” like as if they’re Roman’s or some shit when I was 12. Most of these dudes were grown ass men doing this shit on a forum about video games for a kids game. They were literally gatekeeping being called a [forum name]er if you didn’t suck up to whoever belonged in their gay little clique. God forbid you have an opinion that their gay “council” doesn’t agree with, now you’re SOL.
Frick no. They weren’t even actual jannies. Not to say the actual jannies were much better. They were more hands off than anything and even when they did show up they’d get butthurt real easily. But at least those jannies got paid and had “power.” The “council” just did this shit for free.
>They were literally gatekeeping being called a [forum name]er if you didn’t suck up to whoever belonged in their gay little clique
Based, the complete of opposite of Ganker nowadays. This place has been raided by twittergays and discordgays and now it's a shell of it's former self.
He was probably an attention prostitute himself and that’s why he’s upset “Ganker is a former shell of itself.” Like as if you need some gay little clique to fight off against shitter and diddlecord raiders. He doesn’t have that forum status anymore and resents losing the one thing that gave him the closest thing to respect.
>God forbid you have an opinion that their gay “council” doesn’t agree with, now you’re SOL.
So the same in every fricking place, then? If you don't agree that a game like The Last of Us 2 is woke garbage, then you're immediately ostracized here. Seriously, what's the difference?
> Yeah, instead it's large groups of morons LARPing as nazis or trannies and are dedicated to get a reaction out of you.
Not my fault they succeed at pissing you off. I’m not a fan of either group, but I’d rather them than having game discussions and attempts at having fun be derailed by suckups trying to get in the good graces of attention prostitutes. >Big improvement, amirite
Considering how most discussion is actually about video games and not forum politics and which attention prostitutes to suck up to, yeah. I’d hate to live in a world where tripgays are worshipped and have their own council that decides what Ganker talks about.
They are instead determined by discord trannies that are censoring anything that goes against their cult ideology and CCP.
If you post the statistics how likely it is for PS5 /r/ users/owners to be also in blacked reddit and cuckold reddit, its going to break the build for BBC janitor's mind.
Not really. You will get replies saying the gameplay is generic 3rd person and isn't that important. Ganker has too many users dedicated for shitposting or concern trolling.
These are just shit tests for your opponent. If he's gay enough to care about any of this and not about your argument - he is transgender and dark skinned and his shitty opinions can be safely disregarded. The forum is doing you a favor by filtering gays.
And then you can blacklist them to never have to see their homosexualry again, unlike this shithole where some homosexual can suck a troony janny's dick and be allowed to samegay as 3 people talking to himself about how awesome and talented and based of a pedophile he is for a third of the fricking thread and you just have to pretend he isn't there, lest you trigger the sperg and he will shitpost unchallenged for three quarters of the thread.
>Nobody ever said forums were better.
Ganker says that every other day. Other than that, you're right. Forums had identical social dynamics to what Discord has today, the only way they were objectively better in is search engine indexability.
>Forums had identical social dynamics to what Discord has today,
on a forum you could keep a decent conversation going for days
on discord someone will come in "UGH I'M FEELING SO DYSPHORIC TODAY" and kill the convo instantly
On a forum, you could have a 10k+ posts homie waltz into your thread with an off-hand joke and derail it completely to everyone's applause. Same shit, different flavor.
>This site is where you get away from that shit.
Yes where instead we have circlejerks where one unhinged schizo neet replies to himself 50 times and blatant astroturfing.
Would limiting the number of posts to a thread fix this problem? For example, only can post 3 times in a thread per IP count? I'm guessing they would just get around this using a VPN, so maybe such a rule would only punish the do-gooders?
>Replying to me with this low postcount and a newer join date
Banned. >Bumping a thread that's old.
Stop necroing. Your ban has been lengthened.
Also, this thread is very similar to another one from ten years ago.... Locked.
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Would limiting the number of posts to a thread fix this problem? For example, only can post 3 times in a thread per IP count? I'm guessing they would just get around this using a VPN, so maybe such a rule would only punish the do-gooders?
That would be fricking moronic, you couldn't have conversations.
Kinda in line with search engine indexability, one thing that bothers the shit out of me with Discord is the fact that when you come back to a channel where a conversation has moved on (or even if you've been pinged), it doesn't actually load where you left of or where you were pinged, resulting in you sometimes having to scroll through a fricking ton of inane conversation just to find the useful shit you were reading through earlier again.
On a forum or imageboard I can just bookmark a link to a thread or post, or just keep a tab open. I can't stand trying to find information about games etc on Discord servers because of shit like this, and it seems like anymore the majority of games' community resources are all kept on Discord these days. Discord or reddit or shitty youtube videos in either annoying eceleb or pajeet powerpoint presentation flavors.
the search options in a discord is fine. Do people just not know how to use it? you can combine any of these things together in a search. the only possible hindrance is the user not having access to certain channels but thats no different than a forum.
no, i dont care if people use it, im just explaining that the search function is fine. its literally 1000x easier to find something than say, Ganker, twitter, resetera, tumblr, rpgcodex, f95zone, etc etc.
I would say that the search function in discord is exactly how it should be for other platforms.
I have literally met people in real life through Discord, and they've become genuine friends.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Yeah, same with ICQ. Still isn't
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
i actually met my gf like this. i think the people who have a hateboner for discord are most likely socially inept and dont know how to make friends or understand how discord even works. no one is forcing them to join the servers with shitty sjw moderation but thats what they focus on.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>still evading criticisms with personal attacks
WONT GET FOOLED AGAIN
NO-NO!
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
anon i already that literally 0 people care if you use discord. the only one missing out potentially is you.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
already said*
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Thank you for your concern, but I have Jesus
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>he worships a dead israelite who was raised by a his cuckold stepfather
no, i dont care if people use it, im just explaining that the search function is fine. its literally 1000x easier to find something than say, Ganker, twitter, resetera, tumblr, rpgcodex, f95zone, etc etc.
I would say that the search function in discord is exactly how it should be for other platforms.
The key part there is "in discord". You can't get to any of that content by searching Google or navigating the site with a web browser, you're forced to sign up for some homosexual third-party chat program and join that specific server before you can even attempt to find anything. And if Discord ever goes out of business or some moron has a meltdown and deletes a bunch of shit, then whatever you were looking for is destroyed forever because it's impossible for third-party archive sites to access any of it.
>no goy listen you NEED to let big corporations and websites sell your data so that you can be spied on and better advertise to
There is literally 0 downside to privacy. Frick off shill.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>privacy >discord
I see the consensus cracka-ass crackas have arrived
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
i would love to see any evidence of the contray. PSN has been hacked like 4x now so everyone who uses it had all of their info stolen. But discord? what evidence is there at all that peoples data is not secure. Remember the only reason that Nintendo was able to catch yuzu was because they literally had a guy join the server and record things. If there was some kind of privacy exploit or leak they would not have had to do that. Nintendo is insanely rich.
this shit is embarrassing
lol. lmao, even
I am not shilling discord, I am merely asking for evidence for the claims that discord is either selling peoples data or letting other companies have access to it.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
If you're wanting Assange leaks you'll be waiting, but check out the founder's history.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>I am not shilling discord
you literally plugged the paid service of discord
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>you literally plugged the paid service of discord
are you fricking moronic? someone asked me how discord is monetized, i replied with the means by which discord is monetized. Learn to fricking read a discussion you moronic newbie.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>talk about something in discord with somone >30 seconds later it's recommended to you on youtube
look I'm not a schizo but this has happened far too many times for me to think its a coincidence anymore.
>They all degenerate into circlejerking and moronic moderation
Accurate.
No good online community stays good for long.
Powertripgays and alwaysonlines will stick around until all the normies have been driven out of town.
At this point if the forum is totally dead these shitters will find another community to ruin BUT SOMETIMES they hit critical mass as a group and troon out together.
>you must make X posts before being able to make a thread >you must give "thanks" X times before being able to post >you must send the moderator pictures of yourself dressed up as a femboy with a sign saying "daddy admin pls let me post"
>"Stop making identical threads, use the search function and post in those threads" >"Stop necroing old threads!"
That's reddit, the entire function of Reddit is so fricked.
Like I play Dota and Reddit is like the only community that exist now since they deleted the playdota forums.
So if you make a post in the Dota reddit it won't be shown because you need higher "Karma" and you don't even know that your comment isn't shown to anyone else or how much Karma you need.
So to get more Karma everyone outright tells you to just post the most bot-like threads and comments possible on the big subreddits like /misc/ics/ which means posting "Republican's BAD!" or "Orange man BAD!" to get more Karma.
And after you've done all this bullshit and are finally allowed to participate in the Dota discussion by posting unrelated crap to Dota you have to post something that Reddit currently agrees on, if you happen to post some unconventional opinion you will be downvoted and now you are no longer allowed to post on the Dota subreddit again.
So ALL posts and comments are just people posting safe opinions and there's no discussions because people don't dare to voice their real options because of the karma system.
>if you happen to post some unconventional opinion you will be downvoted and now you are no longer allowed to post on the Dota subreddit again.
I'm perfectly fine giving my opinion without having to use words. Not everything needs to be a discussion.
This is the only social networking site I have ever used with downvotes. Are they misused sometimes? Yes. But overall it a person constantly gets downvoted there is a reason, and as a user I appreciate the feedback.
Again, not everything has to be a discussion
It is and that's because they gatekept their community and kept their toxic atmosphere and drove away snowflake troony morons who can't handle being called out rather than embracing notoriety and growing their userbase
>rpg codex
rpg gays have always been insufferable dickwads who wanked off shit games because of muh writing. the only people who like them are slavs and trannies. >verification not required
meanwhile on Ganker >intense paranoia complex regarding "shilling" whenever a single indie game is posted (meanwhile there's always 20 threads up about the AAA fotm) >never knowing when an entire thread is one guy samegayging >no incentive to write long effortful posts because threads die after 25 minutes with no bumps >absolutely no way to vet someone's opinions or claim to knowledge by checking their post history; there are no proven 'authorities' on subjects such as a poster who always accepts and wins Fightcade challenges so you know he's not a poseur, or a poster who often posts fanart so you know his opinions on graphics can be backed up
>no incentive to write long effortful posts
If I'm not shitposting, I get no (you)s. If I put any effort into a post, or try to have a conversation, ignored. Its been like this for the past decade. But I'm too socially crippled to use other platforms.
>meanwhile there's always 20 threads up about the AAA fotm
The shilling is annoying, the most recent example being the Tomb Raider remaster spam, but I don't know what the answer is. This place still provides a different, free format than anything else on the internet, they're complementary.
only a fifth of those threads are actual discussions, the rest are worthless slide threads with an OP basically asking a question or saying X facet of the game is gay; essentially shitposters who are making a pointless thread rather than posting in the main thread just to get attention
Ganker is about posting whatever the frick you want, when you want to. If your thread sucks it dies.
Generals are unironically one of the biggest cancers killing this place. Ever since they started ~2010 original content production dropped off a fricking cliff. Morons like you just want your repetitive slop content, searching out your favourite general where no actual discussion is taking place because everything's been talked to death 2000 threads ago and it's all just drama filled garbage.
Back when we didn't have generals threads, if you wanted to talk about something you just fricking started a thread asking the questions or posting what you wanted. You didn't look for the fricking general like some effeminate cuck to "post properly".
99% of the generals are even worse than just slop content for morons incapable of holding a conversation. They're full on shill brigade product advertisements literally run by marketing agencies who hire people to post them here like they would on reddit and facebook.
If you actually LIKE generals threads you are part of the cancer that is killing Ganker
I completely and 100% agree. I remember /tg/ when it wasn't drowned in generals, every thread an interesting topic; now it's just the same boring shit.
Generals CAN be good ok? I haven't gone to /ic/ in a while but for boards like that generals are kinda necessary to have easy access to reference images and shit, but yeah /vg/ sucks so fricking much is not even funny, I swear the only good thing that has come out of it is the football matches
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>is the football matches
That's the worst fricking thing from /vg/
Except most posts on Ganker are shallow half-baked proclamations of feelings rather than what you could call "content", and most of the time any attempt to draw out something more substantial results in tantrums, name-calling, and dismissive 'zingers' meant to posture as tough.
Most posts on Ganker are just very hivemind to me. b***hing about trannies, talking about game censorship (it's always about an edgy joke or loose outfit), or being adamant that the main cause for poor game quality is the number of Black folk at the studio.
It's like reddit without karma sometimes where people just post an opinion that plays well to the hivemind.
>thanks for the input frickwit
I called you a bot, because you people act like bots sometimes Black person. Get some thicker skin, I think it's fricking gay they censor breasts too.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Consistent concern about an issue isn't bot behaviour. You have no strong convictions about anything, so you are confused and lash out at your superiors when you see them care about an issue for longer than a week.
>Don't hold me accountable for my actions! >Right now is all that matters! >Unless I disagree with you... then every bad thing you've ever sa-I'M NOT A HYPOCRITE!!!
It says a lot that, despite everything you posted being true, Ganker is still the best place on the internet for discussion. It makes me scared that AI is going to be the final nail of online discussion. After all, it don't gotta be good, it's just gotta be better than all the shitholes on the internet to win.
no way to vet someone's opinions or claim to knowledge by checking their post history; there are no proven 'authorities' on subjects such as a poster who always accepts and wins Fightcade challenges so you know he's not a poseur, or a poster who often posts fanart so you know his opinions on graphics can be backed up
Thats a good thing go back puk3
no way to vet someone's opinions or claim to knowledge by checking their post history;
This is the number 1 thing ruining forums, Reddit, discord etc. homosexuals like you who NEVER engage with what someone has written.
Instead you open their profile and immediately look for some incriminating shit so you can score points. have a nice day
You were doing well until that last point. What you get with that is popularity contests where those "authorities" of yours can shut down discussion even when they're the one that's wrong. And a culture of self censorship and echo chamber creation where people are afraid to say anything that goes against the grain because gays will try to win arguments not by actually engaging with them but by digging through the other person's posts to find something to discredit them. People who are actually important and whose importance is relevant to the topic at hand can prove it on a thread by thread basis, like an artist posting a work in progress.
The incentive to write long effortful posts happens out of ANGER homosexual. I've seen plenty of people make fricking essays about Armored Core or something to respond to bait
>meanwhile there's always 20 threads up about the AAA fotm
The shilling is annoying, the most recent example being the Tomb Raider remaster spam, but I don't know what the answer is. This place still provides a different, free format than anything else on the internet, they're complementary.
The answer is to simply increase the number of thread slots so that threads with three replies don't push out good threads that happen to be slow. If Ganker has 10x the number of threads post quality would shoot up dramatically, or at least quality threads would last longer and be more fruitful.
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>mfw the old forums are still up from 20 years ago with the same shitty header
Not all of it, but some of it. Bravenet must just be letting most everything ride.
Where the frick are you supposed to go other than here? altchans all fricking suck nowadays and are also almost completely dead, reddit's entire system completely kills any possibility for discussion, most forums are infested with power hungry mods, twitter/ tumblr is filled with californians and Discord is a fricking honeypot for pedos, this place isn't the best, it's filled with schizos and teenagers, but sometimes I enter a good thread and have fun in it, unlike the other sites that make me want to pull out my eye sockets every waking moment I'm in them
>this place isn't the best, it's filled with schizos and teenagers, but sometimes I enter a good thread and have fun in it, unlike the other sites that make me want to pull out my eye sockets every waking moment I'm in them
Pretty much sums it up. The internet as we knew it is dying, just enjoy what little bits you can before it's gone for good.
They want to, after what happened with the girl with glasses they really REALLY want to It's so bad you can't even post her name here or else you get insta permabanned
>search on google for a problem >find some old forum >they upload a pic or something for the solution >"you need to be logged in to see the image" >or the image is gone
So many fricking times
>Does anyone have a solution to this extremely specific problem that the person reading this is googling right now? >first reply is a facebook tier joke >exsqueeze me? >rest of the thread is people trying to 1-up the "joker"
it's not that forums were better it's just that people generally cared more about the shit they were posting back then. if there's one good thing to be said about SA it at least fostered creativity by having shit like photoshop phridays happen regularly
unfortunately the 10bux had the side effect of turning the whole site into a gas chamber
Forums were better because you had choice. If one forum is shit you can go to one of the other dozen forums. Now your options for discussion are reddit, Ganker, or discord. Don't like any of those? Too bad get fricked.
>reddit, Ganker, or discord
Ironically, both Reddit and Discord offer multiple places with the same discussion subject by design, with subs and servers that users can make themselves. Only Ganker confines you to boards that admins decided to make. Want to discuss single player games that aren't strategies or RPGs and came out after 2005? Get fricked, go compete with dozens of shitposters working at lighting speed to burrow everything else and watch your thread archive before 10 posts.
>"Stop making identical threads, use the search function and post in those threads" >"Stop necroing old threads!"
That's reddit, the entire function of Reddit is so fricked.
Like I play Dota and Reddit is like the only community that exist now since they deleted the playdota forums.
So if you make a post in the Dota reddit it won't be shown because you need higher "Karma" and you don't even know that your comment isn't shown to anyone else or how much Karma you need.
So to get more Karma everyone outright tells you to just post the most bot-like threads and comments possible on the big subreddits like /misc/ics/ which means posting "Republican's BAD!" or "Orange man BAD!" to get more Karma.
And after you've done all this bullshit and are finally allowed to participate in the Dota discussion by posting unrelated crap to Dota you have to post something that Reddit currently agrees on, if you happen to post some unconventional opinion you will be downvoted and now you are no longer allowed to post on the Dota subreddit again.
So ALL posts and comments are just people posting safe opinions and there's no discussions because people don't dare to voice their real options because of the karma system.
The entire site is so fricked.
Discord sucks because it makes it difficult to find useful information, long thought out posts are disincentivized by the chat room format and it has a dogshit UI. Not to mention most public discords are run by troons/furries.
The imageboard that allowed user creation was taken over by glows and run into the ground. Really, as along as ``anti-terror'' legislation is on the books, they'll continue to terrorize us, and snuff out any alternatives.
>unfortunately the 10bux had the side effect of turning the whole site into a gas chamber
The 10 bucks weren't the problem, as a matter of fact I believe it made the site better because it kept all the kids away, what killed it were the bets, back in the day people could say shit like "If I don't lose at least 30 pounds by the end of the month the mods can ban me!" and they would actually get permabanned if they didn't accomplished it, so guess what happened in 2008? a lot of republicans said "If Obama wins the elections the mods can ban me!" and they all got banned, so the only people left, or most of the people left there were from the left, now I'm not saying this was the sole reason the website went to shit, but it did contribute in Lowtax not liking his own website and refusing to do anything with it
I remember a forum mod publicly announcing in a thread that I was going to be banned for a week.
I actually agreed to the punishment because it was warranted.
The powertripping homosexual must have wanted me to beg because he started acting pissy and extended my ban to a month.
Ganker (image macro site) is the best format, hands down. All you homosexuals mean nothing to me, I'm not going to be bombarded all day by some homosexual I pissed off, I don't have to worry about having a stigma in a thread or anyone else.
Every thread, clean slate. Hell, I can make a post and then subsequently argue against myself. If everyone turns on me, I can just join the crowd in kicking me. It's fun, and it makes discussion easy to understand and follow, at least for me.
I've been on Ganker for like 15 years, something like that, and I love it. You guys have moronic takes, amazing taste in games while also having the worst taste since there's hundreds of you guys posting shit. It's great, video games
This. In one thread we might have a vicious disagreement where we're calling each other Black folk and homosexuals and all sorts of things you'd get banned for elsewhere, and then the next we might be calling each other based over our shared love of an obscure favorite.
/v/ermin never really got into forum culture and get prickly when they encounter gatekeeping. Forums are better for specialist discussion. Ganker is a cesspit but it's better for general discussion. When you find a good forum, where people hold some standards for posting and manners. It absolutely BTFO of Ganker discussion. About the only advantage here is you can be completely sociopathic and nobody will permaban your account.
I have to admit it's funny when you're elsewhere on the internet and you see some moron forget his powerlevel and act like he's on Ganker and just get utterly fricked for it. I still hate all the israelitery of things like karma and updoots but I can't deny how satisfying it is to see that lol
Forums are the only places for good specific discussion. anonymous threads like these can be momentary fun but then they're gone like a fart in the wind, discord fricking sucks unless it's a niche thing with like 10 people, reddit is fricking useless with how their comment system works
I still use one forum site because of its database, and the main mod is a powertripping homosexual who tries to unilaterally force changes that even the site owner and other mods don't agree with. at least Ganker jannies don't (usually) try to reverse decade-old rules
eh. forums have the same problems as reddit. i.e. dicksucker powerhungry mods who want to impose their expectations on discourse. sometimes they just frick with you because they don't even like you for whatever reason. frick 'em, and their little sycophants. frick that shit bro. it's gay. it's homo. it's homogay, if you will.
plus rules rules rules. I don't a huge list of rules to abide by. frick off with that shit. of course, with a more controlled environment, you can expect to have better discourse, but at the cost of the freedom to say Black person Black person Black person and other such things that they don't like. plus, if neogay is anything, it's an example of what happens when a hivemind prevents actual discourse, no matter how "toxic" or not.
Not that anon but from what I've seen of them, they're seriously deranged/unhinged people. It's basically cancel culture for incels if everyone was on the verge of becoming a mass shooter.
The site prohibits interacting with the people being talked of in real life and all of the things they get are from things that were posted by the person being talked about, they only archive information and talk about said information, the people who swat and send pizzas to the people's house are from other websites and discords, and lastly most of the people who have a thread in the forum have it for a reason and usually deserved to be mocked
But they are the ones who take that information and compile it in an easy to read format. Nobody else does that, and by israelitesh's own admission it's not a necessary part of the thread, they just do it because they can.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
That's because he doesn't want to police what people can and can't do unless it's illegal, compiling information isn't illegal
Dunno I've only lurked there a few times and the posters come off as irrationally angry and obsessed with people they're supposed to laughing at
That's one of it's issues, the moralgays
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I shouldn't have to tell you that something being legal doesn't make it okay.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Oh but that's subjective isn't it? what's good or bad, deserved or undeserved changes from place to place, from website to website, some people thinks is immoral to dox and other people think is ok to do so, you can have a problem with it, but nothing should happened to the website because it's not illegal
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
The hilarious expansion of what's considered "dox" is another good one. Glows are really obsessed with asymmetry
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Agreed, it's a good thing I never said it's an illegal website and should be shut down, I just said its userbase are piranha and look for the slightest sign of weakness or hint of someone's location for no other reason than because they can.
In short they're buttholes, and make a good chunk of Ganker look like soup kitchen workers by comparison.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Yeah and those people who think it's okay are subhumans, including you.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
It's pathetic at worst. They definitely don't need fed attention, but those homosexuals have needed enemies since islamists fell off the docket
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I only really know of them because of the homeless namegay Lambright who lives in a shed because they swatted him like 100 times or some shit. I think the guy ended up getting arrested for it too. That type of behavior seems like the furthest thing from being moral to me. It's seriously pretty deranged behavior at least IMO.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Well, he was apparently the kind of guy who says "the israelites did 9/11" attached to a post with his face and full name, he also tried running for president and shilled his website and streams on kiwifarms for some fricking reason, the swat wasn't directed by kiwifarms
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
So you're saying it's mossad?
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
The guy that did it was from kiwifarms though and was a high profile swatter. He was called torswats or some shit. There were news articles about it.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I dunno, they usually act more surprised when this sort of thing happens, also all news media blame kiwifarms for any swatting by default
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
And this Torsaw guy? he wasn't from the forum, he was doing his shit on telegram
>the people who swat and send pizzas to the people's house are from other websites and discords
It always works like this. One imageboard was shut down for some turrist posting on it, yet he had already posted the same thing on Facebook. I don't think anyone's shutting down Facebook, let alone the fact that anyone could have just reposted it.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
it's funny how facebook would be shutdown if it weren't for all the money it generates
homie, they are all weird teenagers who think internet is their lives. I can't imagine someone past 20 being so engaged in monitoring people on the web
i post here i get anons telling me to kill myself and someone calling me a troony because he forgot to take his antipsychotics that morning
i post there i have the eyes of not just insane trannies trying to ruin someone's day but the userbase of piranhas looking to tell the world i live in 12 Appletree Boulevard, Bismarck, ND as well as everything about me and my family including the birth mark my 6 year old niece has on her shoulder. >hurr the images you use can be searched by filename and hash
You mean the images on an imageboard? The ones that are saved and reposted constantly as part of the site's ethos?
Kiwifarms is fun to lurk, occasionally useful to post in, and nothing the frick else.
It's true anon, it's been proven time and time again that the only people that actively hate the kiwifarms are usually subhumans that have done something bad and posted it on the internet, it's like people who are against e-girlcon, they always end up being actual pedophiles
>You are delusional. Kiwifarms is a den of snakes primed to cannibalise each other
Ya that’s the one thing most people don’t realize about KF and Josh. If the site is going to fall it’s going to be due to some internal strife, not cause of keffals or some government telling them to shut it down. I’ve already seen the seeds of it being planted. Look at how Josh handled the DSP shit that happened a while back with him pissing off posters there just for telling them to ease it down a little. Hell I’ve seen and heard from the jannies first hand that they are either afraid of Josh or just downright resent him.
>kiwitards
They are some of the most derange gays to exist. They are worst than the autistic kid they make fun of, they probably do the same shit or worse but they don't film it innocently.
more like >join reddit >see factually wrong claim used for pushing some stupid agenda >try to comment on it >"your account must be 10y old and have at least 100k karma to post here" >get messaged by automoderator >"because you have been posting messages in /r/funny youve been automatically banned in the following 17 subreddits:..."
>make a proper comment not breaking any rules, is respectful and on-topic >"uhmm I looked at your history and you posted something positive about some right-wing issue 4 years ago!" >every reply and comment is about this instead of the topic now
Only place I check other than this cesspool is a boomer hobby forum where pretty much everyone is nice and stays off topic.
Smartphones killed internet discussions.
I miss those forums where they had some kind of imaginary economy that granted you weird shit or some sort of clan system where it worked like a lite browser game
It was crypto and metaverse before they were a thing...
I honestly don't remember anything of the sorts on the forums I frequented. I remember that having more posts gave you a cool emblem or avatar frame or a colourful nickname and that's all I needed to want to post more.
Yea I don't know where this shit is coming from. Like every forum I ever went to, I literally never had someone pull post counts or some other shit on me. I've had
>that user who does nothing but drop snide one-liners in every thread
and other dicks but there were easily some hobbyist forums on aviation and guns that I wish hadn't been killed by mega sites like Ganker or reddit- it was way more fun than dealing with ironylords or people farming karma.
homosexuals complaining about their threads dying, there's a way to format Ganker threads in a way that baits people, i'm not going to tell you my secret but i don't think i ever had a thread not going over 400 replies
forums were cancer >nvm I fixed it >PM'd you the fix 🙂 >USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION INSTEAD OF OPENING NEW THREADS. ALSO NO NECRO-BUMPING!!!!1! >search doesn't allow regexes >a gorillion quoted posts instead of a simple tree view >you can only display 10~20 posts per page >signature whoring
ironically enough, imageboards seem to work better, excepting the ephemerality.
Does anyone actually say that? Ganker was literally born due to people hating forum culture in the same way people nowadays hate Reddit and Twitter. Please don't tell me people think this site is as old as Reddit and Twitter.
Ganker desperately needs something similar.
Manually filter all of the AI-generated filth and literal children spamming clickbait garbage from their youtube feed.
You used to be able to do this yourself by spamming gore in threads posted by morons, but now there's a captcha.
I still don't understand why forum mods always got so ass hurt about necro posts. If the post is about the thing the thread is about why should it matter? I see this still on steam forums where someone has a problem with the game and posts in an old thread about it and the steam mod gets pissy and locks the thread without answering the question
People who become jannies do so because they have nothing better to do with their time. The vast majority of them are too worthless to get a job, ANY job. Their behavior makes sense as long as you remember this.
I dont know anyone who lived through the forums era ever thought it was superior to any of the options we have today because all the forums will be corrupted and taken by power hungry users sooner or later.
Forums were for circlejerking homosexuals who wanted "cleaner" discussion than unmoderated Usenet groups. And they only got worse as the years went on.
Are anonymous text/imageboards are the only places on the internet that allows for actual discussion?
This place isn't great but the alternatives are so much worse.
>some boards have overmoderation so bad that if you step out of line for a second the b& hammer comes down >the rest are so unmoderated that shitposting drowns out actual conversation
what is the final solution to the moderation problem?
>what is the final solution to the moderation problem?
Make ever single jannie/mod action public and make it so that the users of that board can take action if they feel a ruling was unfair.
it's a tradeoff
here you get 100% unfiltered opinion on a topic, but with that comes mass-reply homosexuals, disingenuous homosexuals, spam homosexuals, trolls and (you) farming contrarians.
in general a forum is a more "pleasant" to browse, but also runs the risk of stuff you want to see getting filtered, or worse and incentive system that makes people just regurgitate popular opinions (like upvotes)
I'm not sure Ganker or forums are better, I don't think either has solved the post quality equation.
And wasn't hamstrung by 5MB of externally hosted bloat.js libs. Even the Flash sites you had to wait to load worked perfectly once they did, and had artistic merit.
modern web dev: >we don't like how the DOM updates, so we're gonna build an entirely new DOM out of java-script so we can frick around with state in new and retarted ways. >btw you're gonna need to load all this boilerplate every website you visit.
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It's not that the forums are better than what we have now, it's that the internet community during the 90s and 00s were far better.
Today, thanks to social networks, smartphones and the corporatization of the internet, we have several times more people than before. And the vast majority are subhuman morons.
Surprised nobody mentioned Starmen, what a cancerous board filled with self absorbed autists. >Oh this thread/topic was already made by one guy 18 years ago and got 2 replies, it will never be discussed ever again, just go to one of the 2 active threads that are OC and /vg/ tier circlejerking inside-joke regurgitation
They were. I remember having long discussions with people over all types of games and learning something every time. At least on the forums I went on, people paid attention to what they were writing and tried to communicate. Meanwhile on Ganker I can post something innocuous, and then someone will go crazy and attack me based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the figure of speech I used or they misread a word. And I can't even tell if they just don't know english or they don't care.
More and more these past years I just write out a post, sighing, then cancelling the quick reply box. People here are like a level beyond stupid. You had morons on the internet before but they had logic to their madness. The thirdies here are typing whatever buzzword they think will make their post "cooler" or something.
Big downside to long-term posting on forums is, you know the users and everyone builds up a reputation. So you get the dynamic where you see some guy's name, and you already know what this post will contain, and then you just filter it out mentally. Then again, anon boards have that same issue. You see a trigger phrase and someone instantly becomes /misc/ or a troony or whatever, and you can instantly just ignore them. Not that you SHOULDN'T ignore trannies, of course.
yeah, its easier to ignore the morons on Ganker easier too. Gaming has become so stratified that you can tell a good thread on Ganker based on the game. Schizos and polgays wouldn't enter a klonoa thread, for example.
zoomers who weren't there and are desperate to put down anything they missed out on as a way to control their innate corpo-influenced FOMO and properly gatekept moron anons who were left out ITT trying to convince people forums were objectively shit across the board
forums, on average, were better; if you were there, it doesn't need explaining or rationalizing
>allowed domains
It's so fricking over. I've told myself I'd leave so many times but haven't. I suspect this is it. I'm going to try and make a change. Get a RPGcodex account and bail on this shit hole. I only wish there were equivalents to my other interests as readily apparent as Codex. Some content on other boards is super obscure and you don't really find it elsewhere.
I hate forums as much as Discord. I prefer anonymous imageboards. I hate having a post history tied to an account just so some moron homosexual can e-stalk me. It's not for me.
uh yeah, you made a good point but I see that 15 years, 26 days, 5 minutes and 36 seconds ago you said "that's gay" which outs you as a homophobe. BTW I also was able to get your work location from your post history and I've notified your company that you make homophobic and probably racist comments online so expect to see HR on monday :).
>I hate having a post history tied to an account just so some moron homosexual can e-stalk me.
I could only see that being a problem if you were a moron that gave out your email and personal information like most women online do, which had always been frowned upon back then so throw away accounts were always common. Not like now where you HAVE to give sites your phone number as well as your email.
Not to say I don't agree with you or anything. Anonymous imageboards were a god send.
On one hand, I do kinda wish I had gotten into forums much earlier so I could experience that "tight knit" community feeling and be able to find all sorts of niche things for specific topics but on the other I prefer having the freedom to post about whatever topic-related thing or shitpost I damn well please that Ganker offers, find drama and gossip distasteful and I'm too much of a socially awkward loser that the mere idea of someone recognizing me or looking into whatever I post makes me feel all itchy and uncomfortable.
You can, dumbass cat. Yeah the troony here and there might be annoying, but you have to deal with it and chill. You gotta remember those guys are just autistic geeks like the average Ganker poster.
If you're even slightly interested in making custom content for games, discussing the technical aspects of them, and just generally niche socially moronic topics, discord is the way to go. Ganker is fun, but too volatile and compromised.
>"tight knit" community feeling
that never existed. it was just a bunch of attention-whoring namegays. staff consisted of power-tripping losers who would ban you for stepping on the wrong person's toes.
the only good thing about forums was you could find useful info on certain topics (e.g. computer parts, game info, mods, etc.)
I loved trying to find a resolution to an issue and having to dig through 600 pages of "I have the same issue" and "works for me" only for the thread to be locked becasue the "solution was posted" even though it wasn't. Now I have a problem and I type "problem + reddit" and get an answer. You can leavbe off the reddit but then you get some article that despite being 20m paragraphs long says nothing at all or the support form where rajeet p[osts that he has 15 years of experience and gives the most basic troubleshooting and asks for a log even though the original post posted and log and says what they did.
leddit is absolute garbage. it was always bad as it was full of tech-illiterate morons, but it truly went to shit when they started purging stuff like gore, jailbait, wrongthink, etc.
the actual problem with the nu-internet is adsense farms and closed gardens like faceberg, which put up login walls. other than ~~*advertisers*~~, ~~*payment processors*~~ and ~~*banks*~~ censor everything with an iron fist. and then there are companies like cuckflare, which make self-hosting impossible.
if you get rid of the israeliness that pervades the internet, the tyrants' grip will weaken overnight and things will go back to the way they were in the late '80s/early '90s.
DDos'ing websites rarely happened, every anon could have their own website about anything without being 'shut down'
Then Cloudfare popped up and DDOS becomes a billion times more common. >Oy vey goyim, you DO want to pay your protection fees to us, right?
Do the maths.
Reddit is better than any social media platforms
There's more discussion on reddit then there is on other social media platforms. It's not the best but it's better than let's say Facebook where you have zero discussion and comments are basically impossible to find except the top ones.
>Raj posts the most basic troubleshooting steps >Two more pages that are just people b***hing about Microsoft >40 posts in, some dude named Mike posts some obscure solution that he found by just changing settings until something happened.
Every time.
>"tight knit" community
Unfortunately that didn't really exist. Imagine a less densely packed /vg/ and that's 95% of the traditional forum experience. Trust me, no one having any fricking idea who anyone else is makes for a better experience on the whole.
You people don't deserve anonymous imageboards. You were mindbroken by social media to the point you try to assign personalities to posts with similar opinions or repeated messages You don't understand the concept of anonymous image board at all
Maybe you should stop being so predictable. Maybe you should stop using the exact same md5 or even filenames for your images going back 4 years or more. Maybe you should stop changing a couple pixels on these images once enough anons point out how many times you've posted. Maybe you should stop making yourself so pathetically easy to recognize.
But you won't, because your entire identity is dependent on what an ocean of piss thinks about you.
The schizo hides behind the illusion of anonymity.
But the schizo cannot help but exhibit his abnormality, for all the world to see.
Hence the existence of KiwiFarms.
Its most likely just the Chinese that are buck broken by Xi's brainwashing culture of obeying the leaders and never having any "wrong" thought = things i don't like = wrong!! Media is entertainment and what is entertaining to you is not to someone else.
That's why I find it funny when they freak out about muh Eric-troony. Shit was hilarious.
>try to get help on discord >get a helpful reply however, the user keeps talking about off topic shit like what they are eating along with every post they make >"huh maybe its just this one autistic guy" >notice this same trends on multiple Discord channels and servers >visit other channels to talk about the subject >nothing but users talking about off topic random shit >try talking about something on topic >post gets ignored
Discord is literally /vg/ as a service. How did we evolve past something worst than forums?
this is why discords with "posting shit outside of its designated channel will be acted upon" rules are the best. keeps bullshit where it needs to be >but i wanna discuss the politics of this game in the vidya channel
/ban
>all those tourists criticizing discord groups and niche forums
glass houses morons
pathetic that you think this place is any different, where mods treat Ganker as their personal discord channel
This site, THIS fricking site right here. If you ever want to show someone how bad forums could get, show them Gamefaqs's message boards. My god I could write a novel at how shitty this site's message boards is. The fricking balls their jannies have puts Ganker's jannies on a power trip to shame. If a user gets banned, every single post they made on every board will be removed, even if they were the topic creator for a few. Their opening posts will be gone but the topic will still stay up and all deleted post are of course hidden.
So say someone made a helpful guide on a certain message board and that same person got banned on another off topic section of the site. That helpful guide is now gone. Imagine entering a tread to a solution to a problem and the post was deleted because the user was banned elsewhere. Every time you try to look up information that's not in the text guides, the posts are deleted. This site's jannies have no shame at being buttholes.
Forums WERE better because they forced you to learn how to write, how to interact with others, and how to argue. Things that are sorely lacking from social media. And thus that has leaked into Ganker. Used to be that the people who came to Ganker were forum refugees, now they're social media refugees, and the quality of posts has plunged as a result.
Forum is an ancient greek tradition where philosophers/religious people/politicians/scientists and whatever would debate in the public, anything from ancient greek that was good is being eroded from society, lmao.
Do you guys think half of today's problems when it comes to Ganker/forums etc or any social platform are a part of the overall change in internet culture?
The root cause is a change in who is actually online, including the change in internet culture. Smart phones mean that the majority of online content is no longer being generated by the sort of person who cares to sit at a desktop computer, which is bad enough - but as the third world comes online the entire internet begins to brown. One of the worst consequences of this is that everyone is ESL, and even those who think they're fluent can't understand basic words and phrases, and so every conversation here becomes an English language lesson. You can't discuss ideas online anymore, because you have to spend all your time just trying to explain the method by which ideas are conveyed. The entire internet has become a conversation with a heavily accented call center Indian. Pay attention to the arguments you see here, and how many of them are rooted in one anon misusing or misunderstanding words. It's every thread on every board.
Yeah for sure. I disagree with the phoneposter/ESL bogeyman (though they absolutely exist). It's underaged kids. They are literally everywhere now and they are literate and able to use the internet at younger ages than ever. I'm not saying there should be mandatory ID's but parents REALLY need to get better with this shit. I was on /d/ at 11.Imagine if some fricking kid found out about sturdy or /pag/.
a site wide email auth would probably kill the site. so if that's the intent, it'd probably to kill the site in advance of november, and then hiro will "desperately" remove it afterward because it's still more useful alive. i'm sure feds will study analytics to see where everyone disperses to
i have the same problem as the original poster did. could you, or anyone else, explain how to fix this problem?
DO NOT NECRO THREADS!!!
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Forums were better.
They 100% are
Forums do this to weed out bots and trolls
Quite literally all of these problems exist with discord.
In fact, it's even worse with discord, especially the epeen ranks and drama
You simply cannot escape this shit without going nearly full anonymous and even then it doesn't help completely.
If you want a chatroom, use a chatroom. Forums are not chatrooms.
You're 100% full of shit and have never used a forum before. That shit never fricking happens. Meanwhile you ask a question in discord and 2 seconds later it's forgotten about because the egirl troony wants to know how cute his cat looks just after you asked, and didn't use the right channel for it but it doesn't matter because simps and troony enablers give them a pass on everything. You start a thread on a forum and even if the first post is the egirl posting her cat someone is gonna answer your question anyway.
some of you posting shit about forums have so obviously barely even fricking used them
Discord is good for your close friends and small group discussions, it's fricking awful for larger groups and communities - that's when forums start being great. They're basically inverse to each other. You get far worse abuses and behaviour from large discord groups than you'll EVER see on a forum. There is just something inherent to discord that makes larger communities absolute trashheaps
>That shit never fricking happens
Except it did, you fricking moron.
If you never saw it, chances are you were the obnoxious mongrel derailing conversations.
I remember seeing countless threads where someone would ask a question in the hopes of getting their problem fixed and some 50k post karma homosexual would make an inside joke and everyone would join in. Nobody ever answered the fricking question.
Most of the time they were buddies with the mods so if you ever dared to call them out on their stupid behavior, you would be the one getting bonked.
>Meanwhile you ask a question in discord and 2 seconds later it's forgotten about because the egirl troony wants to know how cute his cat looks just after you asked, and didn't use the right channel for it but it doesn't matter because simps and troony enablers give them a pass on everything.
I could tell you it doesn't happen either, because I don't go to servers with homosexual trannies. Meanwhile, on forums you would regularly get shit-eater vets repeating the same replies redirecting users to FAQ without even reading the OP and moderators closing threads immediately after, with everyone trying to ask about the same thing getting whopped for not using the search bar. Because that's what happened.
>Quite literally all of these problems exist with discord.
>In fact, it's even worse with discord, especially the epeen ranks and drama
Find a better Discord? Make one for you and your friends?
If someone sane were to do that, they wouldn't use Discord in the first place.
I don't think you're using Discord right, man. Do you just go to the massive, 50k+ servers, or some shit?
>reddit spacing, mass replying essayist prefers forums
pottery.
>You simply cannot escape this shit without going nearly full anonymous and even then it doesn't help completely.
The solution is forced anonymity plus a token yearly subscription. If Ganker cost $10 a year for everyone it would be the best board in the universe.
The payment information would be leaked immediately.
He’s a fed, don’t worry guys you don’t have to take him seriously.
SA is proof against this.
Whether they have usernames or are anonymous, any sort of monetary barrier for entry deters mostly mild-mannered and sincere people (along with a lot of kids and some gays), and instead invites megagays who will quickly shape that insular community into an elitist shithole with terrible opinions and thin skin, constantly beset by the best trolls who are willing to pay a nominal fee so they can frick with the forum for a year's worth of entertainment.
>PM'd you the fix
>You must be registered to view this link
>You must be approved by moderation to view this link
>You must have over 10 posts to view this link
>Broken links
>Necro
no
Just so you know, at least 20% of that on the internet is me unironically. i would lookup obscure problems on tech forums for fun, "PM'd you the fix" or post a dead rapidshare link knowing it'd make homosexuals like you seethe decades into the future.
compared to today
>no results from web search
>answer is in some discord server you don't even know about hidden within a random post from 2 and a half years ago in general discussion
That's why I'll take the last decade approach of Imageboard with archive. The system was perfect.
I miss dedicated forums.
>morons
Based. Modern site owners are too cucked to use language like this.
Are you saying that being able to insult people unrestrained is something we need to cherish and uphold?
nta but yeah that is an absolute requirement for a free society
>were
forums still exist tho? this thread is on a forum
>being able to insult people unrestrained (...) that is an absolute requirement for a free society
What a moronic statement. All the fake niceness that your autistic brain is too impaired to comprehend is a part of the greater teamwork that propels humanity to progress. The societal decay since 20th century is a direct consequence of people defying norms worked out through centuries.
>teamwork that propels humanity to progress
a fake niceness facade is not teamwork. it's just a self-preservation tactic in this clown world we live in
Passive aggression is far more deleterious than flippant "toxicity"
we were talking about teamwork, or rather, the lack of it. your post is irrelevant.
t. has never been on a team
walking on eggshells because everyone gets pissy if you don't use their made up pronouns is the opposite of teamwork
you are autistic
A free society allows one to call one-another morons freely, because there are contextual differences in its use. Ones too complicated for the likes of you to understand, because you are only capable of black and white tunnelvision, but which better adjusted people can pick up on easily when seen/used.
Yes.
Yes you homosexual. My speech is terrible in reality. Why would I type eloquently for your gay ass?
>hands smeared with shit typed this post
SIRS YOU BLOODY BASTARDS I MUST SWEAR
The "you're brown" retort is some weird astroturfing ngl
its not when you hear that the metrics of Ganker include an insane amount of indians in the last few years and that the large majority of india has aparantly already been banned on Ganker for spamming and scamming, hence the new rule for email verification.
This entire website has been flooded by poojeets.
Unironically yes you fricken low IQ genetic trash moron. have a nice day
Yes, you fricking moron.
gayot moron
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from all consequences
Yes. Even if you don't participate, I think its important for people to be allowed to call me whatever they want to without fear of being punished for it.
This is perfect. No adds, no sidebars for other wikis, no shitty pop-ups of their own playthrough fighting the monsters, Easily readable text and font, good layout, quick links at the top so you don't have to search for what you want, etc.
kek
1st Amendment b***h
Yes
yes you dumb fricking moron, have a nice day
>use the search theres already a thread
>wtf why are you necroposting? banned
>low post count=opinion discarded
>user ranks
>forum cliques and "families"
>epeen mods
>forum drama
>necroing obsession
I'm good
Don't forget join dates.
>he didnt wet the towel
This. Although smaller sized forums are usually a bit better, they still suffer from the same issues at a small scale.
2chan/Ganker/etc. has the format mostly ideal. I think we should have thread IDs for each thread, especially now that the IP count is gone. I would also love to get rid of bots, but sadly that is impossible.
Reddit has it set-up so bad, even down to the terrible UI and nearly worthless search function. Sadly its active user base means you can get an answer usually within a week versus hoping someone sees and answers your post in a dead forum. The smaller sized subreddits are usually better because they are slower and the few posts made are genuine/helpful.
>inb4 go back
I wouldn't have to even go there if people here would be helpful instead of responding to troll and inflammatory posts all the time. If you want an answer here you usually have to post the wrong answer and hope someone corrects you.
The absolute worst are those insufferable "forum personalities" that expect everyone to suck their wieners. God I'm glad Facepunch is dead.
They're called avatargays
c-cute futaba
Futaba is always cute
If only knockout was dead too
albinoblacksheep forums had all of this and it was awful, i think i remember one of the admins was a hambeast with an attitude problem.
Tene was a c**t. Any fun thread and she'd shit on it. The mods ab brought on after the forums came back and lost 90% of its user base were somehow even worse.
Yeah, I'm glad reddit killed forums. I've been an active member of over a dozen forums and every single one of them was run by power tripping butthole mods. Coming to Ganker from forums was incredibly liberating, and I never looked back.
reddit didn't kill forums
Ganker killed forums
reddit is the intelligence community's attempt to control online discussion through the worst possible format they could think of, where everything is predicated on thought and speech control and aligning public sentiments with authority. Reddit is the forum as a concept with all the good parts sifted out. It is distilled garbage. People didn't abandon forums because of reddit, they did so because Ganker offered all the same discussions as forums with much less mod homosexualry and more freedom.
Everyone with a brain either uses Ganker or discord, nobody but dumbfricks uses reddit for anything but a search term appendage
If forum people switched to Ganker why is the average post quality here infinitely worse compared to forums
define "worse"
and anyway it's because of all the special interests that astroturf here. however at least here you can tell them to their faces to frick off with impunity (more or less). shills on reddit? they get super special protection from moderators, content policy, TOS, etc. not only that, the userbase are open maw drooling moronic to the point that they couldn't even conceive of the notion that they're being monitored by said special interests. there's a reason reddit is a circlejerk - it's engineered to be that way. more or less, forums are the exact same thing, they're effectively subreddits in all but appearance.
RPGCodex here, I don't notice that much difference. A lot of the Codex holds back because they're insecure about how they might be perceived. Cleve's the only one who goes full out without regard for consequence. And even Cleve has been more restrained recently. He isn't the shitposting genius he was back in the early '10s. He's more like your average boomer guy nowadays.
This, I left forums for Ganker 15 years ago and never looked back.
Necroing in general pisses me off. So you want people to keep making new topics rather than continuing one long topic? This isn't an imageboard, the topic doesn't just disappear into the ether, it's there permanently.
asking a question about a topic thats been asked several times before and then getting warned about asking that question it vs necroing an old topic is the absolute worst
Also
>accusing accounts you don't like of being a sockpuppet account of your arch enemy
kek this, I have been accused of being part of another rival forum and fake for 5 years. Then the forum in question closed lulz
people do that here all the time, especially on /vg/
and you need craft beautiful, long replies, or your useful posts are ignored by OP or other users, most forums put huge, empty space between posts and users expect long replies for fill the gap
What's funny is a lot of those things are still relevant today but a certain generation of people choose not to believe it.
cliques and "families"
Discord and Discord raids. Also no female goes without orbiters so basically every site since the 90's
mods
Literally fricking everywhere, Ganker, reddit, facebook, twitter, and last but not least Discord
drama
Turned into politics and culture war drama
Yeah the jannies here are really selective and a lot of the time the resident schizos of any given board are friends with one or a janny themselves. Had an experience with that the other day. I kind of like the forum format better tbh it's just that there aren't really many left and the ones that do remain have a median age of 50, are overmoderated to the point where you might as well just post on Reddit instead, or in fringe cases are filled with the worst kinds of people (kiwiBlack folk, shartytroons)
only good thing about a forum is that mods can't hide their affiliations with the local moron/troony
>kiwiBlack folk
Seething
I'd much prefer hanging around boomers than terminally online wannabe oldgays who will dig up every shred of your personal information if you so much as do the online equivalent of showing ankle and/or step out of line from the hivemind circlejerk. You will never be an oldgay and you are far more psychotic than the people you stalk.
stop sharing your actual name online and it will stop happening you massive homosexual. If you want to become an eceleb, you deserve everything coming to you.
You're absolutely correct.
It's like we're already posting on one right now
This pretty much. Most forums were fine if you were a nameless observer or a member that got along with the community but all too often things fell to shit over petty drama and power tripping mods. These exact same things still happen with discords but at least with forums you might stumble across useful on long dead forums info thanks to google, before SEO bullshit ruined everything that is.
That's fair, but the Black folk over on the Codex know their RPGs....
Okay, let me rephrase, certain posters on there know RPGs and honestly it's worth joining just to get their takes.
>low post count=opinion discarded
Yes, correct.
>user ranks
I guess we have pass users here.
>forum cliques and "families"
We have avatargays, tripgays, namegays and entire mentally ill schizos that are well known in some generals on /vg/ and Ganker.
>epeen mods
100% applies to here, especially the troony jannies that spend all day ERP in IRC
>forum drama
This happens x10 here, especially with twitter screenshot threads
>necroing obsession
"Bump"
"Bump"
"Bump"
A lot of things you complain about forums are worse on Ganker.
Thanks for saving me the effort. Surely others must have recognised we have the exact same shit here.
> We have avatargays, tripgays, namegays and entire mentally ill schizos that are well known in some generals on /vg/ and Ganker.
Ya but aren’t most of them not taken seriously anyway? It’s not like anyone is dying to hear what Manlettears or what Boco has to say.
cliques and "families"
the worst is when they'd all gang tackle anyone who went against the consensus on any topic with the usual "i can't even..." "seriously? lol" shit
Holy shit this one is especially terrible. I’ve seen first hand a bunch of morons on a coming together and forming some dumb “council” like as if they’re Roman’s or some shit when I was 12. Most of these dudes were grown ass men doing this shit on a forum about video games for a kids game. They were literally gatekeeping being called a [forum name]er if you didn’t suck up to whoever belonged in their gay little clique. God forbid you have an opinion that their gay “council” doesn’t agree with, now you’re SOL.
Did they at least have any actual power?
Frick no. They weren’t even actual jannies. Not to say the actual jannies were much better. They were more hands off than anything and even when they did show up they’d get butthurt real easily. But at least those jannies got paid and had “power.” The “council” just did this shit for free.
>They were literally gatekeeping being called a [forum name]er if you didn’t suck up to whoever belonged in their gay little clique
Based, the complete of opposite of Ganker nowadays. This place has been raided by twittergays and discordgays and now it's a shell of it's former self.
>sucking up to attention prostitutes is good actually
kys moron
Go back to twitter or discord, troony.
He was probably an attention prostitute himself and that’s why he’s upset “Ganker is a former shell of itself.” Like as if you need some gay little clique to fight off against shitter and diddlecord raiders. He doesn’t have that forum status anymore and resents losing the one thing that gave him the closest thing to respect.
>God forbid you have an opinion that their gay “council” doesn’t agree with, now you’re SOL.
So the same in every fricking place, then? If you don't agree that a game like The Last of Us 2 is woke garbage, then you're immediately ostracized here. Seriously, what's the difference?
> Seriously, what's the difference?
/v/‘s opinions aren’t determined by a small group of morons LARPing as a triumvirate.
Yeah, instead it's large groups of morons LARPing as nazis or trannies and are dedicated to get a reaction out of you. Big improvement, amirite?
> Yeah, instead it's large groups of morons LARPing as nazis or trannies and are dedicated to get a reaction out of you.
Not my fault they succeed at pissing you off. I’m not a fan of either group, but I’d rather them than having game discussions and attempts at having fun be derailed by suckups trying to get in the good graces of attention prostitutes.
>Big improvement, amirite
Considering how most discussion is actually about video games and not forum politics and which attention prostitutes to suck up to, yeah. I’d hate to live in a world where tripgays are worshipped and have their own council that decides what Ganker talks about.
They are instead determined by discord trannies that are censoring anything that goes against their cult ideology and CCP.
If you post the statistics how likely it is for PS5 /r/ users/owners to be also in blacked reddit and cuckold reddit, its going to break the build for BBC janitor's mind.
you can say the gameplay is good but the story is bad
Not really. You will get replies saying the gameplay is generic 3rd person and isn't that important. Ganker has too many users dedicated for shitposting or concern trolling.
>necroing obsession
Definitely the worst thing about those sites
These are just shit tests for your opponent. If he's gay enough to care about any of this and not about your argument - he is transgender and dark skinned and his shitty opinions can be safely disregarded. The forum is doing you a favor by filtering gays.
And then you can blacklist them to never have to see their homosexualry again, unlike this shithole where some homosexual can suck a troony janny's dick and be allowed to samegay as 3 people talking to himself about how awesome and talented and based of a pedophile he is for a third of the fricking thread and you just have to pretend he isn't there, lest you trigger the sperg and he will shitpost unchallenged for three quarters of the thread.
Nobody ever said forums were better. They all degenerate into circlejerking and moronic moderation, so basically the same as Discord but slower
>Nobody ever said forums were better.
Ganker says that every other day. Other than that, you're right. Forums had identical social dynamics to what Discord has today, the only way they were objectively better in is search engine indexability.
Also the slowness of posting.
>Forums had identical social dynamics to what Discord has today,
on a forum you could keep a decent conversation going for days
on discord someone will come in "UGH I'M FEELING SO DYSPHORIC TODAY" and kill the convo instantly
On a forum, you could have a 10k+ posts homie waltz into your thread with an off-hand joke and derail it completely to everyone's applause. Same shit, different flavor.
just relax jamal, get back to work outside
I can tell you came from facpunch
that was always a shit ass forum but I get what you're saying
No one says this. Forums always devolve into circlejerks around older users. This site is where you get away from that shit.
>This site is where you get away from that shit.
Yes where instead we have circlejerks where one unhinged schizo neet replies to himself 50 times and blatant astroturfing.
Yeah this is worse
Would limiting the number of posts to a thread fix this problem? For example, only can post 3 times in a thread per IP count? I'm guessing they would just get around this using a VPN, so maybe such a rule would only punish the do-gooders?
That would destroy the only conversations happening in a thread
Unique thread IDs and flags would help
>inb4 butthurt BRICS subhumans
People would just reset their router
>Replying to me with this low postcount and a newer join date
Banned.
>Bumping a thread that's old.
Stop necroing. Your ban has been lengthened.
Also, this thread is very similar to another one from ten years ago.... Locked.
That would be fricking moronic, you couldn't have conversations.
>some forums are gay therefore all forums bad
have a nice day
Kinda in line with search engine indexability, one thing that bothers the shit out of me with Discord is the fact that when you come back to a channel where a conversation has moved on (or even if you've been pinged), it doesn't actually load where you left of or where you were pinged, resulting in you sometimes having to scroll through a fricking ton of inane conversation just to find the useful shit you were reading through earlier again.
On a forum or imageboard I can just bookmark a link to a thread or post, or just keep a tab open. I can't stand trying to find information about games etc on Discord servers because of shit like this, and it seems like anymore the majority of games' community resources are all kept on Discord these days. Discord or reddit or shitty youtube videos in either annoying eceleb or pajeet powerpoint presentation flavors.
the search options in a discord is fine. Do people just not know how to use it? you can combine any of these things together in a search. the only possible hindrance is the user not having access to certain channels but thats no different than a forum.
Are you seriously shilling Discord
no, i dont care if people use it, im just explaining that the search function is fine. its literally 1000x easier to find something than say, Ganker, twitter, resetera, tumblr, rpgcodex, f95zone, etc etc.
I would say that the search function in discord is exactly how it should be for other platforms.
Yes. Go make some friends you can actually talk with, instead of randos on Ganker.
Discord isn't RL, glaucon
I have literally met people in real life through Discord, and they've become genuine friends.
Yeah, same with ICQ. Still isn't
i actually met my gf like this. i think the people who have a hateboner for discord are most likely socially inept and dont know how to make friends or understand how discord even works. no one is forcing them to join the servers with shitty sjw moderation but thats what they focus on.
>still evading criticisms with personal attacks
WONT GET FOOLED AGAIN
NO-NO!
anon i already that literally 0 people care if you use discord. the only one missing out potentially is you.
already said*
Thank you for your concern, but I have Jesus
>he worships a dead israelite who was raised by a his cuckold stepfather
do this but also add anons from Ganker, they're pretty cool half the time
The key part there is "in discord". You can't get to any of that content by searching Google or navigating the site with a web browser, you're forced to sign up for some homosexual third-party chat program and join that specific server before you can even attempt to find anything. And if Discord ever goes out of business or some moron has a meltdown and deletes a bunch of shit, then whatever you were looking for is destroyed forever because it's impossible for third-party archive sites to access any of it.
I mean, thats kind of based though. That your words and ideas cant just be stolen and used by outsiders who you never interact with.
This mememe frick everyone shit is poison
>no goy listen you NEED to let big corporations and websites sell your data so that you can be spied on and better advertise to
There is literally 0 downside to privacy. Frick off shill.
>privacy
>discord
I see the consensus cracka-ass crackas have arrived
i would love to see any evidence of the contray. PSN has been hacked like 4x now so everyone who uses it had all of their info stolen. But discord? what evidence is there at all that peoples data is not secure. Remember the only reason that Nintendo was able to catch yuzu was because they literally had a guy join the server and record things. If there was some kind of privacy exploit or leak they would not have had to do that. Nintendo is insanely rich.
I am not shilling discord, I am merely asking for evidence for the claims that discord is either selling peoples data or letting other companies have access to it.
If you're wanting Assange leaks you'll be waiting, but check out the founder's history.
>I am not shilling discord
you literally plugged the paid service of discord
>you literally plugged the paid service of discord
are you fricking moronic? someone asked me how discord is monetized, i replied with the means by which discord is monetized. Learn to fricking read a discussion you moronic newbie.
>talk about something in discord with somone
>30 seconds later it's recommended to you on youtube
look I'm not a schizo but this has happened far too many times for me to think its a coincidence anymore.
the app itself records a ton of data too
do we have any evidence that disord is selling peoples data though?
How is it monetized
discord nitro
lol. lmao, even
this shit is embarrassing
>the search options in a discord is fine
lol, no
>want to search for "colorful"
>get every fricking permutation of the word "color"
>They all degenerate into circlejerking and moronic moderation
Accurate.
No good online community stays good for long.
Powertripgays and alwaysonlines will stick around until all the normies have been driven out of town.
At this point if the forum is totally dead these shitters will find another community to ruin BUT SOMETIMES they hit critical mass as a group and troon out together.
>They all degenerate into circlejerking and moronic moderation
A small forum that doesn't have a lot of new users doesn't need moderation.
Forums ARE STILL better
Someone asked a mildly similar question in a thread 13 years ago and never gotnan answer. Thread locked.
>EVERYBODY I DISAGREE WITH IS A homosexual
>date 2002
Same but 2024.
That's because trannies and leftists constantly try to get in the rpgcodex because it's filled with duuuh chudz
My home
RPG Codex
Forums still exist.
I still prefer Ganker, warts and all.
extremely specific discord servers are still my bread and butter, though, no hard feelings
>NOOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CANT SHITPOST, SAMEgay, AND BAN EVADE WITH NO REPERCUSSIONS???
>JANNNNYYYY DO YOUR WORK!!!
>HOW DARE YOU JANNY! MY FREE SPEECH!!!!! SHITPOSTING IS FREE SPEECHHH!
Schrodinger Ganker
We should double janny's salary so he works harder
>you must make X posts before being able to make a thread
>you must give "thanks" X times before being able to post
>you must send the moderator pictures of yourself dressed up as a femboy with a sign saying "daddy admin pls let me post"
>"Stop making identical threads, use the search function and post in those threads"
>"Stop necroing old threads!"
That's reddit, the entire function of Reddit is so fricked.
Like I play Dota and Reddit is like the only community that exist now since they deleted the playdota forums.
So if you make a post in the Dota reddit it won't be shown because you need higher "Karma" and you don't even know that your comment isn't shown to anyone else or how much Karma you need.
So to get more Karma everyone outright tells you to just post the most bot-like threads and comments possible on the big subreddits like /misc/ics/ which means posting "Republican's BAD!" or "Orange man BAD!" to get more Karma.
And after you've done all this bullshit and are finally allowed to participate in the Dota discussion by posting unrelated crap to Dota you have to post something that Reddit currently agrees on, if you happen to post some unconventional opinion you will be downvoted and now you are no longer allowed to post on the Dota subreddit again.
So ALL posts and comments are just people posting safe opinions and there's no discussions because people don't dare to voice their real options because of the karma system.
The entire site is so fricked.
>Dotard is a Trumptard
Of course
Stop creating burner and Throwaway accounts, homosexual!
>if you happen to post some unconventional opinion you will be downvoted and now you are no longer allowed to post on the Dota subreddit again.
I'm perfectly fine giving my opinion without having to use words. Not everything needs to be a discussion.
This is the only social networking site I have ever used with downvotes. Are they misused sometimes? Yes. But overall it a person constantly gets downvoted there is a reason, and as a user I appreciate the feedback.
Again, not everything has to be a discussion
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
lol, lmao even, I'm not even going to bother giving you a (You)
There is not a single good reason to dislike that site that won't out you as a post-2012 newbie
>cuckold board
>asiaticshit board
>capeshit board
>eceleb board
>tiktok board
>no japanese hobby boards
yep us oldgays amirite?
>gatekeeping is LE BAD
rpg codex is better than Ganker
It is and that's because they gatekept their community and kept their toxic atmosphere and drove away snowflake troony morons who can't handle being called out rather than embracing notoriety and growing their userbase
Oh irony, how i love thee
>rpg codex
rpg gays have always been insufferable dickwads who wanked off shit games because of muh writing. the only people who like them are slavs and trannies.
>verification not required
meanwhile on Ganker
>intense paranoia complex regarding "shilling" whenever a single indie game is posted (meanwhile there's always 20 threads up about the AAA fotm)
>never knowing when an entire thread is one guy samegayging
>no incentive to write long effortful posts because threads die after 25 minutes with no bumps
>absolutely no way to vet someone's opinions or claim to knowledge by checking their post history; there are no proven 'authorities' on subjects such as a poster who always accepts and wins Fightcade challenges so you know he's not a poseur, or a poster who often posts fanart so you know his opinions on graphics can be backed up
>Out of fricking nowhere, Kokichi Ouma
Terrible thread salvaged
>no incentive to write long effortful posts
If I'm not shitposting, I get no (you)s. If I put any effort into a post, or try to have a conversation, ignored. Its been like this for the past decade. But I'm too socially crippled to use other platforms.
Yet here you are
>meanwhile there's always 20 threads up about the AAA fotm
The shilling is annoying, the most recent example being the Tomb Raider remaster spam, but I don't know what the answer is. This place still provides a different, free format than anything else on the internet, they're complementary.
>meanwhile there's always 20 threads up about the AAA fotm
No way, people are talking and discussing about the latest big releases? Stop the presses!
only a fifth of those threads are actual discussions, the rest are worthless slide threads with an OP basically asking a question or saying X facet of the game is gay; essentially shitposters who are making a pointless thread rather than posting in the main thread just to get attention
There is no such thing as a "main" thread
Ganker is about posting whatever the frick you want, when you want to. If your thread sucks it dies.
Generals are unironically one of the biggest cancers killing this place. Ever since they started ~2010 original content production dropped off a fricking cliff. Morons like you just want your repetitive slop content, searching out your favourite general where no actual discussion is taking place because everything's been talked to death 2000 threads ago and it's all just drama filled garbage.
Back when we didn't have generals threads, if you wanted to talk about something you just fricking started a thread asking the questions or posting what you wanted. You didn't look for the fricking general like some effeminate cuck to "post properly".
99% of the generals are even worse than just slop content for morons incapable of holding a conversation. They're full on shill brigade product advertisements literally run by marketing agencies who hire people to post them here like they would on reddit and facebook.
If you actually LIKE generals threads you are part of the cancer that is killing Ganker
I completely and 100% agree. I remember /tg/ when it wasn't drowned in generals, every thread an interesting topic; now it's just the same boring shit.
Stop beating your Enter key like it's your microdick.
Not him but large amounts of text makes it a lot easier to read on pc
Virtue signalling moron
Generals CAN be good ok? I haven't gone to /ic/ in a while but for boards like that generals are kinda necessary to have easy access to reference images and shit, but yeah /vg/ sucks so fricking much is not even funny, I swear the only good thing that has come out of it is the football matches
>is the football matches
That's the worst fricking thing from /vg/
They're fun
>checking their post history
Black person. Judge someone based on the content of a conversation, not whatever past bullshit you can dig up.
I am not wasting time arguing with a schizo.
>everyone who disagrees with me is ``schizo''
>t. schizo
dont you have a thread to samegay?
Suck my wiener. dude.
they are extremely easy to weed out with one or two posts
a general rule should be to not take anyone at face value if they're not elaborating on an opinion
even "trusted" people can be fallible
Except most posts on Ganker are shallow half-baked proclamations of feelings rather than what you could call "content", and most of the time any attempt to draw out something more substantial results in tantrums, name-calling, and dismissive 'zingers' meant to posture as tough.
Most posts on Ganker are just very hivemind to me. b***hing about trannies, talking about game censorship (it's always about an edgy joke or loose outfit), or being adamant that the main cause for poor game quality is the number of Black folk at the studio.
It's like reddit without karma sometimes where people just post an opinion that plays well to the hivemind.
>comparing Reddit to Ganker
see
Okay? Shit's still groundhog day here with or without the karma. Post quality still sucks and some of you Black folk talk like fricking bots sometimes
It's a form of virtue signalling.
>stop talking about censorship don't you know that you care about the wrong things
Thanks for the input frickwit.
>thanks for the input frickwit
I called you a bot, because you people act like bots sometimes Black person. Get some thicker skin, I think it's fricking gay they censor breasts too.
Consistent concern about an issue isn't bot behaviour. You have no strong convictions about anything, so you are confused and lash out at your superiors when you see them care about an issue for longer than a week.
>Don't hold me accountable for my actions!
>Right now is all that matters!
>Unless I disagree with you... then every bad thing you've ever sa-I'M NOT A HYPOCRITE!!!
Black person
Nigher
It says a lot that, despite everything you posted being true, Ganker is still the best place on the internet for discussion. It makes me scared that AI is going to be the final nail of online discussion. After all, it don't gotta be good, it's just gotta be better than all the shitholes on the internet to win.
take solace in the fact that for now at least, they're easy to spot
Best place? This is just a circlejerk where you can yell slurs
no way to vet someone's opinions or claim to knowledge by checking their post history; there are no proven 'authorities' on subjects such as a poster who always accepts and wins Fightcade challenges so you know he's not a poseur, or a poster who often posts fanart so you know his opinions on graphics can be backed up
Thats a good thing go back puk3
Wish janny ban all twitter threads
Aww, poor widdle baby.
Kys troon.
no way to vet someone's opinions or claim to knowledge by checking their post history;
This is the number 1 thing ruining forums, Reddit, discord etc. homosexuals like you who NEVER engage with what someone has written.
Instead you open their profile and immediately look for some incriminating shit so you can score points. have a nice day
You were doing well until that last point. What you get with that is popularity contests where those "authorities" of yours can shut down discussion even when they're the one that's wrong. And a culture of self censorship and echo chamber creation where people are afraid to say anything that goes against the grain because gays will try to win arguments not by actually engaging with them but by digging through the other person's posts to find something to discredit them. People who are actually important and whose importance is relevant to the topic at hand can prove it on a thread by thread basis, like an artist posting a work in progress.
The incentive to write long effortful posts happens out of ANGER homosexual. I've seen plenty of people make fricking essays about Armored Core or something to respond to bait
Just a quick look at sturdy's /d/ is enough justification for anyone with a sound mind to not go in there
Being a slave to fat, self-important mods still exists, anon
Forums were better
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Ganker could never
The answer is to simply increase the number of thread slots so that threads with three replies don't push out good threads that happen to be slow. If Ganker has 10x the number of threads post quality would shoot up dramatically, or at least quality threads would last longer and be more fruitful.
>pic related
I remember following the exact tutorials those were made for or from.
I remember how cool guys looked to me if they had dope banners. Made me respect them more eventhough i didn't know them any better throught the banner.
Giving everyone a forum signature would be fun for April Fool's
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>NO ENGINE, NO TRANS,
The funny part, is they called them trannies
soul
>when they post several times in a row so the thread page with 6 comments is longer than a wikipedia article
Still better than Discord.
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frick that takes me back
S O V L
zoomers don't know that it do be this way but it do.
>mfw the old forums are still up from 20 years ago with the same shitty header
Not all of it, but some of it. Bravenet must just be letting most everything ride.
Where the frick are you supposed to go other than here? altchans all fricking suck nowadays and are also almost completely dead, reddit's entire system completely kills any possibility for discussion, most forums are infested with power hungry mods, twitter/ tumblr is filled with californians and Discord is a fricking honeypot for pedos, this place isn't the best, it's filled with schizos and teenagers, but sometimes I enter a good thread and have fun in it, unlike the other sites that make me want to pull out my eye sockets every waking moment I'm in them
>this place isn't the best, it's filled with schizos and teenagers, but sometimes I enter a good thread and have fun in it, unlike the other sites that make me want to pull out my eye sockets every waking moment I'm in them
Pretty much sums it up. The internet as we knew it is dying, just enjoy what little bits you can before it's gone for good.
Alts have always been the best alternative, but yes they're slow. Terraforming retro protocols always ends with duvetgays
>duvet
Isn't that the Lain song? why are there suddenly "duvetgays" in the wild? what did they do?
Kiwifarms. Yes they have a vidya board and let you say slurs.
Have glows designated it a terrorist forum yet, so they can send its users to Guantanamo?
They want to, after what happened with the girl with glasses they really REALLY want to It's so bad you can't even post her name here or else you get insta permabanned
Wrong, EDF6 is the superior choice.
Better than reddit and discord serving as some of the big hubs of video game discussion, certainly.
Does anyone have a solution to this extremely specific problem that the person reading this is googling right now?
EDIT: Nvm, fixed it thanks to the user that PM'd me. Mods, lock this thread please.
>search on google for a problem
>find some old forum
>they upload a pic or something for the solution
>"you need to be logged in to see the image"
>or the image is gone
So many fricking times
>follow the pic steps bro
>imageshack
>photobucket
>photobucket now holds your old pics for ransom
Now imgur too
none of these image hosts ever seem to last more than 5 or 6 years
Meanwhile on Ganker
>What are some games where you move a character by pressing buttons on a controller??
>Does anyone have a solution to this extremely specific problem that the person reading this is googling right now?
>first reply is a facebook tier joke
>exsqueeze me?
>rest of the thread is people trying to 1-up the "joker"
it's not that forums were better it's just that people generally cared more about the shit they were posting back then. if there's one good thing to be said about SA it at least fostered creativity by having shit like photoshop phridays happen regularly
unfortunately the 10bux had the side effect of turning the whole site into a gas chamber
Forums were better because you had choice. If one forum is shit you can go to one of the other dozen forums. Now your options for discussion are reddit, Ganker, or discord. Don't like any of those? Too bad get fricked.
>reddit, Ganker, or discord
Ironically, both Reddit and Discord offer multiple places with the same discussion subject by design, with subs and servers that users can make themselves. Only Ganker confines you to boards that admins decided to make. Want to discuss single player games that aren't strategies or RPGs and came out after 2005? Get fricked, go compete with dozens of shitposters working at lighting speed to burrow everything else and watch your thread archive before 10 posts.
All subreddits are exactly the same.
See
Discord sucks because it makes it difficult to find useful information, long thought out posts are disincentivized by the chat room format and it has a dogshit UI. Not to mention most public discords are run by troons/furries.
>it makes it difficult to find useful information
Worse, there's no archive. It's just dead content, a year zero fan's wet dream.
The imageboard that allowed user creation was taken over by glows and run into the ground. Really, as along as ``anti-terror'' legislation is on the books, they'll continue to terrorize us, and snuff out any alternatives.
>unfortunately the 10bux had the side effect of turning the whole site into a gas chamber
The 10 bucks weren't the problem, as a matter of fact I believe it made the site better because it kept all the kids away, what killed it were the bets, back in the day people could say shit like "If I don't lose at least 30 pounds by the end of the month the mods can ban me!" and they would actually get permabanned if they didn't accomplished it, so guess what happened in 2008? a lot of republicans said "If Obama wins the elections the mods can ban me!" and they all got banned, so the only people left, or most of the people left there were from the left, now I'm not saying this was the sole reason the website went to shit, but it did contribute in Lowtax not liking his own website and refusing to do anything with it
Oh no, Lowtax didn't like the site anymore?
Good. Frick him. Lowtax sucked ass and I'm glad he killed himself.
>Use the search function
>Search function is always shit
>You must register in order to search
>You must register in order to view these download links
Forums are bad because mods become almighty pillars guiding the culture instead of the faceless, anonymous enforcers they are here.
>you have been banned for [unenforced stalinist catch-all, like trolling outside of /b/]
And it's so much better than whatever power-tripping forum homosexuals did
I remember a forum mod publicly announcing in a thread that I was going to be banned for a week.
I actually agreed to the punishment because it was warranted.
The powertripping homosexual must have wanted me to beg because he started acting pissy and extended my ban to a month.
Forums were full of attention gays and power tripping mods.
Nothing of value was lost.
Ganker (image macro site) is the best format, hands down. All you homosexuals mean nothing to me, I'm not going to be bombarded all day by some homosexual I pissed off, I don't have to worry about having a stigma in a thread or anyone else.
Every thread, clean slate. Hell, I can make a post and then subsequently argue against myself. If everyone turns on me, I can just join the crowd in kicking me. It's fun, and it makes discussion easy to understand and follow, at least for me.
I've been on Ganker for like 15 years, something like that, and I love it. You guys have moronic takes, amazing taste in games while also having the worst taste since there's hundreds of you guys posting shit. It's great, video games
This. In one thread we might have a vicious disagreement where we're calling each other Black folk and homosexuals and all sorts of things you'd get banned for elsewhere, and then the next we might be calling each other based over our shared love of an obscure favorite.
>all those forums where they host the same shitty broken fix because they wanted their share of new sign-ups + adfly link converter bucks
/v/ermin never really got into forum culture and get prickly when they encounter gatekeeping. Forums are better for specialist discussion. Ganker is a cesspit but it's better for general discussion. When you find a good forum, where people hold some standards for posting and manners. It absolutely BTFO of Ganker discussion. About the only advantage here is you can be completely sociopathic and nobody will permaban your account.
You don't have to be completely sociopathic. You'll get banned from forums for far less than that.
I have to admit it's funny when you're elsewhere on the internet and you see some moron forget his powerlevel and act like he's on Ganker and just get utterly fricked for it. I still hate all the israelitery of things like karma and updoots but I can't deny how satisfying it is to see that lol
There's a documentary about Ganker on Netflix right now, powerlevel-kun
thinly veiled troony
Forums are the only places for good specific discussion. anonymous threads like these can be momentary fun but then they're gone like a fart in the wind, discord fricking sucks unless it's a niche thing with like 10 people, reddit is fricking useless with how their comment system works
I still use one forum site because of its database, and the main mod is a powertripping homosexual who tries to unilaterally force changes that even the site owner and other mods don't agree with. at least Ganker jannies don't (usually) try to reverse decade-old rules
they don't have to they barely follow them in the first place
eh. forums have the same problems as reddit. i.e. dicksucker powerhungry mods who want to impose their expectations on discourse. sometimes they just frick with you because they don't even like you for whatever reason. frick 'em, and their little sycophants. frick that shit bro. it's gay. it's homo. it's homogay, if you will.
plus rules rules rules. I don't a huge list of rules to abide by. frick off with that shit. of course, with a more controlled environment, you can expect to have better discourse, but at the cost of the freedom to say Black person Black person Black person and other such things that they don't like. plus, if neogay is anything, it's an example of what happens when a hivemind prevents actual discourse, no matter how "toxic" or not.
Said no one ever.
That doesn't excuse the cancer and obtuse bullshit that is discord, for example.
The only good forum nowadays is Kiwifarms
have a nice day prostitute
The only people that don't like Kiwifarms are troonys and Ralph
Not that anon but from what I've seen of them, they're seriously deranged/unhinged people. It's basically cancel culture for incels if everyone was on the verge of becoming a mass shooter.
>if everyone was on the verge of becoming a mass shooter
In your wet dreams fedboi
The site prohibits interacting with the people being talked of in real life and all of the things they get are from things that were posted by the person being talked about, they only archive information and talk about said information, the people who swat and send pizzas to the people's house are from other websites and discords, and lastly most of the people who have a thread in the forum have it for a reason and usually deserved to be mocked
But they are the ones who take that information and compile it in an easy to read format. Nobody else does that, and by israelitesh's own admission it's not a necessary part of the thread, they just do it because they can.
That's because he doesn't want to police what people can and can't do unless it's illegal, compiling information isn't illegal
That's one of it's issues, the moralgays
I shouldn't have to tell you that something being legal doesn't make it okay.
Oh but that's subjective isn't it? what's good or bad, deserved or undeserved changes from place to place, from website to website, some people thinks is immoral to dox and other people think is ok to do so, you can have a problem with it, but nothing should happened to the website because it's not illegal
The hilarious expansion of what's considered "dox" is another good one. Glows are really obsessed with asymmetry
Agreed, it's a good thing I never said it's an illegal website and should be shut down, I just said its userbase are piranha and look for the slightest sign of weakness or hint of someone's location for no other reason than because they can.
In short they're buttholes, and make a good chunk of Ganker look like soup kitchen workers by comparison.
Yeah and those people who think it's okay are subhumans, including you.
It's pathetic at worst. They definitely don't need fed attention, but those homosexuals have needed enemies since islamists fell off the docket
I only really know of them because of the homeless namegay Lambright who lives in a shed because they swatted him like 100 times or some shit. I think the guy ended up getting arrested for it too. That type of behavior seems like the furthest thing from being moral to me. It's seriously pretty deranged behavior at least IMO.
Well, he was apparently the kind of guy who says "the israelites did 9/11" attached to a post with his face and full name, he also tried running for president and shilled his website and streams on kiwifarms for some fricking reason, the swat wasn't directed by kiwifarms
So you're saying it's mossad?
The guy that did it was from kiwifarms though and was a high profile swatter. He was called torswats or some shit. There were news articles about it.
I dunno, they usually act more surprised when this sort of thing happens, also all news media blame kiwifarms for any swatting by default
And this Torsaw guy? he wasn't from the forum, he was doing his shit on telegram
Dunno I've only lurked there a few times and the posters come off as irrationally angry and obsessed with people they're supposed to laughing at
>the people who swat and send pizzas to the people's house are from other websites and discords
It always works like this. One imageboard was shut down for some turrist posting on it, yet he had already posted the same thing on Facebook. I don't think anyone's shutting down Facebook, let alone the fact that anyone could have just reposted it.
it's funny how facebook would be shutdown if it weren't for all the money it generates
You're mentally ill stalkers and literally no one outside your homosexual hugbox likes you.
yeah and this site prohibits racism and trolling too lol
homie, they are all weird teenagers who think internet is their lives. I can't imagine someone past 20 being so engaged in monitoring people on the web
>other websites and discords
And the other websites is kiwifarm and kiwifarm discord
I wonder what would happen if someone were to dox those kiwifarmers as what they are with full images, personal data and locations.
They would shit their pants as they would get clobbered to death in a few weeks tops.
I've never used it, but I never liked ED, so it's not my thing.
It's a gossiping forum so you aren't missing all that much
The only good forum nowadays is Something Awful. Unironically.
those homies are gonna eat each other alive
helldump 2.0
i post here i get anons telling me to kill myself and someone calling me a troony because he forgot to take his antipsychotics that morning
i post there i have the eyes of not just insane trannies trying to ruin someone's day but the userbase of piranhas looking to tell the world i live in 12 Appletree Boulevard, Bismarck, ND as well as everything about me and my family including the birth mark my 6 year old niece has on her shoulder.
>hurr the images you use can be searched by filename and hash
You mean the images on an imageboard? The ones that are saved and reposted constantly as part of the site's ethos?
Kiwifarms is fun to lurk, occasionally useful to post in, and nothing the frick else.
You are delusional. Kiwifarms is a den of snakes primed to cannibalise each other.
Whatever you need to tell yourself subhuman.
It's true anon, it's been proven time and time again that the only people that actively hate the kiwifarms are usually subhumans that have done something bad and posted it on the internet, it's like people who are against e-girlcon, they always end up being actual pedophiles
You realize kiwifarms hates e-girl, right?
Yes, and hypocrites for that
>You are delusional. Kiwifarms is a den of snakes primed to cannibalise each other
Ya that’s the one thing most people don’t realize about KF and Josh. If the site is going to fall it’s going to be due to some internal strife, not cause of keffals or some government telling them to shut it down. I’ve already seen the seeds of it being planted. Look at how Josh handled the DSP shit that happened a while back with him pissing off posters there just for telling them to ease it down a little. Hell I’ve seen and heard from the jannies first hand that they are either afraid of Josh or just downright resent him.
>t. a current KF janny
>kiwitards
They are some of the most derange gays to exist. They are worst than the autistic kid they make fun of, they probably do the same shit or worse but they don't film it innocently.
>say unpopular opinion on Reddit
>negative Karma
>you are now unable to use the site
more like
>join reddit
>see factually wrong claim used for pushing some stupid agenda
>try to comment on it
>"your account must be 10y old and have at least 100k karma to post here"
>get messaged by automoderator
>"because you have been posting messages in /r/funny youve been automatically banned in the following 17 subreddits:..."
>make a proper comment not breaking any rules, is respectful and on-topic
>"uhmm I looked at your history and you posted something positive about some right-wing issue 4 years ago!"
>every reply and comment is about this instead of the topic now
It's the same problem as flags
Only place I check other than this cesspool is a boomer hobby forum where pretty much everyone is nice and stays off topic.
Smartphones killed internet discussions.
I've been using Discord for eight years now.
this but unironically
zesty ass homie
>that user who does nothing but drop snide one-liners in every thread
dilate troony
yes
updated
Where's /wsr/?
vtubers are yuge
Not really, to give you perspective the most viewed vtuber gets around 10k ccv per stream meanwhile the top guys get around 50k ccv at a minimum
I meant the board
Its crazy. I didn't think vtubbers would be this big thing as I figured people had self respect but god was I wrong.
>stormhomosexuals
>ritualposters
>morons
>parasocial seamonkeys
>fappening tourists
it's so over
>/misc/ bogeyman isn't re-
I miss those forums where they had some kind of imaginary economy that granted you weird shit or some sort of clan system where it worked like a lite browser game
It was crypto and metaverse before they were a thing...
gb2gaia
False. I was on the old Bethesda forums and it was just everyone sucking off the user's with the most posts while everyone else was ignored or flamed
I honestly don't remember anything of the sorts on the forums I frequented. I remember that having more posts gave you a cool emblem or avatar frame or a colourful nickname and that's all I needed to want to post more.
Yea I don't know where this shit is coming from. Like every forum I ever went to, I literally never had someone pull post counts or some other shit on me. I've had
and other dicks but there were easily some hobbyist forums on aviation and guns that I wish hadn't been killed by mega sites like Ganker or reddit- it was way more fun than dealing with ironylords or people farming karma.
Bethesda forums were exceptionally bad. The Elder Scrolls lore board was pure reddit, and the mods were all boomers who banned at the drop of a hat
>quality control is a bad thing
only if what you produce is substandard
lmao @ this glowcope.If you're following the law you don't have to worry about warrantless wiretapping :^)
thank you for confirming that you never passed a standards test and are in fact low quality.
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PLEASE CARRIAGE RETURN
homosexuals complaining about their threads dying, there's a way to format Ganker threads in a way that baits people, i'm not going to tell you my secret but i don't think i ever had a thread not going over 400 replies
Lurk more and learn to post Black folk
create ragebait threads that are exclusively posted in by underages and bots isn't a good thing moron
forums were cancer
>nvm I fixed it
>PM'd you the fix 🙂
>USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION INSTEAD OF OPENING NEW THREADS. ALSO NO NECRO-BUMPING!!!!1!
>search doesn't allow regexes
>a gorillion quoted posts instead of a simple tree view
>you can only display 10~20 posts per page
>signature whoring
ironically enough, imageboards seem to work better, excepting the ephemerality.
Banned for necroing threads.
Also the question has already been answered, use the search function.
The question was not answered.
Does anyone actually say that? Ganker was literally born due to people hating forum culture in the same way people nowadays hate Reddit and Twitter. Please don't tell me people think this site is as old as Reddit and Twitter.
Ganker desperately needs something similar.
Manually filter all of the AI-generated filth and literal children spamming clickbait garbage from their youtube feed.
You used to be able to do this yourself by spamming gore in threads posted by morons, but now there's a captcha.
>Manually filter all of the AI-generated filth
You're a jokester I see.
I still don't understand why forum mods always got so ass hurt about necro posts. If the post is about the thing the thread is about why should it matter? I see this still on steam forums where someone has a problem with the game and posts in an old thread about it and the steam mod gets pissy and locks the thread without answering the question
People who become jannies do so because they have nothing better to do with their time. The vast majority of them are too worthless to get a job, ANY job. Their behavior makes sense as long as you remember this.
I dont know anyone who lived through the forums era ever thought it was superior to any of the options we have today because all the forums will be corrupted and taken by power hungry users sooner or later.
I'll just leave this here
Damn, April fools is late this year on Ganker.
Only kidding of course, Ganker is dead.
I thought I'd never see the day
Owari da
Ganker has become even more awful, but half of it is the fricking indian jeet mods themselves spamming their shitcoins
bros why is everything ending
i cant take it
I miss making a signature
>RPGCodex
>check their 2023 GOTY
>Jagged Alliance 3
B A S E D
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It really was a good game. I bet Cleve was seething about it.
Just block all mobile traffics and the problem will be solved
Where would they get their user data
Forums were for circlejerking homosexuals who wanted "cleaner" discussion than unmoderated Usenet groups. And they only got worse as the years went on.
YOU CAN'T JUST POST IN AN OLD TOPIC THAT IS RELEVANT TO YOUR CURRENT SITUATION IT'S NECRO NECRO STOP NECROING AAAAH
>Give us a week to get around to approving your shitpost
soijaks would die immediately
>shilling discord unironically in TYOOL 2024
revolt.chat you stupid c**ts
Are anonymous text/imageboards are the only places on the internet that allows for actual discussion?
This place isn't great but the alternatives are so much worse.
not for long, hiro is beta testing email verification requirements
For us yes, but I'm sure there are foreign sites with more lenient moderation. Progressive hysteria has done a number on the Occident
if this place was any good it would flood with homosexuals. your choices are open-access garbage, or gatekept quality (or the worst of both)
>some boards have overmoderation so bad that if you step out of line for a second the b& hammer comes down
>the rest are so unmoderated that shitposting drowns out actual conversation
what is the final solution to the moderation problem?
>what is the final solution to the moderation problem?
Make ever single jannie/mod action public and make it so that the users of that board can take action if they feel a ruling was unfair.
>giving up asymmetry
NO APPEALS
NO REFUNDS
Flirted
>tongue-in-cheeks he's not employed by discord
>shills the paid service exactly one post later
can't make this shit up
the spacing gave it away, nice replies though
>literal reddit spacing
>cant follow a basic conversation
Forums were better.
This is just a Ganker post with extra images
and everyone's a tripgay
Forums are better.
it's a tradeoff
here you get 100% unfiltered opinion on a topic, but with that comes mass-reply homosexuals, disingenuous homosexuals, spam homosexuals, trolls and (you) farming contrarians.
in general a forum is a more "pleasant" to browse, but also runs the risk of stuff you want to see getting filtered, or worse and incentive system that makes people just regurgitate popular opinions (like upvotes)
I'm not sure Ganker or forums are better, I don't think either has solved the post quality equation.
Forums are gay boring homosexual nerd shit.
homie you're on Ganker, everyone here is a gay boring homosexual nerd
well okay not boring, most of the time
stop necroing this thread, a fix as already been summited
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I apologize for my transgression, oh powerful one
*genuflects respectfully* ROFL
if the product is free your data is being sold to foot the cost.
god remember when web design had soul?
And wasn't hamstrung by 5MB of externally hosted bloat.js libs. Even the Flash sites you had to wait to load worked perfectly once they did, and had artistic merit.
modern web dev:
>we don't like how the DOM updates, so we're gonna build an entirely new DOM out of java-script so we can frick around with state in new and retarted ways.
>btw you're gonna need to load all this boilerplate every website you visit.
Arreat summit was one of the better looking webpages from that era. Most websites looked like ass with a bunch of obnoxious gifs spammed everywhere.
I was shocked to see it was still up and running
I figured they would have shut it down like a decade ago
90 trillion times better than any website from today.
only big problem is it doesn't scale on mobile.
>mobile
Mobile is the problem with the modern web.
>only big problem is it doesn't scale on mobile.
That's a pro.
Are you saying tables don't dynamically resize on mobile?
graphics, menus, and buttons don't. nothing worse than the menu on the side taking up 1/3 of your screen and obscuring the text below.
Serves you right for using mobile to begin with
homosexual.
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>here's the mod http://megaupload.com/3dfj039
>can you reup? it's broken. edit: nvm found a mirror
:honoursword:
It's not that the forums are better than what we have now, it's that the internet community during the 90s and 00s were far better.
Today, thanks to social networks, smartphones and the corporatization of the internet, we have several times more people than before. And the vast majority are subhuman morons.
I always liked how avatars and signatures let me filter out the shit posts.
schizos are so nice to use the same phrases over and over to let us filter them out in the same way. you know the kind, shit like "erictroony".
>tfw I know about the best gaming forum on the internet and it only has 50 users but I will never tell Ganker about it
They wouldn't like newbs regardless
RPG Codex mods simp for a troony prostitute who posts there.
v simps for crapcom troony who shills their games
its me, i am the troony prostitute that posts on rpgcodex
Hello Theodora
HI!
In fairness, there are mainstream secular sermons about them
It's basically a forum version of Ganker
RPGCodex has fallen
DorkUnderload is not my admin he sleeps with troony Theodora
billions must die.
>meanwhile on Ganker
>"everyone that criticizes Nintendo is Eric!"
isnt it just 1 person who calls everyone erictroony?
sup Barry
Pseudonymity attracts gays and pretentious pseuds, but anonymity attracts pedophiles and literal morons. I don't know which one is worse.
Before /trash/ ERP threads... there was Sonic Passion
Things don't change
i can see the shit-eating grin in my head
>dark blue text on black background
why.jpg
Surprised nobody mentioned Starmen, what a cancerous board filled with self absorbed autists. >Oh this thread/topic was already made by one guy 18 years ago and got 2 replies, it will never be discussed ever again, just go to one of the 2 active threads that are OC and /vg/ tier circlejerking inside-joke regurgitation
They were. I remember having long discussions with people over all types of games and learning something every time. At least on the forums I went on, people paid attention to what they were writing and tried to communicate. Meanwhile on Ganker I can post something innocuous, and then someone will go crazy and attack me based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the figure of speech I used or they misread a word. And I can't even tell if they just don't know english or they don't care.
More and more these past years I just write out a post, sighing, then cancelling the quick reply box. People here are like a level beyond stupid. You had morons on the internet before but they had logic to their madness. The thirdies here are typing whatever buzzword they think will make their post "cooler" or something.
Big downside to long-term posting on forums is, you know the users and everyone builds up a reputation. So you get the dynamic where you see some guy's name, and you already know what this post will contain, and then you just filter it out mentally. Then again, anon boards have that same issue. You see a trigger phrase and someone instantly becomes /misc/ or a troony or whatever, and you can instantly just ignore them. Not that you SHOULDN'T ignore trannies, of course.
yeah, its easier to ignore the morons on Ganker easier too. Gaming has become so stratified that you can tell a good thread on Ganker based on the game. Schizos and polgays wouldn't enter a klonoa thread, for example.
zoomers who weren't there and are desperate to put down anything they missed out on as a way to control their innate corpo-influenced FOMO and properly gatekept moron anons who were left out ITT trying to convince people forums were objectively shit across the board
forums, on average, were better; if you were there, it doesn't need explaining or rationalizing
If forums are much better, why aren't you posting on them right now instead? Hmmm?
>he isn't shitposting on 17 different websites at once for maximum dopamine farming
>Ganker isn't like other foru-
I pretend that I do not see it.
>allowed domains
It's so fricking over. I've told myself I'd leave so many times but haven't. I suspect this is it. I'm going to try and make a change. Get a RPGcodex account and bail on this shit hole. I only wish there were equivalents to my other interests as readily apparent as Codex. Some content on other boards is super obscure and you don't really find it elsewhere.
good luck anon, do come back and let us know how it goes. of course you'll be back. you're here forever™
>Imagine a world without israelites.
>How would the market and economy look like?
>A utopia?
A horrible life
Dystopian world
>Ganker is dying and the april fools event with shitcoin was an excuse to test it
Based. Reddit won
Go fash, no cash
ChatGPT post
Seething post
Post forums you still visit with some frequency
http://forums.sjgames.com/
https://www.dragonsfoot.org/
>Telling the legions of brazilians, pajeets, and other subhumans on this board about other places they can defile.
No
>the guy with the vegeta avatar, special red border, and early member designation
It's been 15+ years and I still envy the dude...
ore wa suupaa bejita da
OUR FUARKING ADMIN
I'm posting on RPG Codex right now, aside from the pig Ukies supporters, it's OK.
I hate forums as much as Discord. I prefer anonymous imageboards. I hate having a post history tied to an account just so some moron homosexual can e-stalk me. It's not for me.
Same.
Go frick yourself.
>NOOOO, Ganker MUST BE MY BASTION OF SHIT
uh yeah, you made a good point but I see that 15 years, 26 days, 5 minutes and 36 seconds ago you said "that's gay" which outs you as a homophobe. BTW I also was able to get your work location from your post history and I've notified your company that you make homophobic and probably racist comments online so expect to see HR on monday :).
EDIT: Thanks for the gold stranger
>I hate having a post history tied to an account just so some moron homosexual can e-stalk me.
I could only see that being a problem if you were a moron that gave out your email and personal information like most women online do, which had always been frowned upon back then so throw away accounts were always common. Not like now where you HAVE to give sites your phone number as well as your email.
Not to say I don't agree with you or anything. Anonymous imageboards were a god send.
/v/needs better mods
For me, it was animalcrossingcommunity
Doomworld is comfy and still very alive tbh
Doom is always comfy
Than discord? Yes. Than Ganker? No.
On one hand, I do kinda wish I had gotten into forums much earlier so I could experience that "tight knit" community feeling and be able to find all sorts of niche things for specific topics but on the other I prefer having the freedom to post about whatever topic-related thing or shitpost I damn well please that Ganker offers, find drama and gossip distasteful and I'm too much of a socially awkward loser that the mere idea of someone recognizing me or looking into whatever I post makes me feel all itchy and uncomfortable.
You can still experience all that with discord, dude
>You can still experience all that with discord, dude
You can, dumbass cat. Yeah the troony here and there might be annoying, but you have to deal with it and chill. You gotta remember those guys are just autistic geeks like the average Ganker poster.
If you're even slightly interested in making custom content for games, discussing the technical aspects of them, and just generally niche socially moronic topics, discord is the way to go. Ganker is fun, but too volatile and compromised.
>"tight knit" community feeling
that never existed. it was just a bunch of attention-whoring namegays. staff consisted of power-tripping losers who would ban you for stepping on the wrong person's toes.
the only good thing about forums was you could find useful info on certain topics (e.g. computer parts, game info, mods, etc.)
I loved trying to find a resolution to an issue and having to dig through 600 pages of "I have the same issue" and "works for me" only for the thread to be locked becasue the "solution was posted" even though it wasn't. Now I have a problem and I type "problem + reddit" and get an answer. You can leavbe off the reddit but then you get some article that despite being 20m paragraphs long says nothing at all or the support form where rajeet p[osts that he has 15 years of experience and gives the most basic troubleshooting and asks for a log even though the original post posted and log and says what they did.
leddit is absolute garbage. it was always bad as it was full of tech-illiterate morons, but it truly went to shit when they started purging stuff like gore, jailbait, wrongthink, etc.
the actual problem with the nu-internet is adsense farms and closed gardens like faceberg, which put up login walls. other than ~~*advertisers*~~, ~~*payment processors*~~ and ~~*banks*~~ censor everything with an iron fist. and then there are companies like cuckflare, which make self-hosting impossible.
if you get rid of the israeliness that pervades the internet, the tyrants' grip will weaken overnight and things will go back to the way they were in the late '80s/early '90s.
>and then there are companies like cuckflare, which make self-hosting impossible.
Can you explain this to me?
NTA but as far as I know cloudfare normally imposes harsh restrictions on content and often has issues with connectivity that people dislike.
DDos'ing websites rarely happened, every anon could have their own website about anything without being 'shut down'
Then Cloudfare popped up and DDOS becomes a billion times more common.
>Oy vey goyim, you DO want to pay your protection fees to us, right?
Do the maths.
Reddit is better than any social media platforms
There's more discussion on reddit then there is on other social media platforms. It's not the best but it's better than let's say Facebook where you have zero discussion and comments are basically impossible to find except the top ones.
>Da JOOS
>Raj posts the most basic troubleshooting steps
>Two more pages that are just people b***hing about Microsoft
>40 posts in, some dude named Mike posts some obscure solution that he found by just changing settings until something happened.
Every time.
Socially awkward or not, that's normal. Having your whole post history up to scrutiny is awful and stifles honest, uncensored discussion
>"tight knit" community
Unfortunately that didn't really exist. Imagine a less densely packed /vg/ and that's 95% of the traditional forum experience. Trust me, no one having any fricking idea who anyone else is makes for a better experience on the whole.
My most fondest memory will always be destroying some obscure anime forum that my friends became moderators for.
That's a little sad.
For me, it's necrobitching.
the only thing I really dislike about Ganker is how it's astroturfed to hell and back and the shills aren't even trying to be subtle about it
damn...i thought boomers said Diablo 2 was good...
You people don't deserve anonymous imageboards. You were mindbroken by social media to the point you try to assign personalities to posts with similar opinions or repeated messages You don't understand the concept of anonymous image board at all
Maybe you should stop being so predictable. Maybe you should stop using the exact same md5 or even filenames for your images going back 4 years or more. Maybe you should stop changing a couple pixels on these images once enough anons point out how many times you've posted. Maybe you should stop making yourself so pathetically easy to recognize.
But you won't, because your entire identity is dependent on what an ocean of piss thinks about you.
You're just proving his point lmao holy shit
The schizo hides behind the illusion of anonymity.
But the schizo cannot help but exhibit his abnormality, for all the world to see.
Hence the existence of KiwiFarms.
>The schizo hides behind the illusion of anonymity.
always funny when people think they are actually anonymous here when no one buys ads
Two (2).
>Schizo thinks everyone else is schizo
Or maybe he just likes an image you spastic KiwiBlack person.
Its most likely just the Chinese that are buck broken by Xi's brainwashing culture of obeying the leaders and never having any "wrong" thought = things i don't like = wrong!! Media is entertainment and what is entertaining to you is not to someone else.
That's why I find it funny when they freak out about muh Eric-troony. Shit was hilarious.
the codex is better than here, yes.
>forum about a game gets deleted or locked without notice because the main developer wanted to transition to discord instead
the state of Sven co-op
>gta sa rp server transitions to gta v
>shuts down the fourms with nearly a decade of posts and screenshots to make a new fourm
>dies anyways
>try to get help on discord
>get a helpful reply however, the user keeps talking about off topic shit like what they are eating along with every post they make
>"huh maybe its just this one autistic guy"
>notice this same trends on multiple Discord channels and servers
>visit other channels to talk about the subject
>nothing but users talking about off topic random shit
>try talking about something on topic
>post gets ignored
Discord is literally /vg/ as a service. How did we evolve past something worst than forums?
you tell me, nibba
this is why discords with "posting shit outside of its designated channel will be acted upon" rules are the best. keeps bullshit where it needs to be
>but i wanna discuss the politics of this game in the vidya channel
/ban
>all those tourists criticizing discord groups and niche forums
glass houses morons
pathetic that you think this place is any different, where mods treat Ganker as their personal discord channel
I miss forums
it's still around.
This site, THIS fricking site right here. If you ever want to show someone how bad forums could get, show them Gamefaqs's message boards. My god I could write a novel at how shitty this site's message boards is. The fricking balls their jannies have puts Ganker's jannies on a power trip to shame. If a user gets banned, every single post they made on every board will be removed, even if they were the topic creator for a few. Their opening posts will be gone but the topic will still stay up and all deleted post are of course hidden.
So say someone made a helpful guide on a certain message board and that same person got banned on another off topic section of the site. That helpful guide is now gone. Imagine entering a tread to a solution to a problem and the post was deleted because the user was banned elsewhere. Every time you try to look up information that's not in the text guides, the posts are deleted. This site's jannies have no shame at being buttholes.
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They really were though
we are reaching another dimension of contrary wow. we hating forums now Ganker?
>now
moron
>join a community moderated by homosexuals and tons of rules
>oh wow how can this terrible experience be happening to me wtffff
if you ever used blue-gartr, it was basically neogaf-lite and full of cliques
Forums are better when there are no power-hungry mods and circle of untouchable friends
Forums WERE better because they forced you to learn how to write, how to interact with others, and how to argue. Things that are sorely lacking from social media. And thus that has leaked into Ganker. Used to be that the people who came to Ganker were forum refugees, now they're social media refugees, and the quality of posts has plunged as a result.
Forum is an ancient greek tradition where philosophers/religious people/politicians/scientists and whatever would debate in the public, anything from ancient greek that was good is being eroded from society, lmao.
Whatever happened to Opa-Ages?
They were, zoomers are moronic.
Do you guys think half of today's problems when it comes to Ganker/forums etc or any social platform are a part of the overall change in internet culture?
The root cause is a change in who is actually online, including the change in internet culture. Smart phones mean that the majority of online content is no longer being generated by the sort of person who cares to sit at a desktop computer, which is bad enough - but as the third world comes online the entire internet begins to brown. One of the worst consequences of this is that everyone is ESL, and even those who think they're fluent can't understand basic words and phrases, and so every conversation here becomes an English language lesson. You can't discuss ideas online anymore, because you have to spend all your time just trying to explain the method by which ideas are conveyed. The entire internet has become a conversation with a heavily accented call center Indian. Pay attention to the arguments you see here, and how many of them are rooted in one anon misusing or misunderstanding words. It's every thread on every board.
Yeah for sure. I disagree with the phoneposter/ESL bogeyman (though they absolutely exist). It's underaged kids. They are literally everywhere now and they are literate and able to use the internet at younger ages than ever. I'm not saying there should be mandatory ID's but parents REALLY need to get better with this shit. I was on /d/ at 11.Imagine if some fricking kid found out about sturdy or /pag/.
And what kind of device do you think these kids are posting from?
Nintendo 3DS
Maybe I judged the children too harshly.
what's /pag/?
I cut my teeth on Forumplanet and have nostalgia for it, but in the grand scheme of things, forums were pretty lame
a site wide email auth would probably kill the site. so if that's the intent, it'd probably to kill the site in advance of november, and then hiro will "desperately" remove it afterward because it's still more useful alive. i'm sure feds will study analytics to see where everyone disperses to
only moronic boomer homosexuals preferred forum shit. fricking deprecated tech
forums are usually the same, because they are paid for via google ads.
Crossposters ruined codex forever.
i have the same problem as the original poster did. could you, or anyone else, explain how to fix this problem?
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